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Black background with white pixelated text 'i love Sal' repeated four times and two pixelated heart symbols, one white and one gray.

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Black background with white pixelated text 'i love Sal' repeated four times and two pixelated heart symbols, one white and one gray.

Black background with white pixelated text 'i love Sal' repeated four times and two pixelated heart symbols, one white and one gray. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Interne…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • heart symbols change color from white to gray

Animation Summary

  • Heart symbols transition from white to gray across observations.

Composition

  • four text instances
  • three heart symbols

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text 'i love Sal' repeated four times in a grid layout. Top-left and bottom-left text is white; top-right and bottom-right text is light gray. Top-center has a white pixelated heart; right-center has a gray pixelated heart; bottom-right has a gray pixelated heart. Text is rendered in a retro digital font with visible pixelation. All elements are static except for the heart symbols' color variation.

Description

  • Black background with white pixelated text 'i love Sal' repeated four times and two pixelated heart symbols, one white and one gray.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20070822111635280111424
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i love Sal pixelated hearts
  • black background white text gray hearts
  • retro digital font hearts
  • four i love Sal text instances

Objects

  • heart symbols

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Subjects

  • heart symbols

Visible Text

  • i love Sal

Wordwall

  • i love Sal
  • pixelated text
  • black background
  • white heart
  • gray heart
  • retro digital font
  • four text instances
  • heart symbols

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070822111635280111424
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
770 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/85/859d937d465e53ff7679ecf99bbe916dbd5c7ed94a9ec8dc12fa9187329b8adf.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 UTC
Archive ID
859d937d465e53ff
SHA-256
859d937d465e53ff7679ecf99bbe916dbd5c7ed94a9ec8dc12fa9187329b8adf
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:34 UTC
Run
1121
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.072558

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Black background with white pixelated text 'i love Sal' repeated four times and two pixelated heart symbols, one white and one gray.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 03:53 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,618 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,106, response 695

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • heart symbols change color from white to gray (other, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbols (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • heart symbols change color from white to gray

Animation Summary

  • Heart symbols transition from white to gray across observations.

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • four text instances
  • three heart symbols

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text 'i love Sal' repeated four times in a grid layout. Top-left and bottom-left text is white; top-right and bottom-right text is light gray. Top-center has a white pixelated heart; right-center has a gray pixelated heart; bottom-right has a gray pixelated heart. Text is rendered in a retro digital font with visible pixelation. All elements are static except for the heart symbols' color variation.

Description

  • Black background with white pixelated text 'i love Sal' repeated four times and two pixelated heart symbols, one white and one gray.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20070822111635280111424
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • affectionate
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i love Sal pixelated hearts
  • black background white text gray hearts
  • retro digital font hearts
  • four i love Sal text instances

Objects

  • heart symbols

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • text
  • heart symbols

Visible Text

  • i love Sal

Wordwall

  • i love Sal
  • pixelated text
  • black background
  • white heart
  • gray heart
  • retro digital font
  • four text instances
  • heart symbols
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 12:39 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
20070822111635280111424
Archive entry
20070822111635280111424.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 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#20070822111635280111424.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070822111635280111424.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016