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Red background with four black 'ily<3' text icons, one white heart icon at top center, and two white pixelated starburst icons at top right and bottom center.

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Red background with four black 'ily<3' text icons, one white heart icon at top center, and two white pixelated starburst icons at top right and bottom center.

Red background with four black 'ily<3' text icons, one white heart icon at top center, and two white pixelated starburst icons at top right and bottom center. Animated 48×48 GIF A…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central red background
  • four text icons in
  • single heart icon above center
  • two starburst icons at top-right and bottom-center

Dense Caption

Solid red background. Four identical black pixelated text icons reading 'ily<3' positioned in a 2x2 grid (top-left, top-right, bottom-left, bottom-right). One small white heart icon centered above the grid. Two distinct white pixelated starburst icons: one at top right corner and one at center of bottom edge. All elements are static; no visible animation changes across observations.

Description

Red background with four black 'ily<3' text icons, one white heart icon at top center, and two white pixelated starburst icons at top right and bottom center.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200904120955321712849913
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Named Entities

  • I love you

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background buddy icon
  • ily<3 heart starburst icons
  • pixel art text icons
  • buddy icon red white black
  • franksicons 2007-2016

Objects

  • heart

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four text icons in 2x2 grid

Subjects

  • heart symbol
  • text icon

Visible Text

  • ily<3

Visually Supported Entities

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

Wordwall

  • red background
  • four 'ily<3' text icons
  • white heart icon
  • two white starburst icons
  • 'ily<3' text meaning 'I love you'
  • pixelated rendering style

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200904120955321712849913
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
284 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/92/92c43102216647ee7384dd39620121bd86b7cf0978a58954eb84239ba9e486dc.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 UTC
Archive ID
92c43102216647ee
SHA-256
92c43102216647ee7384dd39620121bd86b7cf0978a58954eb84239ba9e486dc
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:10 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.091981

OpenAI category scores

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Red background with four black 'ily<3' text icons, one white heart icon at top center, and two white pixelated starburst icons at top right and bottom center.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 06:25 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,664 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 688

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • heart (object, 0.80)
  • starbursts (object, 0.80)
  • text icons (object, 0.80)
  • buddy icon style (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • starburst symbols (subject, 0.80)
  • text icon (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • central red background
  • four text icons in
  • single heart icon above center
  • two starburst icons at top-right and bottom-center

Dense Caption

Solid red background. Four identical black pixelated text icons reading 'ily<3' positioned in a 2x2 grid (top-left, top-right, bottom-left, bottom-right). One small white heart icon centered above the grid. Two distinct white pixelated starburst icons: one at top right corner and one at center of bottom edge. All elements are static; no visible animation changes across observations.

Description

Red background with four black 'ily<3' text icons, one white heart icon at top center, and two white pixelated starburst icons at top right and bottom center.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200904120955321712849913
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Named Entities

  • I love you

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background buddy icon
  • ily<3 heart starburst icons
  • pixel art text icons
  • buddy icon red white black
  • franksicons 2007-2016

Objects

  • heart
  • starbursts
  • text icons

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four text icons in 2x2 grid

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • buddy-icon style

Subjects

  • heart symbol
  • starburst symbols
  • text icon

Visible Text

  • ily<3

Visually Supported Entities

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

Wordwall

  • red background
  • four 'ily<3' text icons
  • white heart icon
  • two white starburst icons
  • 'ily<3' text meaning 'I love you'
  • pixelated rendering 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
200904120955321712849913
Archive entry
200904120955321712849913.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 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#200904120955321712849913.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200904120955321712849913.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016