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Pixelated pink text and symbols on black background, showing 'I <3 My Friends' with a heart symbol above the text.

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Pixelated pink text and symbols on black background, showing 'I <3 My Friends' with a heart symbol above the text.

Pixelated pink text and symbols on black background, showing 'I <3 My Friends' with a heart symbol above the text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIc…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered heart
  • left-aligned text
  • mirrored right side

Dense Caption

Black background with pixelated pink text and symbols. Top center shows a pixelated heart symbol. Below the heart, left-aligned text reads 'I' (single letter), then '<3' (heart symbol), then 'My', then 'Friends' (two lines). Right side mirrors the left with identical text and symbols. All text and symbols are rendered in bright pink pixels. The image is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated pink text and symbols on black background, showing 'I <3 My Friends' with a heart symbol above the text.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink text black background
  • I <3 My Friends
  • pixelated heart symbol
  • mirrored layout
  • left-aligned text
  • two-line Friends
  • bright pink pixels
  • text-based icon

Objects

  • heart symbol

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • I
  • <3
  • My
  • Friends

Wordwall

  • black background
  • pink text
  • pixelated heart symbol
  • I <3 My Friends
  • left-aligned text
  • two-line 'Friends'
  • mirrored layout
  • bright pink pixels

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20100209123216929959964
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:05 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
241 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/94/94705163b324f98918ba886e68403fd4abf85a9f523e9f6bad44ee07d6ba9fbe.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:05 UTC
Archive ID
94705163b324f989
SHA-256
94705163b324f98918ba886e68403fd4abf85a9f523e9f6bad44ee07d6ba9fbe
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
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
0.102212

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated pink text and symbols on black background, showing 'I <3 My Friends' with a heart symbol above the text.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 17:00 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,226 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,142, response 668

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • affirmative (mood, 0.80)
  • friendly (mood, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • pink

Composition

  • centered heart
  • left-aligned text
  • mirrored right side

Dense Caption

Black background with pixelated pink text and symbols. Top center shows a pixelated heart symbol. Below the heart, left-aligned text reads 'I' (single letter), then '<3' (heart symbol), then 'My', then 'Friends' (two lines). Right side mirrors the left with identical text and symbols. All text and symbols are rendered in bright pink pixels. The image is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated pink text and symbols on black background, showing 'I <3 My Friends' with a heart symbol above the text.

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

Mood

  • affirmative
  • friendly

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink text black background
  • I <3 My Friends
  • pixelated heart symbol
  • mirrored layout
  • left-aligned text
  • two-line Friends
  • bright pink pixels
  • text-based icon

Objects

  • heart symbol

Style

  • pixel art
  • text-based

Subjects

  • text
  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • I
  • <3
  • My
  • Friends

Wordwall

  • black background
  • pink text
  • pixelated heart symbol
  • I <3 My Friends
  • left-aligned text
  • two-line 'Friends'
  • mirrored layout
  • bright pink pixels
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 22:08 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
20100209123216929959964
Archive entry
20100209123216929959964.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:05 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#20100209123216929959964.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20100209123216929959964.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016