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Pixelated text and a red heart symbol on black background with repeated 'oalerc' text at bottom.

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Pixelated text and a red heart symbol on black background with repeated 'oalerc' text at bottom.

Pixelated text and a red heart symbol on black background with repeated 'oalerc' text at bottom. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy I…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered heart
  • symmetrical text layout
  • bottom repeating line

Dense Caption

Black background displays white pixelated text: left side shows 'love', 'is', 'a'; center features a solid red heart; right side mirrors left. Bottom row contains repeating white pixelated text 'oalerc'. All elements are static with no visible animation changes across observations. Text uses 8-bit style font, heart is filled red without outline.

Description

  • Pixelated text and a red heart symbol on black background with repeated 'oalerc' text at 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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • love is a heart oalerc
  • pixelated text red heart black background
  • 8-bit font repeating 'oalerc'
  • heart symbol white text black

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • love
  • is
  • a
  • oalerc

Visually Supported Entities

  • heart symbol

Wordwall

  • white pixelated text
  • red heart symbol
  • black background
  • repeating 'oalerc' text
  • 'love is a' phrase
  • 8-bit font style

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200801020755201370758879
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:08 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
248 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/80/80f3b83c6800e4d9d8007d659ea1de76f996778acce2b3b89110055d0321455d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:08 UTC
Archive ID
80f3b83c6800e4d9
SHA-256
80f3b83c6800e4d9d8007d659ea1de76f996778acce2b3b89110055d0321455d
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:18 UTC
Run
1034
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.079468

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text and a red heart symbol on black background with repeated 'oalerc' text at bottom.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 06:56 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,914 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,149, response 577

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • red

Composition

  • centered heart
  • symmetrical text layout
  • bottom repeating line

Dense Caption

Black background displays white pixelated text: left side shows 'love', 'is', 'a'; center features a solid red heart; right side mirrors left. Bottom row contains repeating white pixelated text 'oalerc'. All elements are static with no visible animation changes across observations. Text uses 8-bit style font, heart is filled red without outline.

Description

  • Pixelated text and a red heart symbol on black background with repeated 'oalerc' text at 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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • love is a heart oalerc
  • pixelated text red heart black background
  • 8-bit font repeating 'oalerc'
  • heart symbol white text black

Style

  • pixelated
  • 8-bit
  • text-based

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • love
  • is
  • a
  • oalerc

Visually Supported Entities

  • heart symbol

Wordwall

  • white pixelated text
  • red heart symbol
  • black background
  • repeating 'oalerc' text
  • 'love is a' phrase
  • 8-bit font 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
200801020755201370758879
Archive entry
200801020755201370758879.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:08 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#200801020755201370758879.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200801020755201370758879.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016