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Static pixel art displays 'i' and 'u' characters flanking a red heart symbol on black background.

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Static pixel art displays 'i' and 'u' characters flanking a red heart symbol on black background.

Static pixel art displays 'i' and 'u' characters flanking a red heart symbol on black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered heart between two 'i's
  • bottom-aligned 'u' below heart
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text: left vertical 'i', right vertical 'i'. Centered above the bottom-aligned white 'u' is a solid red pixelated heart shape. The heart has an open top-left corner and connects to the 'i's via shared pixels at the top of the 'u'. All elements are static, rendered in 8-bit style with no animation or additional details.

Description

  • Static pixel art displays 'i' and 'u' characters flanking a red heart symbol on black background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200711180909551275225993

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i u i heart icon
  • red pixelated heart text
  • black background white red pixels
  • static i u i layout

Objects

  • heart symbol

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • i
  • u

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white text
  • red heart symbol
  • pixelated art
  • static image
  • i u i layout
  • heart has open corner

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200711180909551275225993
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:58 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
182 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/39/3932c885aba84b7f75181ab9ee76726d920e9e42b455c20776f856f1f19ce26a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:58 UTC
Archive ID
3932c885aba84b7f
SHA-256
3932c885aba84b7f75181ab9ee76726d920e9e42b455c20776f856f1f19ce26a
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:43 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.175017

OpenAI category scores

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Static pixel art displays 'i' and 'u' characters flanking a red heart symbol on black background.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 19:49 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,365 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,148, response 627

Review tags

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  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
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  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
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  • text characters (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • red

Composition

  • centered heart between two 'i's
  • bottom-aligned 'u' below heart
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text: left vertical 'i', right vertical 'i'. Centered above the bottom-aligned white 'u' is a solid red pixelated heart shape. The heart has an open top-left corner and connects to the 'i's via shared pixels at the top of the 'u'. All elements are static, rendered in 8-bit style with no animation or additional details.

Description

  • Static pixel art displays 'i' and 'u' characters flanking a red heart symbol on black background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200711180909551275225993

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i u i heart icon
  • red pixelated heart text
  • black background white red pixels
  • static i u i layout

Objects

  • heart symbol

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit
  • static

Subjects

  • text characters
  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • i
  • u

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white text
  • red heart symbol
  • pixelated art
  • static image
  • i u i layout
  • heart has open corner
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Full source records (1)

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016) (internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016)

Kind
local-directory
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Type
Internet Archive tar preservation of the FranksIcons shared buddy-icon store
Title
200711180909551275225993
Archive entry
200711180909551275225993.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:58 UTC
Rights
mixed anonymous, fan, commercial, and copyrighted imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
large cross-sectional user-shared AIM buddy-icon collection spanning personal identity, fandom, music, humor, relationships, moods, holidays, and internet culture

Original: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200711180909551275225993.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200711180909551275225993.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016