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Red heart symbol above repeated white text on black background with pixelated font style.

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Red heart symbol above repeated white text on black background with pixelated font style.

Red heart symbol above repeated white text on black background with pixelated font style. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…,…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation Summary

  • No animation observed; single static frame provided.

Composition

  • centered heart above two- text

Dense Caption

Black background displays red pixelated heart at top center. Below, two identical vertical columns of white pixelated text: first column reads 'i love this', 'Retard', 'I call my', 'Best friend'; second column mirrors the same four lines. Text uses blocky 8-bit font with visible dithering and slight horizontal distortion in some characters. No animation observed.

Description

  • Red heart symbol above repeated white text on black background with pixelated font style.

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.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200911141143531053495708

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red heart white text black background
  • pixelated 8-bit text
  • i love this retard I call my best friend
  • two- pixel art text

Objects

  • heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation detected; single static frame provided.
  • quarantined composition: centered heart above two-column text
  • quarantined retrieval: two-column pixel art text
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated 8-bit text columns

Visible Text

  • i love this
  • Retard
  • I call my
  • Best friend

Wordwall

  • red heart symbol
  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • blocky 8-bit font
  • dithered text
  • horizontal character distortion

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200911141143531053495708
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.2 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8f/8f57316362be947ad733abfaf911dcf74caaf51626e37932d5c1d3666277c592.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 UTC
Archive ID
8f57316362be947a
SHA-256
8f57316362be947ad733abfaf911dcf74caaf51626e37932d5c1d3666277c592
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:52 UTC
Run
1128
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.102318

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Red heart symbol above repeated white text on black background with pixelated font style.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 20:15 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,783 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,145, response 568

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • ironic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No animation observed; single static frame provided.

Colors

  • black
  • red
  • white

Composition

  • centered heart above two- text

Dense Caption

Black background displays red pixelated heart at top center. Below, two identical vertical columns of white pixelated text: first column reads 'i love this', 'Retard', 'I call my', 'Best friend'; second column mirrors the same four lines. Text uses blocky 8-bit font with visible dithering and slight horizontal distortion in some characters. No animation observed.

Description

  • Red heart symbol above repeated white text on black background with pixelated font style.

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.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200911141143531053495708

Mood

  • playful
  • ironic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red heart white text black background
  • pixelated 8-bit text
  • i love this retard I call my best friend
  • two- pixel art text

Objects

  • heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation detected; single static frame provided.
  • quarantined composition: centered heart above two-column text
  • quarantined retrieval: two-column pixel art text
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated 8-bit text columns

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • i love this
  • Retard
  • I call my
  • Best friend

Wordwall

  • red heart symbol
  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • blocky 8-bit font
  • dithered text
  • horizontal character distortion
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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
200911141143531053495708
Archive entry
200911141143531053495708.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 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#200911141143531053495708.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200911141143531053495708.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016