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Pixelated white text and symbols on black background with heart symbol above 'luv' text.

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Pixelated white text and symbols on black background with heart symbol above 'luv' text.

Pixelated white text and symbols on black background with heart symbol above 'luv' text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, L…

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Source terms

Composition

  • centered text
  • vertical alignment
  • top-to-bottom layout

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text and symbols. Top row: lowercase 'i', heart symbol (pixelated outline), lowercase 'i'. Second row: 'luv' in lowercase. Third row: 'austin.<3' with 'austin' in lowercase, period, and '<3' symbol. Fourth row: 'A.A.F.' in uppercase. Fifth row: '10*6*09' with asterisks. All text and symbols are rendered in a low-resolution pixel art style.

Description

  • Pixelated white text and symbols on black background with heart symbol above 'luv' text.

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
  • 20091007041149641987335
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • austin <3
  • austin luv
  • austin 10*6*09
  • austin A.A.F.
  • luv austin
  • austin <3 10*6*09
  • austin <3 A.A.F.
  • austin luv 10*6*09

Visible Text

  • i
  • luv
  • austin.<3
  • A.A.F.
  • 10*6*09

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • heart symbol
  • austin.<3
  • A.A.F.
  • 10*6*09
  • lowercase 'i'
  • lowercase 'luv'
  • pixelated outline
  • asterisks

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20091007041149641987335
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
265 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/40/40cc732b451913b87076953b9afb50a776b36f8f9e268fdaaf1f65034946332a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 UTC
Archive ID
40cc732b451913b8
SHA-256
40cc732b451913b87076953b9afb50a776b36f8f9e268fdaaf1f65034946332a
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:51 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.073296

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated white text and symbols on black background with heart symbol above 'luv' text.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 18:46 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,771 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,146, response 735

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • monochrome (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white

Composition

  • centered text
  • vertical alignment
  • top-to-bottom layout

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text and symbols. Top row: lowercase 'i', heart symbol (pixelated outline), lowercase 'i'. Second row: 'luv' in lowercase. Third row: 'austin.<3' with 'austin' in lowercase, period, and '<3' symbol. Fourth row: 'A.A.F.' in uppercase. Fifth row: '10*6*09' with asterisks. All text and symbols are rendered in a low-resolution pixel art style.

Description

  • Pixelated white text and symbols on black background with heart symbol above 'luv' text.

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
  • 20091007041149641987335
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • austin <3
  • austin luv
  • austin 10*6*09
  • austin A.A.F.
  • luv austin
  • austin <3 10*6*09
  • austin <3 A.A.F.
  • austin luv 10*6*09

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • monochrome

Visible Text

  • i
  • luv
  • austin.<3
  • A.A.F.
  • 10*6*09

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • heart symbol
  • austin.<3
  • A.A.F.
  • 10*6*09
  • lowercase 'i'
  • lowercase 'luv'
  • pixelated outline
  • asterisks
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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
20091007041149641987335
Archive entry
20091007041149641987335.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 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#20091007041149641987335.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20091007041149641987335.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016