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Pixelated pink text and heart symbol on dark red background, with one version showing a pixel-art heart replacing the 'i' character.

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Pixelated pink text and heart symbol on dark red background, with one version showing a pixel-art heart replacing the 'i' character.

Pixelated pink text and heart symbol on dark red background, with one version showing a pixel-art heart replacing the 'i' character. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Interne…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • left side: four lines of text
  • right side: three lines of text + heart above 'love'

Dense Caption

Dark red background. Pixelated pink text: "i" (top-left), "love" (middle-left), "you" (bottom-middle-left), "joel<3" (bottom-left). Same text on right side without top-left "i" but with a pixel-art heart symbol replacing the "i" character above "love". All text and symbols are rendered in 8-bit style with visible dithering. The left version has four lines of text; the right version has three lines of text plus one heart symbol.

Description

  • Pixelated pink text and heart symbol on dark red background, with one version showing a pixel-art heart replacing the 'i' character.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i love you joel
  • joel <3
  • pixel art heart icon
  • dark red background pink text

Objects

  • heart symbol

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • i
  • love
  • you
  • joel<3

Visually Supported Entities

  • joel<3

Wordwall

  • dark red background
  • pixelated pink text
  • heart symbol replaces 'i'
  • joel<3
  • 8-bit style
  • dithered rendering

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080327121552745523867
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:20 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
231 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/88/88427a6b7610f881bb2408962549e40ccfa3ad5d62c853dc3e6ff87f4baddd10.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:20 UTC
Archive ID
88427a6b7610f881
SHA-256
88427a6b7610f881bb2408962549e40ccfa3ad5d62c853dc3e6ff87f4baddd10
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:38 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.075181

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated pink text and heart symbol on dark red background, with one version showing a pixel-art heart replacing the 'i' character.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 20:26 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,207 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,142, response 613

Review tags

  • dark red (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • dithered (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • dark red
  • pink

Composition

  • left side: four lines of text
  • right side: three lines of text + heart above 'love'

Dense Caption

Dark red background. Pixelated pink text: "i" (top-left), "love" (middle-left), "you" (bottom-middle-left), "joel<3" (bottom-left). Same text on right side without top-left "i" but with a pixel-art heart symbol replacing the "i" character above "love". All text and symbols are rendered in 8-bit style with visible dithering. The left version has four lines of text; the right version has three lines of text plus one heart symbol.

Description

  • Pixelated pink text and heart symbol on dark red background, with one version showing a pixel-art heart replacing the 'i' character.

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

Mood

  • affectionate
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i love you joel
  • joel <3
  • pixel art heart icon
  • dark red background pink text

Objects

  • heart symbol

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit
  • dithered

Subjects

  • text
  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • i
  • love
  • you
  • joel<3

Visually Supported Entities

  • joel<3

Wordwall

  • dark red background
  • pixelated pink text
  • heart symbol replaces 'i'
  • joel<3
  • 8-bit style
  • dithered rendering
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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
20080327121552745523867
Archive entry
20080327121552745523867.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:20 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#20080327121552745523867.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080327121552745523867.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016