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A static pixel art image with yellow text reading "I Love Alex!!<3" on both sides of a purple heart symbol against black background.

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A static pixel art image with yellow text reading "I Love Alex!!<3" on both sides of a purple heart symbol against black background.

A static pixel art image with yellow text reading "I Love Alex!!<3" on both sides of a purple heart symbol against black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Interne…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered heart above text
  • symmetrical layout
  • two identical text sections

Dense Caption

Black background. Two identical yellow pixelated text blocks: top line 'I', middle line 'Love', bottom line 'Alex!!<3'. Purple pixelated heart symbol centered above the text blocks. Text uses blocky, retro digital font style. No visible animation or motion changes. All elements are static and fixed in position.

Description

  • A static pixel art image with yellow text reading "I Love Alex!!<3" on both sides of a purple heart symbol against 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

Named Entities

  • Alex

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • I Love Alex
  • yellow text purple heart
  • pixel art <3 symbol
  • retro digital font Alex

Objects

  • heart symbol

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • I
  • Love
  • Alex!!<3

Visually Supported Entities

  • Alex

Wordwall

  • yellow text
  • purple heart
  • black background
  • pixel art
  • retro digital font
  • Alex!!<3
  • I Love Alex
  • <3 symbol

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200802021920171134259680
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:12 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
233 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/75/75a06f157be6840d260ca12a90d8dd71054da7dd85d31a377159b2d51abc18ce.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:12 UTC
Archive ID
75a06f157be6840d
SHA-256
75a06f157be6840d260ca12a90d8dd71054da7dd85d31a377159b2d51abc18ce
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:01 UTC
Run
1041
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.097480

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A static pixel art image with yellow text reading "I Love Alex!!<3" on both sides of a purple heart symbol against black background.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 14:43 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,372 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,145, response 558

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
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Colors

  • black
  • yellow
  • purple

Composition

  • centered heart above text
  • symmetrical layout
  • two identical text sections

Dense Caption

Black background. Two identical yellow pixelated text blocks: top line 'I', middle line 'Love', bottom line 'Alex!!<3'. Purple pixelated heart symbol centered above the text blocks. Text uses blocky, retro digital font style. No visible animation or motion changes. All elements are static and fixed in position.

Description

  • A static pixel art image with yellow text reading "I Love Alex!!<3" on both sides of a purple heart symbol against 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

Mood

  • affectionate
  • playful

Named Entities

  • Alex

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • I Love Alex
  • yellow text purple heart
  • pixel art <3 symbol
  • retro digital font Alex

Objects

  • heart symbol
  • text blocks

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • heart symbol
  • text blocks

Visible Text

  • I
  • Love
  • Alex!!<3

Visually Supported Entities

  • Alex

Wordwall

  • yellow text
  • purple heart
  • black background
  • pixel art
  • retro digital font
  • Alex!!<3
  • I Love Alex
  • <3 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
200802021920171134259680
Archive entry
200802021920171134259680.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:12 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#200802021920171134259680.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200802021920171134259680.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016