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Black background with white pixelated text "I love you" and five heart symbols below, where the third heart changes from white to gray between frames.

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Black background with white pixelated text "I love you" and five heart symbols below, where the third heart changes from white to gray between frames.

Black background with white pixelated text "I love you" and five heart symbols below, where the third heart changes from white to gray between frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • the third heart symbol changes from gray to white

Animation Summary

  • The third heart symbol changes from gray to white between

Composition

  • text centered above hearts
  • hearts horizontally aligned

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text "I love you" arranged in three lines ("I" centered above "love" above "you"). Below the text, five heart symbols are horizontally aligned. In the left frame, the third heart from the left is gray; in the right frame, the third heart from the left is white. The hearts are pixelated and identical in shape to the text. The text and hearts are the only visible elements.

Description

Black background with white pixelated text "I love you" and five heart symbols below, where the third heart changes from white to gray between frames.

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

  • I love you pixelated hearts
  • black background white text hearts
  • heart color change animation
  • pixelated I love you hearts
  • gray heart white heart animation
  • text I love you hearts
  • affectionate pixel art hearts
  • monochrome heart animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: The third heart symbol changes from gray to white between two frames.

Subjects

  • heart symbols

Visible Text

  • I
  • love
  • you

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • I love you
  • five heart symbols
  • third heart changes color
  • gray heart
  • white heart
  • horizontal alignment
  • text arranged in three lines
  • pixelated rendering

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200907211603541657867998
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
267 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/4d/4d0dd5166f7904c763de3e6165b172d85432108df91fbe36291739897b69cfe1.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 UTC
Archive ID
4d0dd5166f7904c7
SHA-256
4d0dd5166f7904c763de3e6165b172d85432108df91fbe36291739897b69cfe1
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
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
0.073706

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Black background with white pixelated text "I love you" and five heart symbols below, where the third heart changes from white to gray between frames.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 15:02 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,713 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,147, response 721

Review tags

  • heart color change (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • hearts (object, 0.80)
  • monochrome (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbols (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • heart color change

Animation

  • the third heart symbol changes from gray to white

Animation Summary

  • The third heart symbol changes from gray to white between

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • text centered above hearts
  • hearts horizontally aligned

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text "I love you" arranged in three lines ("I" centered above "love" above "you"). Below the text, five heart symbols are horizontally aligned. In the left frame, the third heart from the left is gray; in the right frame, the third heart from the left is white. The hearts are pixelated and identical in shape to the text. The text and hearts are the only visible elements.

Description

Black background with white pixelated text "I love you" and five heart symbols below, where the third heart changes from white to gray between frames.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • I love you pixelated hearts
  • black background white text hearts
  • heart color change animation
  • pixelated I love you hearts
  • gray heart white heart animation
  • text I love you hearts
  • affectionate pixel art hearts
  • monochrome heart animation

Objects

  • hearts

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: The third heart symbol changes from gray to white between two frames.

Style

  • pixelated
  • monochrome

Subjects

  • text
  • heart symbols

Visible Text

  • I
  • love
  • you

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • I love you
  • five heart symbols
  • third heart changes color
  • gray heart
  • white heart
  • horizontal alignment
  • text arranged in three lines
  • pixelated rendering
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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
200907211603541657867998
Archive entry
200907211603541657867998.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 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#200907211603541657867998.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200907211603541657867998.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016