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Pixelated text and symbols on black background with one frame showing a heart symbol above 'Alex' while the other shows plain text.

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Pixelated text and symbols on black background with one frame showing a heart symbol above 'Alex' while the other shows plain text.

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • heart symbol appears in left frame only

Animation Summary

  • Heart symbol appears above 'Alex' in one frame while absent in the other.

Composition

  • two side-by-side text blocks
  • left block has heart above 'Alex'
  • right block lacks heart

Dense Caption

Black background displays white pixelated text. Left side: 'Alex' at top, below it 'i Luv you', then '12-16-07'. Above 'Alex' is a pixelated heart outline. Right side: identical text layout but without the heart symbol above 'Alex'. Both sides share same font style and spacing.

Description

  • Pixelated text and symbols on black background with one frame showing a heart symbol above 'Alex' while the other shows plain 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • heart alex i luv you 12-16-07
  • alex i luv you 12-16-07 heart
  • pixelated text black background white
  • two side-by-side text blocks

Objects

  • heart symbol

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • Alex
  • i Luv you
  • 12-16-07

Visually Supported Entities

  • Alex

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • heart symbol
  • i Luv you
  • 12-16-07
  • Alex

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200801081737221336149490
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:09 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
244 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/4c/4c801a5979503a8c981861d665d74df32e191ba43c2087fee6f1e948b558b433.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:09 UTC
Archive ID
4c801a5979503a8c
SHA-256
4c801a5979503a8c981861d665d74df32e191ba43c2087fee6f1e948b558b433
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:16 UTC
Run
1033
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.081676

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text and symbols on black background with one frame showing a heart symbol above 'Alex' while the other shows plain text.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 08:54 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,351 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,149, response 630

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • sentimental (mood, 0.80)
  • heart symbol appears in left frame only (other, 0.80)
  • monochrome (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • heart symbol appears in left frame only

Animation Summary

  • Heart symbol appears above 'Alex' in one frame while absent in the other.

Colors

  • black
  • white

Composition

  • two side-by-side text blocks
  • left block has heart above 'Alex'
  • right block lacks heart

Dense Caption

Black background displays white pixelated text. Left side: 'Alex' at top, below it 'i Luv you', then '12-16-07'. Above 'Alex' is a pixelated heart outline. Right side: identical text layout but without the heart symbol above 'Alex'. Both sides share same font style and spacing.

Description

  • Pixelated text and symbols on black background with one frame showing a heart symbol above 'Alex' while the other shows plain 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • affectionate
  • sentimental

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • heart alex i luv you 12-16-07
  • alex i luv you 12-16-07 heart
  • pixelated text black background white
  • two side-by-side text blocks

Objects

  • heart symbol

Style

  • pixelated
  • monochrome

Subjects

  • text
  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • Alex
  • i Luv you
  • 12-16-07

Visually Supported Entities

  • Alex

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • heart symbol
  • i Luv you
  • 12-16-07
  • Alex
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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
200801081737221336149490
Archive entry
200801081737221336149490.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:09 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#200801081737221336149490.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200801081737221336149490.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016