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Red pixelated text on black background with 'I luv u' and 'uk.w.ur' lines, one version featuring a heart symbol replacing the 'u' in 'luv'.

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Red pixelated text on black background with 'I luv u' and 'uk.w.ur' lines, one version featuring a heart symbol replacing the 'u' in 'luv'.

Red pixelated text on black background with 'I luv u' and 'uk.w.ur' lines, one version featuring a heart symbol replacing the 'u' in 'luv'. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Color

Source terms

Animation

  • left side shows heart symbol replacing second 'u'
  • right side shows standard 'u' character

Animation Summary

  • Heart symbol replaces 'u' in "luv" on left side; right side shows standard 'u'.

Composition

  • centered text
  • two identical lines of text
  • heart symbol in place of 'u' on left version

Dense Caption

Black background. Red pixelated text: top line reads "I luv" followed by a heart symbol (replacing the second 'u') on left side; same top line without heart on right side. Bottom line identical on both sides: "uk.w.ur". Text is blocky, low-resolution style typical of early digital graphics. No other visual elements present.

Description

  • Red pixelated text on black background with 'I luv u' and 'uk.w.ur' lines, one version featuring a heart symbol replacing the 'u' in 'luv'.

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
  • 20080422223656527750732

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red pixelated text heart u
  • I luv u uk.w.ur
  • heart symbol replacing u
  • low-resolution red text black background

Visible Text

  • I luv u
  • uk.w.ur

Wordwall

  • red pixelated text
  • black background
  • heart symbol replaces 'u'
  • I luv u
  • uk.w.ur
  • low-resolution graphics

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080422223656527750732
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:24 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
547 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/5f/5f962dd21821a5f1de7547652d667247be25f7dd785a180d343986d505bb4569.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:24 UTC
Archive ID
5f962dd21821a5f1
SHA-256
5f962dd21821a5f1de7547652d667247be25f7dd785a180d343986d505bb4569
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:38 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.126625

OpenAI category scores

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Red pixelated text on black background with 'I luv u' and 'uk.w.ur' lines, one version featuring a heart symbol replacing the 'u' in 'luv'.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 07:38 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
16,776 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,146, response 672

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • left side shows heart symbol replacing second u (other, 0.80)
  • right side shows standard u character (other, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • left side shows heart symbol replacing second 'u'
  • right side shows standard 'u' character

Animation Summary

  • Heart symbol replaces 'u' in "luv" on left side; right side shows standard 'u'.

Colors

  • red
  • black

Composition

  • centered text
  • two identical lines of text
  • heart symbol in place of 'u' on left version

Dense Caption

Black background. Red pixelated text: top line reads "I luv" followed by a heart symbol (replacing the second 'u') on left side; same top line without heart on right side. Bottom line identical on both sides: "uk.w.ur". Text is blocky, low-resolution style typical of early digital graphics. No other visual elements present.

Description

  • Red pixelated text on black background with 'I luv u' and 'uk.w.ur' lines, one version featuring a heart symbol replacing the 'u' in 'luv'.

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
  • 20080422223656527750732

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red pixelated text heart u
  • I luv u uk.w.ur
  • heart symbol replacing u
  • low-resolution red text black background

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • low-resolution

Visible Text

  • I luv u
  • uk.w.ur

Wordwall

  • red pixelated text
  • black background
  • heart symbol replaces 'u'
  • I luv u
  • uk.w.ur
  • low-resolution graphics
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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
20080422223656527750732
Archive entry
20080422223656527750732.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:24 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#20080422223656527750732.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080422223656527750732.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016