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Red background with green text reading "I Love Brendan 1-24-09" and a white pixelated heart above the text, with a green vertical bar on the left side.

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Red background with green text reading "I Love Brendan 1-24-09" and a white pixelated heart above the text, with a green vertical bar on the left side.

Red background with green text reading "I Love Brendan 1-24-09" and a white pixelated heart above the text, with a green vertical bar on the left side. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM budd…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static

Animation Summary

  • Static image with no visible motion changes.

Composition

  • text block centered
  • heart above text
  • vertical bar left of text
  • parentheses below text

Dense Caption

Red background. Green text: "I" (single vertical bar), "Love" (bold), "Brendan" (bold), "1-24-09" (bold). White pixelated heart above "Love". Green vertical bar on left side of text block. Green parentheses at bottom center. Text and heart are static. All elements are rendered in a pixelated style with visible dithering. The heart is a hollow outline. The text uses a blocky, retro digital font. The date "1-24-09" is formatted with hyphens. The vertical bar is positioned directly above the "I".

Description

Red background with green text reading "I Love Brendan 1-24-09" and a white pixelated heart above the text, with a green vertical bar on the left side.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background green text heart
  • I Love Brendan 1-24-09
  • pixelated heart green text
  • green vertical bar heart
  • 1-24-09 date text
  • hollow heart outline
  • retro digital font
  • dithering visible

Objects

  • heart

Subjects

  • heart

Visible Text

  • I
  • Love
  • Brendan
  • 1-24-09

Wordwall

  • red background
  • green text
  • white pixelated heart
  • green vertical bar
  • green parentheses
  • pixelated style
  • blocky digital font
  • date format 1-24-09
  • hollow heart outline
  • dithering visible
  • text block centered
  • vertical bar above I
  • parentheses at bottom

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090204170828829732724
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:51 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.4 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:51 UTC
Archive ID
70604a18d6689264
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:54 UTC
Run
1039
Input
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
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Red background with green text reading "I Love Brendan 1-24-09" and a white pixelated heart above the text, with a green vertical bar on the left side.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 21:33 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,951 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,147, response 748

Review tags

  • green (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • personal (mood, 0.80)
  • static (other, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • heart (subject, 0.80)
  • parentheses (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static

Animation Summary

  • Static image with no visible motion changes.

Colors

  • red
  • green
  • white

Composition

  • text block centered
  • heart above text
  • vertical bar left of text
  • parentheses below text

Dense Caption

Red background. Green text: "I" (single vertical bar), "Love" (bold), "Brendan" (bold), "1-24-09" (bold). White pixelated heart above "Love". Green vertical bar on left side of text block. Green parentheses at bottom center. Text and heart are static. All elements are rendered in a pixelated style with visible dithering. The heart is a hollow outline. The text uses a blocky, retro digital font. The date "1-24-09" is formatted with hyphens. The vertical bar is positioned directly above the "I".

Description

Red background with green text reading "I Love Brendan 1-24-09" and a white pixelated heart above the text, with a green vertical bar on the left side.

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

Mood

  • affectionate
  • personal

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background green text heart
  • I Love Brendan 1-24-09
  • pixelated heart green text
  • green vertical bar heart
  • 1-24-09 date text
  • hollow heart outline
  • retro digital font
  • dithering visible

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  • heart
  • parentheses

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • text
  • heart
  • parentheses

Visible Text

  • I
  • Love
  • Brendan
  • 1-24-09

Wordwall

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  • green text
  • white pixelated heart
  • green vertical bar
  • green parentheses
  • pixelated style
  • blocky digital font
  • date format 1-24-09
  • hollow heart outline
  • dithering visible
  • text block centered
  • vertical bar above I
  • parentheses at bottom
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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
20090204170828829732724
Archive entry
20090204170828829732724.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:51 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#20090204170828829732724.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090204170828829732724.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016