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Pixelated text and a pink heart symbol on a black background, with two identical static frames showing the same content.

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Pixelated text and a pink heart symbol on a black background, with two identical static frames showing the same content.

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • left-aligned text
  • single line of text with heart symbol
  • two identical frames

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text reading "i love" followed by a pink heart symbol, then "u", "carson", and "1/6/09" in white pixelated text. Two identical static frames show the same content; no visible animation changes. The heart symbol is bright pink, distinct from the white text. The text uses a retro digital font style. The heart symbol is positioned immediately after "i love" and before "u". The date "1/6/09" is the last line of text. All text is left-aligned.

Description

  • Pixelated text and a pink heart symbol on a black background, with two identical static frames showing the same content.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i love u carson 1/6/09
  • pink heart text
  • pixelated i love u
  • 1/6/09 carson
  • retro digital text
  • black background white text
  • i love u heart
  • carson 1/6/09

Objects

  • heart symbol

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • i love
  • u
  • carson
  • 1/6/09

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • pink heart symbol
  • i love u
  • carson
  • 1/6/09
  • retro digital font
  • left-aligned text
  • two identical frames
  • no animation

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090121125703979895130
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:50 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
256 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/3a/3aab63742fdd0ddb20a1f0c5f6064931dd257c146a2c736e2c7463c1e845ce34.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:50 UTC
Archive ID
3aab63742fdd0ddb
SHA-256
3aab63742fdd0ddb20a1f0c5f6064931dd257c146a2c736e2c7463c1e845ce34
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:45 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.078213

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text and a pink heart symbol on a black background, with two identical static frames showing the same content.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 19:24 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,193 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,144, response 667

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • personal (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • pink

Composition

  • left-aligned text
  • single line of text with heart symbol
  • two identical frames

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text reading "i love" followed by a pink heart symbol, then "u", "carson", and "1/6/09" in white pixelated text. Two identical static frames show the same content; no visible animation changes. The heart symbol is bright pink, distinct from the white text. The text uses a retro digital font style. The heart symbol is positioned immediately after "i love" and before "u". The date "1/6/09" is the last line of text. All text is left-aligned.

Description

  • Pixelated text and a pink heart symbol on a black background, with two identical static frames showing the same content.

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

Mood

  • affectionate
  • personal

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i love u carson 1/6/09
  • pink heart text
  • pixelated i love u
  • 1/6/09 carson
  • retro digital text
  • black background white text
  • i love u heart
  • carson 1/6/09

Objects

  • heart symbol

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • text
  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • i love
  • u
  • carson
  • 1/6/09

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • pink heart symbol
  • i love u
  • carson
  • 1/6/09
  • retro digital font
  • left-aligned text
  • two identical frames
  • no animation
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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
20090121125703979895130
Archive entry
20090121125703979895130.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:50 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#20090121125703979895130.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090121125703979895130.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016