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Black background with white pixelated text "I love you Brian <3" repeated twice, two heart symbols in center and right side.

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Black background with white pixelated text "I love you Brian <3" repeated twice, two heart symbols in center and right side.

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static image with no motion changes

Composition

  • centered text block
  • heart symbols on right edges

Dense Caption

Black background displays white pixelated text: top row reads "I love you I love you", second row reads "Brian <3 Brian <3"; third row contains a white heart symbol centered above the bottom text block. A gray heart appears on the right edge of the image, and another gray heart is positioned at the bottom-right corner. The text uses a retro digital font with consistent spacing between characters.

Description

  • Black background with white pixelated text "I love you Brian <3" repeated twice, two heart symbols in center and right side.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Brian

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

Named Entities

  • Brian

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • I love you Brian
  • <3 heart text
  • pixelated affectionate message
  • black background white hearts

Visible Text

  • I love you I love you
  • Brian <3 Brian <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • Brian

Wordwall

  • white pixelated text
  • "I love you"
  • "Brian <3"
  • black background
  • two white hearts
  • two gray hearts
  • retro digital font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200801242058171198938188
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
290 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/84/84534f0075604031e190f6efde8811030c6f4ae2fe5d3b9eabee124f29514798.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 UTC
Archive ID
84534f0075604031
SHA-256
84534f0075604031e190f6efde8811030c6f4ae2fe5d3b9eabee124f29514798
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:31 UTC
Run
1115
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.085879

OpenAI category scores

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Black background with white pixelated text "I love you Brian <3" repeated twice, two heart symbols in center and right side.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 12:46 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,061 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 594

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • sentimental (mood, 0.80)
  • static image with no motion changes (other, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • hearts (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static image with no motion changes

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • centered text block
  • heart symbols on right edges

Dense Caption

Black background displays white pixelated text: top row reads "I love you I love you", second row reads "Brian <3 Brian <3"; third row contains a white heart symbol centered above the bottom text block. A gray heart appears on the right edge of the image, and another gray heart is positioned at the bottom-right corner. The text uses a retro digital font with consistent spacing between characters.

Description

  • Black background with white pixelated text "I love you Brian <3" repeated twice, two heart symbols in center and right side.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Brian

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

Mood

  • affectionate
  • sentimental

Named Entities

  • Brian

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • I love you Brian
  • <3 heart text
  • pixelated affectionate message
  • black background white hearts

Objects

  • hearts

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • text
  • hearts

Visible Text

  • I love you I love you
  • Brian <3 Brian <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • Brian

Wordwall

  • white pixelated text
  • "I love you"
  • "Brian <3"
  • black background
  • two white hearts
  • two gray hearts
  • retro digital font
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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
200801242058171198938188
Archive entry
200801242058171198938188.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 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#200801242058171198938188.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200801242058171198938188.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016