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Black background with white pixelated text reading 'i love kevin <33' and two red pixelated hearts below the text.

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Black background with white pixelated text reading 'i love kevin <33' and two red pixelated hearts below the text.

Black background with white pixelated text reading 'i love kevin <33' and two red pixelated hearts below the text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIc…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static
  • no visible motion

Animation Summary

  • Static image with no visible motion changes.

Composition

  • vertical text arrangement
  • two hearts below text
  • centered text block

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text arranged vertically: 'i' at top, 'love' below it, 'kevin' below 'love', and '<33' at bottom. Two red pixelated heart symbols positioned below the text, one centered under the left side of the text block and one centered under the right side of the text block. The text and hearts are rendered in a low-resolution, retro digital style with visible pixelation. The text uses a monospaced font with consistent character spacing. The hearts are identical in shape and size, each composed of red pixels forming a simple heart outline.

Description

  • Black background with white pixelated text reading 'i love kevin <33' and two red pixelated hearts below the text.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i love kevin <33
  • pixelated hearts
  • black background white text
  • retro digital text

Visible Text

  • i
  • love
  • kevin
  • <33

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • i love kevin
  • <33
  • red pixelated hearts
  • low-resolution digital style
  • monospaced font
  • vertical text arrangement
  • two identical hearts
  • retro aesthetic

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200806182159151032210116
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:30 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
795 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 15:30 UTC
Archive ID
656a9fe78ddef417
SHA-256
656a9fe78ddef41711f74f2a147bd5a168647885f4a7c8b981ee4f681f1cc7ac
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:44 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.080266

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Black background with white pixelated text reading 'i love kevin <33' and two red pixelated hearts below the text.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 07:05 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,076 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,146, response 722

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • no visible motion (other, 0.80)
  • static (other, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • hearts (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static
  • no visible motion

Animation Summary

  • Static image with no visible motion changes.

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • red

Composition

  • vertical text arrangement
  • two hearts below text
  • centered text block

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text arranged vertically: 'i' at top, 'love' below it, 'kevin' below 'love', and '<33' at bottom. Two red pixelated heart symbols positioned below the text, one centered under the left side of the text block and one centered under the right side of the text block. The text and hearts are rendered in a low-resolution, retro digital style with visible pixelation. The text uses a monospaced font with consistent character spacing. The hearts are identical in shape and size, each composed of red pixels forming a simple heart outline.

Description

  • Black background with white pixelated text reading 'i love kevin <33' and two red pixelated hearts below the text.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • affectionate
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i love kevin <33
  • pixelated hearts
  • black background white text
  • retro digital text

Objects

  • hearts

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • text
  • hearts

Visible Text

  • i
  • love
  • kevin
  • <33

Wordwall

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  • white pixelated text
  • i love kevin
  • <33
  • red pixelated hearts
  • low-resolution digital style
  • monospaced font
  • vertical text arrangement
  • two identical hearts
  • retro aesthetic
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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
200806182159151032210116
Archive entry
200806182159151032210116.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:30 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#200806182159151032210116.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200806182159151032210116.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016