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Pixel art animation featuring teal text <3ily<3 with pink heart and starburst symbols on black background, alternating between two states.

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Pixel art animation featuring teal text <3ily<3 with pink heart and starburst symbols on black background, alternating between two states.

Pixel art animation featuring teal text <3ily<3 with pink heart and starburst symbols on black background, alternating between two states. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from I…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

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Animation

  • top-left state: pink heart above top , pink starburst right of top-right text; bottom-center state: single pink dot cluster centered between

Animation Summary

Two alternating states: top-left state has pink heart above text and starburst to right; bottom-center state replaces these with a centered dot cluster.

Dense Caption

Black background displays four instances of teal pixelated text '<3ily<3' arranged in a 2x2 grid. Top-left state shows one small pink heart above the top row and one small pink starburst to the right of the top-right text; bottom-center state replaces these with a single larger pink dot cluster centered between rows. Text remains static while symbols alternate between two distinct configurations across frames.

Description

  • Pixel art animation featuring teal text <3ily<3 with pink heart and starburst symbols on black background, alternating between two states.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • 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
  • 200709101332221025273470
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • teal '<3ily<3' pixel art
  • pink symbols black background animation
  • teal text pink dots

Objects

  • pink heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined animation: top-left state: pink heart above top row, pink starburst right of top-right text; bottom-center state: single pink dot cluster centered between rows
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid teal text pink dots

Visible Text

  • <3ily<3

Wordwall

  • teal pixelated text '<3ily<3'
  • black background
  • pink heart symbol
  • pink starburst symbol
  • pink dot cluster symbol

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709101332221025273470
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:44 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
566 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/6f/6fab3af5b9180855932faecb600e3faade6105b82b8f333915a75cf52e61c75c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:44 UTC
Archive ID
6fab3af5b9180855
SHA-256
6fab3af5b9180855932faecb600e3faade6105b82b8f333915a75cf52e61c75c
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:54 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.095345

OpenAI category scores

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Pixel art animation featuring teal text <3ily<3 with pink heart and starburst symbols on black background, alternating between two states.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 00:59 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,147 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 645

Review tags

  • symbols alternate between two configurations (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • teal (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pink dot cluster symbol (object, 0.80)
  • pink heart symbol (object, 0.80)
  • pink starburst symbol (object, 0.80)
  • teal text 3ily 3 (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution animation (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)

Actions

  • symbols alternate between two configurations

Animation

  • top-left state: pink heart above top , pink starburst right of top-right text; bottom-center state: single pink dot cluster centered between

Animation Summary

Two alternating states: top-left state has pink heart above text and starburst to right; bottom-center state replaces these with a centered dot cluster.

Colors

  • black
  • teal
  • pink

Dense Caption

Black background displays four instances of teal pixelated text '<3ily<3' arranged in a 2x2 grid. Top-left state shows one small pink heart above the top row and one small pink starburst to the right of the top-right text; bottom-center state replaces these with a single larger pink dot cluster centered between rows. Text remains static while symbols alternate between two distinct configurations across frames.

Description

  • Pixel art animation featuring teal text <3ily<3 with pink heart and starburst symbols on black background, alternating between two states.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • 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
  • 200709101332221025273470
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • teal '<3ily<3' pixel art
  • pink symbols black background animation
  • teal text pink dots

Objects

  • teal text '<3ily<3'
  • pink heart symbol
  • pink starburst symbol
  • pink dot cluster symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined animation: top-left state: pink heart above top row, pink starburst right of top-right text; bottom-center state: single pink dot cluster centered between rows
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid teal text pink dots

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution animation

Visible Text

  • <3ily<3

Wordwall

  • teal pixelated text '<3ily<3'
  • black background
  • pink heart symbol
  • pink starburst symbol
  • pink dot cluster 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
200709101332221025273470
Archive entry
200709101332221025273470.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:44 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#200709101332221025273470.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709101332221025273470.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016