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Pixelated black-and-white image showing two identical side-by-side text sequences with a heart symbol above the left sequence.

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Pixelated black-and-white image showing two identical side-by-side text sequences with a heart symbol above the left sequence.

Pixelated black-and-white image showing two identical side-by-side text sequences with a heart symbol above the left sequence. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Arch…

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Source terms

Composition

  • two identical side-by-side sequences
  • vertical alignment
  • centered elements

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text and symbols. Two identical side-by-side sequences: top row has a lowercase 'i', a heart symbol (formed by four connected pixels), and another lowercase 'i'; middle row has the word 'love'; bottom row has four 'x' characters followed by a left parenthesis, three '3' characters, and a right parenthesis. All elements are rendered in a low-resolution pixel art style with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated black-and-white image showing two identical side-by-side text sequences with a heart symbol above the left sequence.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation file-name (gallery): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • observation title (gallery): 200807091914191042464043
  • observation file-name (gallery): 200807091914191042464043

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i love xxxx (333
  • i love xxxx 333)
  • i love xxxx (333)
  • i love xxxx 333

Visible Text

  • i
  • love
  • xxxx
  • (333
  • 333)

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • lowercase 'i' characters
  • heart symbol
  • word 'love'
  • four 'x' characters
  • parentheses
  • three '3' characters
  • pixel art style
  • side-by-side sequences

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200807091914191042464043
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
220 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/68/686cbf95ae7be885641125cd0f91adb5d6fd29316cd3e53d4d52a6b3503299f4.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 UTC
Archive ID
686cbf95ae7be885
SHA-256
686cbf95ae7be885641125cd0f91adb5d6fd29316cd3e53d4d52a6b3503299f4
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:00 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.081168

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated black-and-white image showing two identical side-by-side text sequences with a heart symbol above the left sequence.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 11:29 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,738 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,145, response 777

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • monochrome (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white

Composition

  • two identical side-by-side sequences
  • vertical alignment
  • centered elements

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text and symbols. Two identical side-by-side sequences: top row has a lowercase 'i', a heart symbol (formed by four connected pixels), and another lowercase 'i'; middle row has the word 'love'; bottom row has four 'x' characters followed by a left parenthesis, three '3' characters, and a right parenthesis. All elements are rendered in a low-resolution pixel art style with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated black-and-white image showing two identical side-by-side text sequences with a heart symbol above the left sequence.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation file-name (gallery): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • observation title (gallery): 200807091914191042464043
  • observation file-name (gallery): 200807091914191042464043

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i love xxxx (333
  • i love xxxx 333)
  • i love xxxx (333)
  • i love xxxx 333

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • monochrome

Visible Text

  • i
  • love
  • xxxx
  • (333
  • 333)

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • lowercase 'i' characters
  • heart symbol
  • word 'love'
  • four 'x' characters
  • parentheses
  • three '3' characters
  • pixel art style
  • side-by-side sequences
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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
200807091914191042464043
Archive entry
200807091914191042464043.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 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#200807091914191042464043.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200807091914191042464043.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016