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Two heart-shaped icons with checkered patterns display text: 'love' in red, 'is an' in white, and 'under statement' in white across the bottom.

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Two heart-shaped icons with checkered patterns display text: 'love' in red, 'is an' in white, and 'under statement' in white across the bottom.

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • two hearts top
  • one heart bottom
  • gray rectangle bottom-right

Dense Caption

Two heart-shaped icons with black-and-white checkered patterns. The top-left heart displays 'love' in red text on a black background. The top-right heart displays 'is an' in white text on a black background. The bottom heart displays 'under statement' in white text on a black background. All hearts have a pixelated, low-resolution appearance. The background is white except for a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner.

Description

Two heart-shaped icons with checkered patterns display text: 'love' in red, 'is an' in white, and 'under statement' in white across the bottom.

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

  • love is an under statement
  • heart checkered text
  • red white black gray
  • pixelated text hearts

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: one heart bottom row
  • quarantined composition: two hearts top row

Visible Text

  • love
  • is an
  • under statement

Wordwall

  • heart-shaped
  • checkered pattern
  • red text
  • white text
  • love
  • is an
  • under statement
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • gray rectangle

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200906060806071786146320
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
4.7 KB
Motion
Animated (3 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 15:59 UTC
Archive ID
726d317bffa12ccc
SHA-256
726d317bffa12ccc39a80a718a8632cbd700d739624463b2f4d5ccfb3acfe534
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:57 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.083405

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Two heart-shaped icons with checkered patterns display text: 'love' in red, 'is an' in white, and 'under statement' in white across the bottom.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 11:37 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,084 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 576

Review tags

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  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
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  • hearts (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • white
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • two hearts top
  • one heart bottom
  • gray rectangle bottom-right

Dense Caption

Two heart-shaped icons with black-and-white checkered patterns. The top-left heart displays 'love' in red text on a black background. The top-right heart displays 'is an' in white text on a black background. The bottom heart displays 'under statement' in white text on a black background. All hearts have a pixelated, low-resolution appearance. The background is white except for a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner.

Description

Two heart-shaped icons with checkered patterns display text: 'love' in red, 'is an' in white, and 'under statement' in white across the bottom.

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

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • love is an under statement
  • heart checkered text
  • red white black gray
  • pixelated text hearts

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: one heart bottom row
  • quarantined composition: two hearts top row

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text-based

Subjects

  • hearts

Visible Text

  • love
  • is an
  • under statement

Wordwall

  • heart-shaped
  • checkered pattern
  • red text
  • white text
  • love
  • is an
  • under statement
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • gray rectangle
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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
200906060806071786146320
Archive entry
200906060806071786146320.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 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#200906060806071786146320.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200906060806071786146320.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016