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Pixelated text reads 'love is a friendship that will last forever <3<3<3' with red heart symbol replacing the letter 'a' in first instance.

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Pixelated text reads 'love is a friendship that will last forever <3<3<3' with red heart symbol replacing the letter 'a' in first instance.

Pixelated text reads 'love is a friendship that will last forever <3<3<3' with red heart symbol replacing the letter 'a' in first instance. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • vertical text alignment
  • two identical lines side-by-side
  • centered horizontal placement

Dense Caption

Black background displays white pixelated text. Left side shows 'love is a friendship that will last forever <3<3<3' where second 'a' is replaced by red heart; right side shows identical text but with standard lowercase 'a'. Text uses 8-bit style font, each character formed from square pixels. Red heart symbol consists of solid red pixels forming outline and fill. Both sides have same vertical alignment and spacing between lines.

Description

  • Pixelated text reads 'love is a friendship that will last forever <3<3<3' with red heart symbol replacing the letter 'a' in first instance.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • love is a friendship that will last forever
  • <3<3<3
  • red heart symbol replacement
  • pixelated text

Objects

  • heart symbol

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • love is a friendship that will last forever <3<3<3

Visually Supported Entities

  • <3<3<3

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • red heart symbol
  • love is a friendship that will last forever
  • <3<3<3
  • 8-bit style font
  • standard lowercase 'a'
  • replaced letter 'a'

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080521133723916838050
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:27 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
338 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 15:27 UTC
Archive ID
5577e7d2d695cb0c
SHA-256
5577e7d2d695cb0c57e1d9c55bfc000068ddf8c6f7715dcbadfe765238051684
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:18 UTC
Run
1034
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.085765

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text reads 'love is a friendship that will last forever <3<3<3' with red heart symbol replacing the letter 'a' in first instance.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 17:39 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,643 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,144, response 636

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
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Colors

  • black
  • white
  • red

Composition

  • vertical text alignment
  • two identical lines side-by-side
  • centered horizontal placement

Dense Caption

Black background displays white pixelated text. Left side shows 'love is a friendship that will last forever <3<3<3' where second 'a' is replaced by red heart; right side shows identical text but with standard lowercase 'a'. Text uses 8-bit style font, each character formed from square pixels. Red heart symbol consists of solid red pixels forming outline and fill. Both sides have same vertical alignment and spacing between lines.

Description

  • Pixelated text reads 'love is a friendship that will last forever <3<3<3' with red heart symbol replacing the letter 'a' in first instance.

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

Mood

  • affectionate
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • love is a friendship that will last forever
  • <3<3<3
  • red heart symbol replacement
  • pixelated text

Objects

  • heart symbol

Style

  • pixelated
  • 8-bit
  • monospaced

Subjects

  • text
  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • love is a friendship that will last forever <3<3<3

Visually Supported Entities

  • <3<3<3

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • red heart symbol
  • love is a friendship that will last forever
  • <3<3<3
  • 8-bit style font
  • standard lowercase 'a'
  • replaced letter 'a'
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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
20080521133723916838050
Archive entry
20080521133723916838050.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:27 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#20080521133723916838050.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080521133723916838050.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016