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Red square icon with black text 'i love eric' and white border, featuring animated heart or star symbol in bottom-right corner.

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Red square icon with black text 'i love eric' and white border, featuring animated heart or star symbol in bottom-right corner.

Red square icon with black text 'i love eric' and white border, featuring animated heart or star symbol in bottom-right corner. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Arc…

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • top-right frame: white heart appears at bottom-right corner of border
  • bottom-right frame: white star replaces heart at bottom-right corner of border

Animation Summary

  • Heart symbol appears in top-right frame, replaced by star symbol in bottom-right frame at the same corner location.

Composition

  • four-square
  • centered text in each square

Dense Caption

Four identical red squares each contain centered black pixelated text reading 'i', 'love', 'eric' stacked vertically. Each square has a thin white border. The top-left square shows no additional symbols. The top-right square displays a small white heart icon at the bottom-right corner of its border. The bottom-right square shows a small white star-like symbol at the bottom-right corner of its border. All squares share identical text and background color. Animation changes only occur in the bottom-right corner symbols across observations.

Description

  • Red square icon with black text 'i love eric' and white border, featuring animated heart or star symbol in bottom-right corner.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance era: 2008
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080321161035191578539

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i love eric heart icon
  • i love eric star icon
  • red text buddy icon
  • pixel art i love eric

Objects

  • heart icon
  • star icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four-square grid layout

Visible Text

  • i
  • love
  • eric

Wordwall

  • red background
  • black pixelated text
  • white border
  • 'i love eric' text
  • heart symbol
  • star symbol

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080321161035191578539
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:20 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
328 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/6f/6f295bf930414d39c180d065eb350c1125b66f654db8289d021f7aee238dbc1d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:20 UTC
Archive ID
6f295bf930414d39
SHA-256
6f295bf930414d39c180d065eb350c1125b66f654db8289d021f7aee238dbc1d
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:53 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.080724

OpenAI category scores

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Red square icon with black text 'i love eric' and white border, featuring animated heart or star symbol in bottom-right corner.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 09:10 UTC
Run
57
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,082 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 618

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • heart icon (object, 0.80)
  • star icon (object, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • static background with animated symbols (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • top-right frame: white heart appears at bottom-right corner of border
  • bottom-right frame: white star replaces heart at bottom-right corner of border

Animation Summary

  • Heart symbol appears in top-right frame, replaced by star symbol in bottom-right frame at the same corner location.

Colors

  • red
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • four-square
  • centered text in each square

Dense Caption

Four identical red squares each contain centered black pixelated text reading 'i', 'love', 'eric' stacked vertically. Each square has a thin white border. The top-left square shows no additional symbols. The top-right square displays a small white heart icon at the bottom-right corner of its border. The bottom-right square shows a small white star-like symbol at the bottom-right corner of its border. All squares share identical text and background color. Animation changes only occur in the bottom-right corner symbols across observations.

Description

  • Red square icon with black text 'i love eric' and white border, featuring animated heart or star symbol in bottom-right corner.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance era: 2008
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080321161035191578539

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i love eric heart icon
  • i love eric star icon
  • red text buddy icon
  • pixel art i love eric

Objects

  • heart icon
  • star icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four-square grid layout

Style

  • pixel art
  • text-based
  • static background with animated symbols

Visible Text

  • i
  • love
  • eric

Wordwall

  • red background
  • black pixelated text
  • white border
  • 'i love eric' text
  • heart symbol
  • star 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
20080321161035191578539
Archive entry
20080321161035191578539.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:20 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#20080321161035191578539.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080321161035191578539.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016