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Pixelated text 'i love alex <33' on cyan background with purple heart icon below, two identical frames side-by-side.

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Pixelated text 'i love alex <33' on cyan background with purple heart icon below, two identical frames side-by-side.

Pixelated text 'i love alex <33' on cyan background with purple heart icon below, two identical frames side-by-side. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Franks…

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Mood

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Source terms

Composition

  • centered text block
  • heart icon below text
  • two identical side-by-side arrangements

Dense Caption

Cyan background displays pixelated black text: top row lowercase 'i', second row 'love', third row 'alex', fourth row '<33'. Below the text block, a small purple pixelated heart icon appears centered horizontally. Two identical visual arrangements are positioned side-by-side with no visible differences between them.

Description

  • Pixelated text 'i love alex <33' on cyan background with purple heart icon below, two identical frames side-by-side.

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
  • 20090513130938378002538

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i love alex <33 cyan purple heart
  • pixelated text cyan background
  • two identical frames i love alex
  • <33 heart icon cyan

Objects

  • heart icon

Subjects

  • heart icon

Visible Text

  • i
  • love
  • alex
  • <33

Wordwall

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  • pixelated black text
  • i love alex <33
  • purple heart icon
  • two identical frames

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090513130938378002538
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:58 UTC

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GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
803 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:58 UTC
Archive ID
421bf337a2b68c8e
SHA-256
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Assessed
August 15, 2026 at 21:16 UTC
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Pixelated text 'i love alex <33' on cyan background with purple heart icon below, two identical frames side-by-side.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 09:37 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,547 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,148, response 596

Review tags

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  • purple (color, 0.80)
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  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • black
  • purple

Composition

  • centered text block
  • heart icon below text
  • two identical side-by-side arrangements

Dense Caption

Cyan background displays pixelated black text: top row lowercase 'i', second row 'love', third row 'alex', fourth row '<33'. Below the text block, a small purple pixelated heart icon appears centered horizontally. Two identical visual arrangements are positioned side-by-side with no visible differences between them.

Description

  • Pixelated text 'i love alex <33' on cyan background with purple heart icon below, two identical frames side-by-side.

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
  • 20090513130938378002538

Mood

  • affectionate
  • playful

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  • pixelated text cyan background
  • two identical frames i love alex
  • <33 heart icon cyan

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  • heart icon

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  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • digital art

Subjects

  • text
  • heart icon

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  • i
  • love
  • alex
  • <33

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • pixelated black text
  • i love alex <33
  • purple heart icon
  • two identical frames
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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
20090513130938378002538
Archive entry
20090513130938378002538.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:58 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#20090513130938378002538.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090513130938378002538.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016