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Green pixelated heart symbol above repeated white text 'lovee: <3!' on black background.

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Green pixelated heart symbol above repeated white text 'lovee: <3!' on black background.

Green pixelated heart symbol above repeated white text 'lovee: <3!' on black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, L…

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Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; static image throughout.

Composition

  • top-center heart symbol
  • centered horizontal text block
  • repeated text elements

Dense Caption

Black background with a green pixelated heart symbol positioned at the top center. Below it, two identical instances of white pixelated text read 'lovee: <3!'. The text is horizontally centered and spans most of the image width. Each instance consists of lowercase letters for 'lovee', followed by a colon, then '<3!', with an exclamation mark. The heart symbol has a distinct blocky, retro digital appearance consistent with early internet graphics.

Description

  • Green pixelated heart symbol above repeated white text 'lovee: <3!' on black background.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200812081812501184129712

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green heart pixel art
  • lovee text <3
  • repeated lovee <3 icon
  • pixelated affection symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation detected; appears static.

Visible Text

  • lovee: <3!

Wordwall

  • green pixelated heart
  • white pixelated text
  • black background
  • 'lovee: <3!' repeated twice
  • lowercase 'lovee'
  • colon after 'lovee'
  • '<3!' symbol
  • exclamation mark at end

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200812081812501184129712
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:45 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
743 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/69/69d5ee596ac2668f6c0ab312729cf9d78053c962846f1689a3ebd8f9088c2521.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:45 UTC
Archive ID
69d5ee596ac2668f
SHA-256
69d5ee596ac2668f6c0ab312729cf9d78053c962846f1689a3ebd8f9088c2521
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:48 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.076149

OpenAI category scores

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Green pixelated heart symbol above repeated white text 'lovee: <3!' on black background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 12:58 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,309 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,148, response 613

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • monochrome text on dark background (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; static image throughout.

Colors

  • black
  • green
  • white

Composition

  • top-center heart symbol
  • centered horizontal text block
  • repeated text elements

Dense Caption

Black background with a green pixelated heart symbol positioned at the top center. Below it, two identical instances of white pixelated text read 'lovee: <3!'. The text is horizontally centered and spans most of the image width. Each instance consists of lowercase letters for 'lovee', followed by a colon, then '<3!', with an exclamation mark. The heart symbol has a distinct blocky, retro digital appearance consistent with early internet graphics.

Description

  • Green pixelated heart symbol above repeated white text 'lovee: <3!' on black background.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200812081812501184129712

Mood

  • affectionate
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green heart pixel art
  • lovee text <3
  • repeated lovee <3 icon
  • pixelated affection symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation detected; appears static.

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • monochrome text on dark background

Visible Text

  • lovee: <3!

Wordwall

  • green pixelated heart
  • white pixelated text
  • black background
  • 'lovee: <3!' repeated twice
  • lowercase 'lovee'
  • colon after 'lovee'
  • '<3!' symbol
  • exclamation mark at end
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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
200812081812501184129712
Archive entry
200812081812501184129712.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:45 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#200812081812501184129712.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200812081812501184129712.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016