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Red pixelated heart shape above two identical purple pixelated text blocks reading 'i <3 string' on black background.

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Red pixelated heart shape above two identical purple pixelated text blocks reading 'i <3 string' on black background.

Red pixelated heart shape above two identical purple pixelated text blocks reading 'i <3 string' on black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Frank…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • heart centered top
  • text blocks side-by-side
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Red pixelated heart shape positioned at top center. Below it, two identical purple pixelated text blocks side-by-side: each contains a lowercase 'i', a '<3' symbol (left-pointing arrow followed by number 3), and the word 'string' in lowercase. All elements on solid black background. Text and symbols rendered in blocky, low-resolution pixel art style. No visible animation changes.

Description

  • Red pixelated heart shape above two identical purple pixelated text blocks reading 'i <3 string' on black background.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red heart purple text black background
  • i <3 string pixel art
  • two identical text blocks
  • pixelated heart

Objects

  • heart

Subjects

  • heart

Visible Text

  • i
  • <3
  • string

Wordwall

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  • purple text
  • black background
  • i <3 string
  • pixelated
  • blocky art
  • two identical text blocks
  • lowercase letters
  • <3 symbol
  • solid background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070807111045772867671
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
218 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 14:37 UTC
Archive ID
92bd7d0caa54d1a3
SHA-256
92bd7d0caa54d1a3d002c0186172fae960f8f7e65a5eabb17a965a1612ceff61
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:10 UTC
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1133
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image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Red pixelated heart shape above two identical purple pixelated text blocks reading 'i <3 string' on black background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 20:11 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,022 ms
Tokens
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  • black

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  • text blocks side-by-side
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Red pixelated heart shape positioned at top center. Below it, two identical purple pixelated text blocks side-by-side: each contains a lowercase 'i', a '<3' symbol (left-pointing arrow followed by number 3), and the word 'string' in lowercase. All elements on solid black background. Text and symbols rendered in blocky, low-resolution pixel art style. No visible animation changes.

Description

  • Red pixelated heart shape above two identical purple pixelated text blocks reading 'i <3 string' on black background.

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

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  • i <3 string pixel art
  • two identical text blocks
  • pixelated heart

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  • heart
  • text blocks

Style

  • pixel art
  • blocky
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • heart
  • text blocks

Visible Text

  • i
  • <3
  • string

Wordwall

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  • purple text
  • black background
  • i <3 string
  • pixelated
  • blocky art
  • two identical text blocks
  • lowercase letters
  • <3 symbol
  • solid background
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
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Run
52
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v5
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Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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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
20070807111045772867671
Archive entry
20070807111045772867671.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 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#20070807111045772867671.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070807111045772867671.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016