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Red pixel art displays a heart shape above two identical text arrangements reading 'i luv u' on a black background.

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Red pixel art displays a heart shape above two identical text arrangements reading 'i luv u' on a black background.

Red pixel art displays a heart shape above two identical text arrangements reading 'i luv u' on a black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksI…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • heart above text
  • two identical text arrangements
  • centered heart
  • symmetrical text

Dense Caption

Red pixelated text and shapes on a black background. At the top center, a red heart shape formed by blocky pixels. Below the heart, two identical vertical arrangements of red pixel text: the top character is 'i', the middle line is 'luv', and the bottom character is 'u'. All text and shapes are rendered in a low-resolution, retro digital style with no visible animation or additional elements.

Description

  • Red pixel art displays a heart shape above two identical text arrangements reading 'i luv u' on a black background.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red pixel heart
  • i luv u text
  • black background pixel art
  • retro digital affection
  • symmetrical text arrangements
  • low-res pixel art
  • heart above i luv u
  • red blocky pixels

Subjects

  • heart

Visible Text

  • i
  • luv
  • u

Wordwall

  • red pixel art
  • heart shape
  • i luv u text
  • black background
  • low-resolution
  • retro digital
  • identical text arrangements
  • blocky pixels

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708300533021743203341
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
330 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 UTC
Archive ID
4f6231acd9ae99f6
SHA-256
4f6231acd9ae99f6c4efa637ac40e0cd112e693cccc523805637c7c09fc81e07
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:19 UTC
Run
1034
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Red pixel art displays a heart shape above two identical text arrangements reading 'i luv u' on a black background.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 07:20 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,155 ms
Tokens
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Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • heart (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • black

Composition

  • heart above text
  • two identical text arrangements
  • centered heart
  • symmetrical text

Dense Caption

Red pixelated text and shapes on a black background. At the top center, a red heart shape formed by blocky pixels. Below the heart, two identical vertical arrangements of red pixel text: the top character is 'i', the middle line is 'luv', and the bottom character is 'u'. All text and shapes are rendered in a low-resolution, retro digital style with no visible animation or additional elements.

Description

  • Red pixel art displays a heart shape above two identical text arrangements reading 'i luv u' on a black background.

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

Mood

  • affectionate
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red pixel heart
  • i luv u text
  • black background pixel art
  • retro digital affection
  • symmetrical text arrangements
  • low-res pixel art
  • heart above i luv u
  • red blocky pixels

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • heart
  • text

Visible Text

  • i
  • luv
  • u

Wordwall

  • red pixel art
  • heart shape
  • i luv u text
  • black background
  • low-resolution
  • retro digital
  • identical text arrangements
  • blocky pixels
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Run
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v5
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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
200708300533021743203341
Archive entry
200708300533021743203341.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 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#200708300533021743203341.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708300533021743203341.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016