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Pixelated text and a heart symbol on black background, with red lowercase letters spelling 'i heart german boys' and white pixel-art heart above the word 'heart'.

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Pixelated text and a heart symbol on black background, with red lowercase letters spelling 'i heart german boys' and white pixel-art heart above the word 'heart'.

Pixelated text and a heart symbol on black background, with red lowercase letters spelling 'i heart german boys' and white pixel-art heart above the word 'heart'. Animated 48×48 G…

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Composition

  • centered text
  • vertical alignment
  • text stacked above heart

Dense Caption

Black background. Red pixelated text: 'i', below it 'heart', then 'german', then 'boys'. White pixel-art heart icon positioned directly above the word 'heart'. Text is lowercase, uses a blocky 8-bit style font. The heart consists of white pixels forming an outline with internal negative space. All elements are centered horizontally on the black background.

Description

Pixelated text and a heart symbol on black background, with red lowercase letters spelling 'i heart german boys' and white pixel-art heart above the word 'heart'.

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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071226121450157049258

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i heart german boys pixel art
  • red text white heart black background
  • pixelated 'i heart german boys' icon
  • heart symbol above word heart

Objects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • i
  • heart
  • german
  • boys

Wordwall

  • black background
  • red text
  • white heart symbol
  • pixelated font
  • lowercase letters
  • i heart german boys
  • heart above 'heart'
  • blocky 8-bit style

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071226121450157049258
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:06 UTC

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Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
256 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/52/524c4498c96bdbc9d3ef862c5fee9c7b4ba78bdb0a2ebce0ccc6e471654bf7be.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:06 UTC
Archive ID
524c4498c96bdbc9
SHA-256
524c4498c96bdbc9d3ef862c5fee9c7b4ba78bdb0a2ebce0ccc6e471654bf7be
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:24 UTC
Run
1037
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.118108

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Pixelated text and a heart symbol on black background, with red lowercase letters spelling 'i heart german boys' and white pixel-art heart above the word 'heart'.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 04:48 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,628 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,137, response 628

Review tags

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  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
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  • black
  • red
  • white

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  • centered text
  • vertical alignment
  • text stacked above heart

Dense Caption

Black background. Red pixelated text: 'i', below it 'heart', then 'german', then 'boys'. White pixel-art heart icon positioned directly above the word 'heart'. Text is lowercase, uses a blocky 8-bit style font. The heart consists of white pixels forming an outline with internal negative space. All elements are centered horizontally on the black background.

Description

Pixelated text and a heart symbol on black background, with red lowercase letters spelling 'i heart german boys' and white pixel-art heart above the word 'heart'.

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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071226121450157049258

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i heart german boys pixel art
  • red text white heart black background
  • pixelated 'i heart german boys' icon
  • heart symbol above word heart

Objects

  • heart symbol

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit
  • blocky font

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  • i
  • heart
  • german
  • boys

Wordwall

  • black background
  • red text
  • white heart symbol
  • pixelated font
  • lowercase letters
  • i heart german boys
  • heart above 'heart'
  • blocky 8-bit style
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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
20071226121450157049258
Archive entry
20071226121450157049258.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:06 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#20071226121450157049258.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071226121450157049258.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016