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Pixelated text reads 'Aaron Loves Albany' with a red heart symbol replacing the 'o' in 'Aaron' on the left side of a black background.

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Pixelated text reads 'Aaron Loves Albany' with a red heart symbol replacing the 'o' in 'Aaron' on the left side of a black background.

Pixelated text reads 'Aaron Loves Albany' with a red heart symbol replacing the 'o' in 'Aaron' on the left side of a black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Inter…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static
  • no visible motion

Animation Summary

Static image with two identical text layouts side-by-side; left layout has a red heart symbol replacing the 'o' in 'Aaron', right layout has standard text.

Composition

  • two identical text layouts side-by-side
  • left-aligned text
  • black background

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text. Left side displays 'Aaron' with a red heart symbol replacing the 'o', followed by 'Loves' and 'Albany' below. Right side displays identical text 'Aaron Loves Albany' without the heart symbol. Text uses a blocky, retro digital font. All text is left-aligned. The heart symbol is a solid red pixelated shape. The image shows two identical text layouts side-by-side with one variation.

Description

  • Pixelated text reads 'Aaron Loves Albany' with a red heart symbol replacing the 'o' in 'Aaron' on the left side of a 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

  • Aaron
  • Albany

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Aaron Loves Albany heart
  • red heart text icon
  • pixelated Aaron Loves Albany
  • heart replaces o in Aaron

Objects

  • heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling detected
  • no cropping detected

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • Aaron
  • Loves
  • Albany

Wordwall

  • white pixelated text
  • black background
  • red heart symbol
  • Aaron Loves Albany
  • heart replaces 'o'
  • blocky digital font
  • left-aligned text
  • two identical layouts
  • heart symbol on left
  • no heart on right

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200808221123211571392663
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
248 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/6b/6b6307f427c54dd567bad481693cc998d7a9126ee756539714941143fff0b993.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 UTC
Archive ID
6b6307f427c54dd5
SHA-256
6b6307f427c54dd567bad481693cc998d7a9126ee756539714941143fff0b993
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:49 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.086320

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text reads 'Aaron Loves Albany' with a red heart symbol replacing the 'o' in 'Aaron' on the left side of a black background.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 21:03 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,389 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,146, response 806

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • no visible motion (other, 0.80)
  • static (other, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static
  • no visible motion

Animation Summary

Static image with two identical text layouts side-by-side; left layout has a red heart symbol replacing the 'o' in 'Aaron', right layout has standard text.

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • red

Composition

  • two identical text layouts side-by-side
  • left-aligned text
  • black background

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text. Left side displays 'Aaron' with a red heart symbol replacing the 'o', followed by 'Loves' and 'Albany' below. Right side displays identical text 'Aaron Loves Albany' without the heart symbol. Text uses a blocky, retro digital font. All text is left-aligned. The heart symbol is a solid red pixelated shape. The image shows two identical text layouts side-by-side with one variation.

Description

  • Pixelated text reads 'Aaron Loves Albany' with a red heart symbol replacing the 'o' in 'Aaron' on the left side of a 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

  • Aaron
  • Albany

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral
  • affectionate

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Aaron Loves Albany heart
  • red heart text icon
  • pixelated Aaron Loves Albany
  • heart replaces o in Aaron

Objects

  • heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling detected
  • no cropping detected

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • text
  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • Aaron
  • Loves
  • Albany

Wordwall

  • white pixelated text
  • black background
  • red heart symbol
  • Aaron Loves Albany
  • heart replaces 'o'
  • blocky digital font
  • left-aligned text
  • two identical layouts
  • heart symbol on left
  • no heart on right
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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
200808221123211571392663
Archive entry
200808221123211571392663.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 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#200808221123211571392663.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200808221123211571392663.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016