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A black background displays two identical text blocks with a red heart symbol replacing the 'o' in 'love' on the left block.

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A black background displays two identical text blocks with a red heart symbol replacing the 'o' in 'love' on the left block.

A black background displays two identical text blocks with a red heart symbol replacing the 'o' in 'love' on the left block. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archiv…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • left block's 'love' text has red heart symbol
  • right block's 'love' text has standard white 'o'

Animation Summary

  • Left block displays 'i [heart] love josh <3' while right block displays 'i love josh <3' with standard 'o' in 'love'.

Composition

  • two side-by-side text blocks
  • horizontal centering
  • identical layout

Dense Caption

Black background with two identical text blocks side-by-side. Left block: white text 'i', red heart symbol, white text 'love', white text 'josh', white text '<3'. Right block: white text 'i', white text 'love', white text 'josh', white text '<3'. Left block's 'love' text has a red heart symbol replacing the 'o'. Right block's 'love' text uses standard white 'o'. Both blocks have identical text layout and font. Red heart symbol is pixelated and positioned directly above the 'o' in 'love' on the left block. White text is rendered in a pixelated font. Text is horizontally centered within each block. Left block's heart symbol is the only visible color variation between the two blocks.

Description

  • A black background displays two identical text blocks with a red heart symbol replacing the 'o' in 'love' on the left block.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • 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 josh <3
  • i [heart] love josh <3
  • heart replaces o in love
  • two identical text blocks

Objects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • i
  • love
  • josh
  • <3

Wordwall

  • black background
  • two identical text blocks
  • red heart symbol
  • white text
  • pixelated font
  • text 'i'
  • text 'love'
  • text 'josh'
  • text '<3'
  • heart replaces 'o' in 'love'

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070813192552425463939
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 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/4e/4ea16ca64323707b6024497c8457193a827d4e819a4f44beac1dfd2c5daf60bc.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 UTC
Archive ID
4ea16ca64323707b
SHA-256
4ea16ca64323707b6024497c8457193a827d4e819a4f44beac1dfd2c5daf60bc
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:19 UTC
Run
1034
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.080736

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A black background displays two identical text blocks with a red heart symbol replacing the 'o' in 'love' on the left block.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 23:15 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,783 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,142, response 756

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (object, 0.80)
  • left block s love text has red heart symbol (other, 0.80)
  • right block s love text has standard white o (other, 0.80)
  • minimalist (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • left block's 'love' text has red heart symbol
  • right block's 'love' text has standard white 'o'

Animation Summary

  • Left block displays 'i [heart] love josh <3' while right block displays 'i love josh <3' with standard 'o' in 'love'.

Colors

  • black
  • red
  • white

Composition

  • two side-by-side text blocks
  • horizontal centering
  • identical layout

Dense Caption

Black background with two identical text blocks side-by-side. Left block: white text 'i', red heart symbol, white text 'love', white text 'josh', white text '<3'. Right block: white text 'i', white text 'love', white text 'josh', white text '<3'. Left block's 'love' text has a red heart symbol replacing the 'o'. Right block's 'love' text uses standard white 'o'. Both blocks have identical text layout and font. Red heart symbol is pixelated and positioned directly above the 'o' in 'love' on the left block. White text is rendered in a pixelated font. Text is horizontally centered within each block. Left block's heart symbol is the only visible color variation between the two blocks.

Description

  • A black background displays two identical text blocks with a red heart symbol replacing the 'o' in 'love' on the left block.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • affectionate
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i love josh <3
  • i [heart] love josh <3
  • heart replaces o in love
  • two identical text blocks

Objects

  • heart symbol

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • minimalist

Visible Text

  • i
  • love
  • josh
  • <3

Wordwall

  • black background
  • two identical text blocks
  • red heart symbol
  • white text
  • pixelated font
  • text 'i'
  • text 'love'
  • text 'josh'
  • text '<3'
  • heart replaces 'o' in 'love'
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 11:32 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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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
20070813192552425463939
Archive entry
20070813192552425463939.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 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#20070813192552425463939.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070813192552425463939.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016