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Pixelated blue text on black background with red heart symbol above text, showing two identical static frames.

Pixelated blue text on black background with red heart symbol above text, showing two identical static frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • vertical text arrangement
  • heart symbol above text
  • two identical frames side-by-side

Dense Caption

Black background with blue pixelated text reading "i love my T's <3 [:" arranged vertically; red pixelated heart symbol positioned above the text; two identical static frames displayed side-by-side; text uses lowercase letters with "T's" in uppercase; "<3" is a heart symbol; "[:" is a smiling face; all elements are rendered in 8-bit style with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated blue text on black background with red heart symbol above text, showing two identical static frames.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue text black background red heart
  • i love my T's <3 [:
  • pixelated heart symbol
  • 8-bit style text
  • two identical frames
  • vertical text arrangement
  • heart symbol above text
  • smiling face symbol

Objects

  • heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: two frames

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • i
  • love
  • my
  • T's
  • <3
  • [:

Wordwall

  • blue text
  • black background
  • red heart symbol
  • pixelated
  • 8-bit style
  • i love my T's
  • <3 [:
  • identical frames
  • vertical text
  • lowercase letters
  • T's uppercase
  • heart symbol
  • smiling face
  • text arrangement
  • pixelation
  • static frames
  • side-by-side
  • vertical alignment
  • lowercase i
  • 3 symbol
  • [: symbol
  • blue pixels
  • red pixels
  • black pixels
  • text layout
  • pixelated font
  • identical content

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200905301138361534279477
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:58 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
816 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
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 15:58 UTC
Archive ID
8d7f3e696e3ef537
SHA-256
8d7f3e696e3ef537399c37dbb1e23df3fdaab3123aa3f179086cb6aa805a99f0
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 14, 2026 at 10:10 UTC
Run
1290
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000488

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:53 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.149926

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated blue text on black background with red heart symbol above text, showing two identical static frames.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 11:04 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,650 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,145, response 749

Review tags

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  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
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  • static (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • smiling face (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • blue
  • red

Composition

  • vertical text arrangement
  • heart symbol above text
  • two identical frames side-by-side

Dense Caption

Black background with blue pixelated text reading "i love my T's <3 [:" arranged vertically; red pixelated heart symbol positioned above the text; two identical static frames displayed side-by-side; text uses lowercase letters with "T's" in uppercase; "<3" is a heart symbol; "[:" is a smiling face; all elements are rendered in 8-bit style with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated blue text on black background with red heart symbol above text, showing two identical static frames.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • affectionate
  • playful

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  • i love my T's <3 [:
  • pixelated heart symbol
  • 8-bit style text
  • two identical frames
  • vertical text arrangement
  • heart symbol above text
  • smiling face symbol

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  • smiling face

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Style

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  • 8-bit
  • text-based
  • static

Subjects

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  • heart symbol
  • smiling face

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  • <3
  • [:

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  • heart symbol
  • smiling face
  • text arrangement
  • pixelation
  • static frames
  • side-by-side
  • vertical alignment
  • lowercase i
  • 3 symbol
  • [: symbol
  • blue pixels
  • red pixels
  • black pixels
  • text layout
  • pixelated font
  • identical content
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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
200905301138361534279477
Archive entry
200905301138361534279477.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#200905301138361534279477.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200905301138361534279477.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016