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A static pixel art icon with a black background, featuring a pink heart symbol at the top and white text elements below.

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A static pixel art icon with a black background, featuring a pink heart symbol at the top and white text elements below.

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered heart at top
  • two identical vertical arrangements below
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Black background. Pink pixelated heart symbol (resembling 'B' or stylized heart) centered at top. Below: two identical vertical arrangements of white pixel text. Each arrangement has '<3' above '5/14/09', which is above another '<3'. All elements are static, no animation observed.

Description

  • A static pixel art icon with a black background, featuring a pink heart symbol at the top and white text elements below.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20090515212039465040870

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink heart 5/14/09
  • <3 symbols black background
  • pixel art date text
  • heart symbol white text

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • <3
  • 5/14/09

Wordwall

  • black background
  • pink heart symbol
  • <3 symbols
  • 5/14/09 text
  • pixel art style

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090515212039465040870
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:58 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
232 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8a/8a28fd26726d3051458317cf384a7022788b3e6d4f42f74d7ec0c76220552c2b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:58 UTC
Archive ID
8a28fd26726d3051
SHA-256
8a28fd26726d3051458317cf384a7022788b3e6d4f42f74d7ec0c76220552c2b
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:40 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.085271

OpenAI category scores

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A static pixel art icon with a black background, featuring a pink heart symbol at the top and white text elements below.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 09:50 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,843 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,148, response 630

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • 3 symbols (subject, 0.80)
  • date text (subject, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • pink
  • white

Composition

  • centered heart at top
  • two identical vertical arrangements below
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Black background. Pink pixelated heart symbol (resembling 'B' or stylized heart) centered at top. Below: two identical vertical arrangements of white pixel text. Each arrangement has '<3' above '5/14/09', which is above another '<3'. All elements are static, no animation observed.

Description

  • A static pixel art icon with a black background, featuring a pink heart symbol at the top and white text elements below.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20090515212039465040870

Mood

  • affectionate
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink heart 5/14/09
  • <3 symbols black background
  • pixel art date text
  • heart symbol white text

Style

  • pixel art
  • static

Subjects

  • heart symbol
  • <3 symbols
  • date text

Visible Text

  • <3
  • 5/14/09

Wordwall

  • black background
  • pink heart symbol
  • <3 symbols
  • 5/14/09 text
  • pixel art style
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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
20090515212039465040870
Archive entry
20090515212039465040870.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:58 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#20090515212039465040870.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090515212039465040870.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016