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Pixelated text reads 'I LOVE U JOHN<3' in pink on black background with cyan heart below.

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Pixelated text reads 'I LOVE U JOHN<3' in pink on black background with cyan heart below.

Pixelated text reads 'I LOVE U JOHN<3' in pink on black background with cyan heart below. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…,…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • vertical text layout
  • two hearts below text
  • centered text

Dense Caption

Black background with pink pixelated text arranged vertically: 'I' at top, 'LOVE' below it, 'U' below 'LOVE', 'JOHN<3' at bottom. Two cyan pixelated hearts appear below the text, one on left side and one on right side. Text uses blocky, retro digital font. All elements are static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated text reads 'I LOVE U JOHN<3' in pink on black background with cyan heart below.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink text I LOVE U JOHN<3 cyan hearts
  • retro digital heart icon
  • pixelated I LOVE U JOHN<3
  • cyan hearts black background

Visible Text

  • I
  • LOVE
  • U
  • JOHN<3

Wordwall

  • pink text
  • cyan hearts
  • black background
  • pixelated font
  • I LOVE U JOHN<3
  • retro digital style
  • vertical text layout
  • heart symbol <3

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200812031514091651140625
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:45 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
232 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/98/9870ee85fd3920a22f45f52c83667bcc1091cfc1187b1c96a48b592e687608ca.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:45 UTC
Archive ID
9870ee85fd3920a2
SHA-256
9870ee85fd3920a22f45f52c83667bcc1091cfc1187b1c96a48b592e687608ca
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:13 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.099378

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text reads 'I LOVE U JOHN<3' in pink on black background with cyan heart below.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 12:02 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,290 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,147, response 583

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • hearts (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • pink
  • cyan

Composition

  • vertical text layout
  • two hearts below text
  • centered text

Dense Caption

Black background with pink pixelated text arranged vertically: 'I' at top, 'LOVE' below it, 'U' below 'LOVE', 'JOHN<3' at bottom. Two cyan pixelated hearts appear below the text, one on left side and one on right side. Text uses blocky, retro digital font. All elements are static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated text reads 'I LOVE U JOHN<3' in pink on black background with cyan heart below.

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

Mood

  • affectionate
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink text I LOVE U JOHN<3 cyan hearts
  • retro digital heart icon
  • pixelated I LOVE U JOHN<3
  • cyan hearts black background

Objects

  • hearts

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • text
  • hearts

Visible Text

  • I
  • LOVE
  • U
  • JOHN<3

Wordwall

  • pink text
  • cyan hearts
  • black background
  • pixelated font
  • I LOVE U JOHN<3
  • retro digital style
  • vertical text layout
  • heart symbol <3
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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
200812031514091651140625
Archive entry
200812031514091651140625.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:45 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#200812031514091651140625.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200812031514091651140625.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016