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Pixelated green background with white text and symbols: 'love ??' repeated twice, a heart symbol above the first 'love', and 'eww' below each 'love'.

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Pixelated green background with white text and symbols: 'love ??' repeated twice, a heart symbol above the first 'love', and 'eww' below each 'love'.

Pixelated green background with white text and symbols: 'love ??' repeated twice, a heart symbol above the first 'love', and 'eww' below each 'love'. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • horizontal text layout
  • symmetrical arrangement of 'love ??' pairs
  • heart icon centered above second 'love ??'
  • 'eww' positioned below each 'love ??' pair

Dense Caption

Bright lime-green background. White pixelated text: top row left to right shows 'l o v e ? ?' followed by a stylized white heart icon (composed of pixels) positioned directly above the second question mark, then another 'l o v e ? ?', with each 'love ??' pair separated by one space; bottom row displays two identical instances of 'e w w' text below the respective 'love ??' pairs. All elements are static and pixelated.

Description

Pixelated green background with white text and symbols: 'love ??' repeated twice, a heart symbol above the first 'love', and 'eww' below each 'love'.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070929215109747475369

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • lime-green pixel art love eww
  • love ?? heart icon eeww
  • pixelated text green background
  • heart above question marks

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Visible Text

  • love ??
  • eww

Wordwall

  • lime-green background
  • white pixelated text
  • 'love ??' repeated twice
  • stylized heart icon above second '? ?'
  • 'eww' repeated twice
  • pixel art style

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070929215109747475369
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:48 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
204 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/90/90374329e000f88e38e8b11e7caec2f2e19f0d67c8f59ecc35dd65edf8ac4bb1.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:48 UTC
Archive ID
90374329e000f88e
SHA-256
90374329e000f88e38e8b11e7caec2f2e19f0d67c8f59ecc35dd65edf8ac4bb1
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:53 UTC
Run
1128
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.091881

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated green background with white text and symbols: 'love ??' repeated twice, a heart symbol above the first 'love', and 'eww' below each 'love'.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 05:56 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,285 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,143, response 678

Review tags

  • lime green (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • lime-green
  • white

Composition

  • horizontal text layout
  • symmetrical arrangement of 'love ??' pairs
  • heart icon centered above second 'love ??'
  • 'eww' positioned below each 'love ??' pair

Dense Caption

Bright lime-green background. White pixelated text: top row left to right shows 'l o v e ? ?' followed by a stylized white heart icon (composed of pixels) positioned directly above the second question mark, then another 'l o v e ? ?', with each 'love ??' pair separated by one space; bottom row displays two identical instances of 'e w w' text below the respective 'love ??' pairs. All elements are static and pixelated.

Description

Pixelated green background with white text and symbols: 'love ??' repeated twice, a heart symbol above the first 'love', and 'eww' below each 'love'.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070929215109747475369

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • lime-green pixel art love eww
  • love ?? heart icon eeww
  • pixelated text green background
  • heart above question marks

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • love ??
  • eww

Wordwall

  • lime-green background
  • white pixelated text
  • 'love ??' repeated twice
  • stylized heart icon above second '? ?'
  • 'eww' repeated twice
  • 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
20070929215109747475369
Archive entry
20070929215109747475369.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:48 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#20070929215109747475369.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070929215109747475369.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016