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Pixelated text and symbols on black background with red heart animation.

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Pixelated text and symbols on black background with red heart animation.

Pixelated text and symbols on black background with red heart animation. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2000s to Mid…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • heart pulses/flickers

Animation Summary

  • Heart pulses/flickers while text remains static.

Composition

  • centered text blocks
  • heart above text

Dense Caption

Black background displays purple pixelated text "I LOVE YOU <3" in four lines. A red pixelated heart symbol appears above the text, positioned between two identical copies of the same text block. The heart is animated to pulse or flicker while the static text remains unchanged. All elements are rendered in a retro 8-bit style with distinct purple and red color blocks.

Description

  • Pixelated text and symbols on black background with red heart animation.

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 YOU <3 pixelated
  • red heart animation purple text
  • 8-bit I LOVE YOU icon
  • <3 emoticon retro style

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • I
  • LOVE
  • YOU
  • <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • <3 emoticon

Wordwall

  • black background
  • purple pixelated text
  • red pixelated heart
  • I LOVE YOU <3
  • two identical text copies
  • retro 8-bit style
  • heart animation

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090507124403941092770
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
229 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/40/401b1c1558f4d7682240c0c7fd5e0baf2a00e561ad079f1935c69aa07abf0938.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 UTC
Archive ID
401b1c1558f4d768
SHA-256
401b1c1558f4d7682240c0c7fd5e0baf2a00e561ad079f1935c69aa07abf0938
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:50 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.089526

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text and symbols on black background with red heart animation.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 09:06 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,592 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,146, response 592

Review tags

  • heart pulses flickers (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • 3 emoticon (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • heart pulses/flickers

Animation

  • heart pulses/flickers

Animation Summary

  • Heart pulses/flickers while text remains static.

Colors

  • black
  • purple
  • red

Composition

  • centered text blocks
  • heart above text

Dense Caption

Black background displays purple pixelated text "I LOVE YOU <3" in four lines. A red pixelated heart symbol appears above the text, positioned between two identical copies of the same text block. The heart is animated to pulse or flicker while the static text remains unchanged. All elements are rendered in a retro 8-bit style with distinct purple and red color blocks.

Description

  • Pixelated text and symbols on black background with red heart animation.

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
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • I LOVE YOU <3 pixelated
  • red heart animation purple text
  • 8-bit I LOVE YOU icon
  • <3 emoticon retro style

Objects

  • <3 emoticon

Style

  • pixelated
  • 8-bit
  • retro

Subjects

  • text
  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • I
  • LOVE
  • YOU
  • <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • <3 emoticon

Wordwall

  • black background
  • purple pixelated text
  • red pixelated heart
  • I LOVE YOU <3
  • two identical text copies
  • retro 8-bit style
  • heart 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
20090507124403941092770
Archive entry
20090507124403941092770.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 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#20090507124403941092770.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090507124403941092770.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016