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Two red heart-shaped icons with black text "I like" and pixelated question marks on a black background.

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Two red heart-shaped icons with black text "I like" and pixelated question marks on a black background.

Two red heart-shaped icons with black text "I like" and pixelated question marks on a black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • left heart has slightly more rounded edges than right heart

Animation Summary

  • Left heart has slightly more rounded edges than right heart.

Composition

  • two hearts side-by-side
  • centered text
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Red heart shape with black text: top row "I", middle row "like", bottom row six question marks. Background is solid black. Left icon has slightly more rounded heart edges; right icon's heart edges are sharper. Both icons use 8-bit pixel art style with visible dithering on the red fill.

Description

  • Two red heart-shaped icons with black text "I like" and pixelated question marks on a 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200709211913501481471556

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red hearts pixel art
  • I like question marks
  • 8-bit text icons
  • black background pixel art

Visible Text

  • I
  • like
  • ??????

Wordwall

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  • black text
  • I like
  • question marks
  • pixelated
  • solid black background
  • heart shape
  • 8-bit art

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709211913501481471556
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:46 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
841 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 14:46 UTC
Archive ID
793d722389994409
SHA-256
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:07 UTC
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1060
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Two red heart-shaped icons with black text "I like" and pixelated question marks on a black background.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 03:36 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,293 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,147, response 630

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • hearts (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • left heart has slightly more rounded edges than right heart

Animation Summary

  • Left heart has slightly more rounded edges than right heart.

Colors

  • red
  • black

Composition

  • two hearts side-by-side
  • centered text
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Red heart shape with black text: top row "I", middle row "like", bottom row six question marks. Background is solid black. Left icon has slightly more rounded heart edges; right icon's heart edges are sharper. Both icons use 8-bit pixel art style with visible dithering on the red fill.

Description

  • Two red heart-shaped icons with black text "I like" and pixelated question marks on a 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200709211913501481471556

Mood

  • affectionate
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red hearts pixel art
  • I like question marks
  • 8-bit text icons
  • black background pixel art

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit

Subjects

  • hearts

Visible Text

  • I
  • like
  • ??????

Wordwall

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  • black text
  • I like
  • question marks
  • pixelated
  • solid black background
  • heart shape
  • 8-bit art
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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
200709211913501481471556
Archive entry
200709211913501481471556.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:46 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

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