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Red background with black text 'love u Eric' repeated, featuring a white pixelated heart symbol replacing the 'i' in 'Eric' on the left side.

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Red background with black text 'love u Eric' repeated, featuring a white pixelated heart symbol replacing the 'i' in 'Eric' on the left side.

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Mood

Color

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Composition

  • horizontal text repetition
  • heart symbol replacing letter
  • static

Dense Caption

Red background with black pixelated text 'love u Eric' repeated horizontally. The leftmost 'Eric' has a white pixelated heart symbol replacing the 'i'. The heart symbol is composed of white pixels forming a stylized heart shape. The text uses a monospaced pixel font. The heart symbol is positioned directly over the 'i' in 'Eric' on the left side of the text. The right side of the text shows 'love u Eric' without the heart symbol. The image has a static composition with no visible animation changes.

Description

Red background with black text 'love u Eric' repeated, featuring a white pixelated heart symbol replacing the 'i' in 'Eric' on the left side.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • love u Eric heart symbol
  • red background pixel art
  • heart replaces i text
  • repeated love u Eric

Objects

  • heart symbol

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • love u Eric

Wordwall

  • red background
  • black text
  • love u Eric
  • white heart symbol
  • pixelated font
  • repeated text
  • heart replaces i
  • monospaced
  • static image

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200711301516142041222621
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:01 UTC

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Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
216 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 15:01 UTC
Archive ID
82837b3e20ddf4c4
SHA-256
82837b3e20ddf4c4dc7bd350895e5b28750d30a82d4af50d0ba66e37bd75985d
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:27 UTC
Run
1105
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image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
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Red background with black text 'love u Eric' repeated, featuring a white pixelated heart symbol replacing the 'i' in 'Eric' on the left side.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 12:35 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
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Tokens
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Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • personalized (mood, 0.80)
  • monospaced font (style, 0.80)
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  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • horizontal text repetition
  • heart symbol replacing letter
  • static

Dense Caption

Red background with black pixelated text 'love u Eric' repeated horizontally. The leftmost 'Eric' has a white pixelated heart symbol replacing the 'i'. The heart symbol is composed of white pixels forming a stylized heart shape. The text uses a monospaced pixel font. The heart symbol is positioned directly over the 'i' in 'Eric' on the left side of the text. The right side of the text shows 'love u Eric' without the heart symbol. The image has a static composition with no visible animation changes.

Description

Red background with black text 'love u Eric' repeated, featuring a white pixelated heart symbol replacing the 'i' in 'Eric' on the left side.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • affectionate
  • personalized

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • love u Eric heart symbol
  • red background pixel art
  • heart replaces i text
  • repeated love u Eric

Objects

  • heart symbol
  • text

Style

  • pixel art
  • monospaced font

Subjects

  • heart symbol
  • text

Visible Text

  • love u Eric

Wordwall

  • red background
  • black text
  • love u Eric
  • white heart symbol
  • pixelated font
  • repeated text
  • heart replaces i
  • monospaced
  • static image
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Run
53
Version
v5
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Error
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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
200711301516142041222621
Archive entry
200711301516142041222621.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:01 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#200711301516142041222621.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200711301516142041222621.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016