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A static image with a bright pink background featuring four distinct pixelated elements: a black square with white 'I', a black square with white 'Love', a black bar with white plus signs, and a black shape with white '</3'.

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A static image with a bright pink background featuring four distinct pixelated elements: a black square with white 'I', a black square with white 'Love', a black bar with white plus signs, and a black shape with white '</3'.

A static image with a bright pink background featuring four distinct pixelated elements: a black square with white 'I', a black square with white 'Love', a black bar with white pl…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • top-left
  • top-right
  • middle
  • bottom-left
  • gray right side

Dense Caption

Bright pink background. Top-left: black square with white uppercase 'I'. Top-right: black square with white lowercase 'Love' (letter 'o' is a circle). Middle: black rectangular bar with white plus signs (nine plus signs total). Bottom-left: black shape with white '</3' (angle bracket, slash, number three). All elements are pixelated with black outlines. Right side of image is gray. No visible motion or animation.

Description

A static image with a bright pink background featuring four distinct pixelated elements: a black square with white 'I', a black square with white 'Love', a black bar with white plus signs, and a black shape with white '</3'.

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

  • pink background I Love
  • I Love </3
  • plus signs pink background
  • pixelated I Love </3

Visible Text

  • I
  • Love
  • </3

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • black square with 'I'
  • black square with 'Love'
  • black bar with plus signs
  • </3 shape
  • gray right side
  • pixelated text
  • white text on black
  • nine plus signs

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200902221317511132729566
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/60/6010c7c70f777c81b30d5304fe9bcfa03527e2a00b3f1c6e802d96a05273b85a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 UTC
Archive ID
6010c7c70f777c81
SHA-256
6010c7c70f777c81b30d5304fe9bcfa03527e2a00b3f1c6e802d96a05273b85a
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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
0.105575

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A static image with a bright pink background featuring four distinct pixelated elements: a black square with white 'I', a black square with white 'Love', a black bar with white plus signs, and a black shape with white '</3'.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 00:13 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,946 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,116, response 616

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • pink
  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • top-left
  • top-right
  • middle
  • bottom-left
  • gray right side

Dense Caption

Bright pink background. Top-left: black square with white uppercase 'I'. Top-right: black square with white lowercase 'Love' (letter 'o' is a circle). Middle: black rectangular bar with white plus signs (nine plus signs total). Bottom-left: black shape with white '</3' (angle bracket, slash, number three). All elements are pixelated with black outlines. Right side of image is gray. No visible motion or animation.

Description

A static image with a bright pink background featuring four distinct pixelated elements: a black square with white 'I', a black square with white 'Love', a black bar with white plus signs, and a black shape with white '</3'.

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

  • playful
  • affectionate

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink background I Love
  • I Love </3
  • plus signs pink background
  • pixelated I Love </3

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • I
  • Love
  • </3

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • black square with 'I'
  • black square with 'Love'
  • black bar with plus signs
  • </3 shape
  • gray right side
  • pixelated text
  • white text on black
  • nine plus signs
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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
200902221317511132729566
Archive entry
200902221317511132729566.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 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#200902221317511132729566.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200902221317511132729566.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016