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Pixelated text and blue heart symbols on a black background, with repeated phrases 'i love u', 'u love me', names 'Brendan' and 'Katie', and '<3' emoticons.

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Pixelated text and blue heart symbols on a black background, with repeated phrases 'i love u', 'u love me', names 'Brendan' and 'Katie', and '<3' emoticons.

Pixelated text and blue heart symbols on a black background, with repeated phrases 'i love u', 'u love me', names 'Brendan' and 'Katie', and '<3' emoticons. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text
  • scattered hearts

Dense Caption

Black background filled with white pixelated text: 'i love u', 'u love me', 'Brendan', 'Katie', and '<3'. Blue heart symbols scattered throughout, some overlapping text. Text appears in multiple rows; 'i love u' repeats 4 times, 'u love me' repeats 4 times, 'Brendan' repeats 4 times, 'Katie' repeats 4 times, '<3' repeats 4 times. All elements are static with no visible animation changes.

Description

Pixelated text and blue heart symbols on a black background, with repeated phrases 'i love u', 'u love me', names 'Brendan' and 'Katie', and '<3' emoticons.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Named Entities

  • Brendan
  • Katie

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i love u blue hearts Brendan Katie
  • repeated text blue heart symbols black background
  • pixelated white text blue hearts
  • Brendan Katie i love u u love me <3

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: text rows

Visible Text

  • i love u
  • u love me
  • Brendan
  • Katie
  • <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • Brendan
  • Katie

Wordwall

  • white pixelated text
  • blue heart symbols
  • black background
  • 'i love u'
  • 'u love me'
  • 'Brendan'
  • 'Katie'
  • <3>
  • repeated phrases
  • scattered hearts

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709181410311689413823
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:46 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/61/61c84436647aeaebca2b669064f4989fa681574d53add551bfc2d7bbde9beb73.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:46 UTC
Archive ID
61c84436647aeaeb
SHA-256
61c84436647aeaebca2b669064f4989fa681574d53add551bfc2d7bbde9beb73
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:40 UTC
Run
1039
Input
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.084351

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Pixelated text and blue heart symbols on a black background, with repeated phrases 'i love u', 'u love me', names 'Brendan' and 'Katie', and '<3' emoticons.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 02:58 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,812 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 671

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • repetitive (mood, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
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  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • blue

Composition

  • text
  • scattered hearts

Dense Caption

Black background filled with white pixelated text: 'i love u', 'u love me', 'Brendan', 'Katie', and '<3'. Blue heart symbols scattered throughout, some overlapping text. Text appears in multiple rows; 'i love u' repeats 4 times, 'u love me' repeats 4 times, 'Brendan' repeats 4 times, 'Katie' repeats 4 times, '<3' repeats 4 times. All elements are static with no visible animation changes.

Description

Pixelated text and blue heart symbols on a black background, with repeated phrases 'i love u', 'u love me', names 'Brendan' and 'Katie', and '<3' emoticons.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • affectionate
  • repetitive

Named Entities

  • Brendan
  • Katie

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i love u blue hearts Brendan Katie
  • repeated text blue heart symbols black background
  • pixelated white text blue hearts
  • Brendan Katie i love u u love me <3

Objects

  • hearts

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: text rows

Style

  • pixelated
  • 8-bit

Subjects

  • text
  • hearts

Visible Text

  • i love u
  • u love me
  • Brendan
  • Katie
  • <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • Brendan
  • Katie

Wordwall

  • white pixelated text
  • blue heart symbols
  • black background
  • 'i love u'
  • 'u love me'
  • 'Brendan'
  • 'Katie'
  • <3>
  • repeated phrases
  • scattered hearts
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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
200709181410311689413823
Archive entry
200709181410311689413823.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:46 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#200709181410311689413823.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709181410311689413823.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016