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Pixelated blue text reads "I love gary" with a red heart symbol above the 'I', and a second identical text block to the right.

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Pixelated blue text reads "I love gary" with a red heart symbol above the 'I', and a second identical text block to the right.

Pixelated blue text reads "I love gary" with a red heart symbol above the 'I', and a second identical text block to the right. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Arch…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • none

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; static image.

Composition

  • two identical text blocks
  • centered heart above left 'I'
  • black background

Dense Caption

Black background. Two identical pixelated blue text blocks: "I love gary" with a heart symbol replacing the 'o' in 'love', and two '3's after 'gary'. Above the left 'I' is a red pixelated heart symbol. The right text block is identical to the left. Both text blocks are vertically aligned. The heart symbol is positioned above the left 'I'. The text uses a blocky, low-resolution font. The heart symbol is composed of red pixels. The '3's are pixelated blue. The 'I' is a vertical blue pixel block. The 'love' text is blue. The 'gary' text is blue. The heart symbol is red. The background is black. The text is horizontally centered. The heart symbol is centered above the left 'I'.

Description

  • Pixelated blue text reads "I love gary" with a red heart symbol above the 'I', and a second identical text block to the right.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red heart blue text black background
  • love gary heart 33
  • pixelated text two identical blocks
  • heart replaces o in love

Objects

  • heart symbol

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • I
  • love
  • gary
  • 33

Wordwall

  • red heart symbol
  • blue text
  • black background
  • pixelated font
  • two identical text blocks
  • heart replaces 'o' in 'love'
  • two '3's after 'gary'
  • vertical blue 'I'
  • centered heart
  • centered text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200912211530481372714207
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/3c/3c5ca9ac907fd980f7f094dfc2f1880a93598db58e733013af7129ce76dac25c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 UTC
Archive ID
3c5ca9ac907fd980
SHA-256
3c5ca9ac907fd980f7f094dfc2f1880a93598db58e733013af7129ce76dac25c
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:46 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.133233

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated blue text reads "I love gary" with a red heart symbol above the 'I', and a second identical text block to the right.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 21:33 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,443 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,144, response 776

Review tags

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  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • none (other, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • none

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; static image.

Colors

  • red
  • blue
  • black

Composition

  • two identical text blocks
  • centered heart above left 'I'
  • black background

Dense Caption

Black background. Two identical pixelated blue text blocks: "I love gary" with a heart symbol replacing the 'o' in 'love', and two '3's after 'gary'. Above the left 'I' is a red pixelated heart symbol. The right text block is identical to the left. Both text blocks are vertically aligned. The heart symbol is positioned above the left 'I'. The text uses a blocky, low-resolution font. The heart symbol is composed of red pixels. The '3's are pixelated blue. The 'I' is a vertical blue pixel block. The 'love' text is blue. The 'gary' text is blue. The heart symbol is red. The background is black. The text is horizontally centered. The heart symbol is centered above the left 'I'.

Description

  • Pixelated blue text reads "I love gary" with a red heart symbol above the 'I', and a second identical text block to the right.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Mood

  • affectionate
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red heart blue text black background
  • love gary heart 33
  • pixelated text two identical blocks
  • heart replaces o in love

Objects

  • heart symbol

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky

Subjects

  • text
  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • I
  • love
  • gary
  • 33

Wordwall

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  • blue text
  • black background
  • pixelated font
  • two identical text blocks
  • heart replaces 'o' in 'love'
  • two '3's after 'gary'
  • vertical blue 'I'
  • centered heart
  • centered text
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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
200912211530481372714207
Archive entry
200912211530481372714207.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 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#200912211530481372714207.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200912211530481372714207.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016