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Blue pixelated heart symbol above brown pixelated text reading "i love you sam<3" on white background.

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Blue pixelated heart symbol above brown pixelated text reading "i love you sam<3" on white background.

Blue pixelated heart symbol above brown pixelated text reading "i love you sam<3" on white background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared B…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • heart above text
  • two horizontal text lines
  • centered composition

Dense Caption

Blue pixelated heart symbol positioned above brown pixelated text. Text reads "i love you sam<3" in two identical horizontal lines. Each line contains lowercase "i love" on the first row, "you sam<3" on the second row. The heart symbol is composed of blue pixels forming a stylized heart shape. The background is solid white. The text uses a pixelated font with brown pixels. The <3 symbol represents a heart emoji. The image is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Blue pixelated heart symbol above brown pixelated text reading "i love you sam<3" on white 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue heart pixel art
  • i love you sam<3 text
  • brown pixelated text
  • white background pixel art
  • two identical text lines
  • heart symbol <3
  • pixelated affectionate message
  • text-based buddy icon

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • i love you sam<3

Wordwall

  • blue pixelated heart
  • brown pixelated text
  • i love you sam<3
  • white background
  • two identical text lines
  • <3 symbol

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080613075347526599961
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:29 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
865 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/6a/6a5f56d16766a01895880aadc9b50200a3c5c08c3526ad3cb3b7962a05bb39d2.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:29 UTC
Archive ID
6a5f56d16766a018
SHA-256
6a5f56d16766a01895880aadc9b50200a3c5c08c3526ad3cb3b7962a05bb39d2
Content-safety assessments (1)
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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
0.102237

OpenAI category scores

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Blue pixelated heart symbol above brown pixelated text reading "i love you sam<3" on white background.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 05:39 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,356 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,146, response 687

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • sentimental (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • brown
  • white

Composition

  • heart above text
  • two horizontal text lines
  • centered composition

Dense Caption

Blue pixelated heart symbol positioned above brown pixelated text. Text reads "i love you sam<3" in two identical horizontal lines. Each line contains lowercase "i love" on the first row, "you sam<3" on the second row. The heart symbol is composed of blue pixels forming a stylized heart shape. The background is solid white. The text uses a pixelated font with brown pixels. The <3 symbol represents a heart emoji. The image is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Blue pixelated heart symbol above brown pixelated text reading "i love you sam<3" on white 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Mood

  • affectionate
  • sentimental

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue heart pixel art
  • i love you sam<3 text
  • brown pixelated text
  • white background pixel art
  • two identical text lines
  • heart symbol <3
  • pixelated affectionate message
  • text-based buddy icon

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text-based

Subjects

  • heart symbol
  • text

Visible Text

  • i love you sam<3

Wordwall

  • blue pixelated heart
  • brown pixelated text
  • i love you sam<3
  • white background
  • two identical text lines
  • <3 symbol
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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
20080613075347526599961
Archive entry
20080613075347526599961.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:29 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#20080613075347526599961.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080613075347526599961.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016