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Pixelated text 'ily alex!' with '<3' below on bright pink background, accompanied by cyan heart and dot cluster animations.

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Pixelated text 'ily alex!' with '<3' below on bright pink background, accompanied by cyan heart and dot cluster animations.

Pixelated text 'ily alex!' with '<3' below on bright pink background, accompanied by cyan heart and dot cluster animations. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • heart appears in top-left quadrant
  • dots scatter in top-right quadrant
  • dots cluster in bottom-left quadrant
  • bottom-right quadrant remains static

Animation Summary

  • Heart appears, dots scatter, then cluster across four states; bottom-right remains static.

Composition

  • centered text
  • four quadrants with animation variations

Dense Caption

Bright pink background displays pixelated white text 'ily alex!' stacked above '<3'. Four distinct animation states: top-left shows a solid cyan heart; top-right shows scattered cyan dots; bottom-left shows a dense cyan dot cluster; bottom-right is static with no additional symbols. All four states share identical text and layout.

Description

  • Pixelated text 'ily alex!' with '<3' below on bright pink background, accompanied by cyan heart and dot cluster animations.

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

  • ily alex heart cyan
  • ily alex dot cluster pink background
  • pixel art text icon animation
  • cyan heart and dots ily alex

Style

  • text-based icon

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • ily alex!
  • <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • text 'ily alex!'

Wordwall

  • bright pink background
  • pixelated white text
  • 'ily alex!' stacked above '<3'
  • cyan heart animation
  • cyan dot cluster animation
  • static state without symbols

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200808201717052046376933
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
838 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 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 15:37 UTC
Archive ID
7d3dc83f2c04cd82
SHA-256
7d3dc83f2c04cd82fbb19162464f5b52cb04db73af5f9f52e54d2da4a6a232e5
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:15 UTC
Run
1079
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.077618

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text 'ily alex!' with '<3' below on bright pink background, accompanied by cyan heart and dot cluster animations.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 20:35 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
13,919 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 627

Review tags

  • dots cluster (action, 0.80)
  • dots scatter (action, 0.80)
  • heart appears (action, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • cyan dots (object, 0.80)
  • cyan heart (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • text based icon (style, 0.80)
  • dot cluster (subject, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text ily alex (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • heart appears
  • dots scatter
  • dots cluster

Animation

  • heart appears in top-left quadrant
  • dots scatter in top-right quadrant
  • dots cluster in bottom-left quadrant
  • bottom-right quadrant remains static

Animation Summary

  • Heart appears, dots scatter, then cluster across four states; bottom-right remains static.

Colors

  • bright pink
  • white
  • cyan

Composition

  • centered text
  • four quadrants with animation variations

Dense Caption

Bright pink background displays pixelated white text 'ily alex!' stacked above '<3'. Four distinct animation states: top-left shows a solid cyan heart; top-right shows scattered cyan dots; bottom-left shows a dense cyan dot cluster; bottom-right is static with no additional symbols. All four states share identical text and layout.

Description

  • Pixelated text 'ily alex!' with '<3' below on bright pink background, accompanied by cyan heart and dot cluster animations.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • ily alex heart cyan
  • ily alex dot cluster pink background
  • pixel art text icon animation
  • cyan heart and dots ily alex

Objects

  • cyan heart
  • cyan dots

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • text-based icon

Subjects

  • text 'ily alex!'
  • heart symbol
  • dot cluster

Visible Text

  • ily alex!
  • <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • text 'ily alex!'

Wordwall

  • bright pink background
  • pixelated white text
  • 'ily alex!' stacked above '<3'
  • cyan heart animation
  • cyan dot cluster animation
  • static state without symbols
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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
200808201717052046376933
Archive entry
200808201717052046376933.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 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#200808201717052046376933.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200808201717052046376933.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016