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Pixelated white text on black background reads josh<3 iloveyou with two heart symbols below.

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Pixelated white text on black background reads josh<3 iloveyou with two heart symbols below.

Pixelated white text on black background reads josh<3 iloveyou with two heart symbols below. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static image with no visible motion changes

Composition

  • two vertical
  • centered hearts below text

Dense Caption

Black background displays pixelated white text in two identical vertical columns. Left column: 'josh<3' above 'iloveyou'. Right column: 'josh<3' above 'iloveyou'. Both columns have a single white pixelated heart symbol centered beneath them. Text uses 8-bit style font with blocky, low-resolution characters. The <3 character sequence represents a heart symbol in text-based communication.

Description

  • Pixelated white text on black background reads josh<3 iloveyou with two heart symbols below.

Identity Hypotheses

  • josh

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

Named Entities

  • josh

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • josh <3 iloveyou
  • pixelated text hearts
  • 8-bit affectionate message
  • black white pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: two vertical columns

Visible Text

  • josh<3
  • iloveyou

Visually Supported Entities

  • josh

Wordwall

  • text
  • <3
  • josh
  • iloveyou
  • heart
  • pixelated
  • black background
  • white text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080526200318790223998
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:28 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
216 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/60/600d6ed67b165e29532593834361226a2055ccb6d05af8d1378a28cb960f51c3.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:28 UTC
Archive ID
600d6ed67b165e29
SHA-256
600d6ed67b165e29532593834361226a2055ccb6d05af8d1378a28cb960f51c3
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
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
0.076389

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated white text on black background reads josh<3 iloveyou with two heart symbols below.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 19:36 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,260 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,146, response 576

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • sentimental (mood, 0.80)
  • static image with no visible motion changes (other, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
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  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • hearts (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static image with no visible motion changes

Colors

  • black
  • white

Composition

  • two vertical
  • centered hearts below text

Dense Caption

Black background displays pixelated white text in two identical vertical columns. Left column: 'josh<3' above 'iloveyou'. Right column: 'josh<3' above 'iloveyou'. Both columns have a single white pixelated heart symbol centered beneath them. Text uses 8-bit style font with blocky, low-resolution characters. The <3 character sequence represents a heart symbol in text-based communication.

Description

  • Pixelated white text on black background reads josh<3 iloveyou with two heart symbols below.

Identity Hypotheses

  • josh

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
  • sentimental

Named Entities

  • josh

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • josh <3 iloveyou
  • pixelated text hearts
  • 8-bit affectionate message
  • black white pixel art

Objects

  • hearts

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: two vertical columns

Style

  • pixelated
  • 8-bit
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • text
  • hearts

Visible Text

  • josh<3
  • iloveyou

Visually Supported Entities

  • josh

Wordwall

  • text
  • <3
  • josh
  • iloveyou
  • heart
  • pixelated
  • black background
  • white text
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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
20080526200318790223998
Archive entry
20080526200318790223998.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:28 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#20080526200318790223998.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080526200318790223998.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016