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Black text "I" and "NY" flanking a red heart symbol on white background.

Black text "I" and "NY" flanking a red heart symbol on white background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Sh…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered elements
  • vertical alignment of text and heart

Dense Caption

Static pixel art icon with black serif-style lettering: uppercase "I" positioned above the left side of a large red heart, which sits directly above lowercase "N" and "Y" letters. The heart is solid red with no internal details or gradients. All elements are centered on a plain white background. Pixelation indicates low-resolution rendering typical of early 2000s digital graphics.

Description

  • Black text "I" and "NY" flanking a red heart symbol on white background.

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
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • I heart NY icon
  • red heart I NY text
  • NY love symbol pixel art
  • black white red text heart

Objects

  • heart symbol

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • I
  • NY

Visually Supported Entities

  • New York City (implied by NY)
  • I Love New York (implied by I + heart + NY)

Wordwall

  • red heart symbol
  • black text I NY
  • white background
  • serif font style
  • low resolution pixel art

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200711091003341326527099
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:54 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.4 KB
Motion
Still image
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 14:54 UTC
Archive ID
86e293035300c0ba
SHA-256
86e293035300c0bae44c24c5a519a3f9b4146c6fac3e6960413b3220ec5d64a7
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:37 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.080660

OpenAI category scores

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Black text "I" and "NY" flanking a red heart symbol on white background.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 16:25 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,787 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,096, response 608

Review tags

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  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • letter i (object, 0.80)
  • letter n (object, 0.80)
  • letter y (object, 0.80)
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  • serif font (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text characters (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • centered elements
  • vertical alignment of text and heart

Dense Caption

Static pixel art icon with black serif-style lettering: uppercase "I" positioned above the left side of a large red heart, which sits directly above lowercase "N" and "Y" letters. The heart is solid red with no internal details or gradients. All elements are centered on a plain white background. Pixelation indicates low-resolution rendering typical of early 2000s digital graphics.

Description

  • Black text "I" and "NY" flanking a red heart symbol on white background.

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
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • I heart NY icon
  • red heart I NY text
  • NY love symbol pixel art
  • black white red text heart

Objects

  • heart symbol
  • letter I
  • letter N
  • letter Y

Style

  • pixel art
  • serif font
  • minimalist

Subjects

  • heart symbol
  • text characters

Visible Text

  • I
  • NY

Visually Supported Entities

  • New York City (implied by NY)
  • I Love New York (implied by I + heart + NY)

Wordwall

  • red heart symbol
  • black text I NY
  • white background
  • serif font style
  • low resolution pixel art
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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
200711091003341326527099
Archive entry
200711091003341326527099.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:54 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#200711091003341326527099.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200711091003341326527099.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016