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Pixelated text and a red heart symbol on black background, with two identical static frames showing 'I love Kross' in white block letters.

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Pixelated text and a red heart symbol on black background, with two identical static frames showing 'I love Kross' in white block letters.

Pixelated text and a red heart symbol on black background, with two identical static frames showing 'I love Kross' in white block letters. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from I…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static
  • no visible changes across frames

Composition

  • two text blocks side-by-side
  • heart symbol between text blocks

Dense Caption

Black background. White pixelated text: top row left "I", middle row left "love", bottom row left "Kross"; top row right "I", middle row right "love", bottom row right "Kross". Red pixelated heart symbol between the two text blocks, positioned above and to the right of the left "I". All elements are static across both frames.

Description

  • Pixelated text and a red heart symbol on black background, with two identical static frames showing 'I love Kross' in white block letters.

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

  • Kross

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • I love Kross
  • red heart pixel art
  • two text blocks black background
  • pixelated I love Kross

Objects

  • heart symbol

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • I
  • love
  • Kross

Visually Supported Entities

  • Kross

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • red heart symbol
  • two identical text blocks
  • "I love Kross" text
  • pixel art style

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200901110948501634047361
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
224 bytes
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 15:48 UTC
Archive ID
770baf98e55a4c44
SHA-256
770baf98e55a4c449cb04a1ec9442956ef644a5f204a06e7573d00d8839337c9
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:02 UTC
Run
1047
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.086565

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text and a red heart symbol on black background, with two identical static frames showing 'I love Kross' in white block letters.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 17:40 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,720 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,149, response 578

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • no visible changes across frames (other, 0.80)
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  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static
  • no visible changes across frames

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • red

Composition

  • two text blocks side-by-side
  • heart symbol between text blocks

Dense Caption

Black background. White pixelated text: top row left "I", middle row left "love", bottom row left "Kross"; top row right "I", middle row right "love", bottom row right "Kross". Red pixelated heart symbol between the two text blocks, positioned above and to the right of the left "I". All elements are static across both frames.

Description

  • Pixelated text and a red heart symbol on black background, with two identical static frames showing 'I love Kross' in white block letters.

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

Named Entities

  • Kross

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • I love Kross
  • red heart pixel art
  • two text blocks black background
  • pixelated I love Kross

Objects

  • heart symbol

Style

  • pixelated
  • block letters

Subjects

  • text
  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • I
  • love
  • Kross

Visually Supported Entities

  • Kross

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • red heart symbol
  • two identical text blocks
  • "I love Kross" text
  • pixel art style
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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
200901110948501634047361
Archive entry
200901110948501634047361.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 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#200901110948501634047361.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200901110948501634047361.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016