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Red pixelated text and a heart symbol on black background, with identical left and right sections.

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Red pixelated text and a heart symbol on black background, with identical left and right sections.

Red pixelated text and a heart symbol on black background, with identical left and right sections. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • two vertical
  • symmetrical layout
  • centered heart above text

Dense Caption

Black background displays red pixelated text: 'i love john' in two vertical columns. Left column has an additional red pixelated heart symbol above the top 'i'. Both columns share identical text layout and color scheme. Text uses a blocky 8-bit style with no anti-aliasing or gradients.

Description

  • Red pixelated text and a heart symbol on black background, with identical left and right sections.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200711071213281262158117

Named Entities

  • john

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red pixelated i love john
  • heart symbol text icon
  • black background 8-bit text
  • symmetrical red text heart

Objects

  • heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: two vertical columns
  • quarantined composition: two vertical columns

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • i love john

Wordwall

  • red pixelated text
  • black background
  • heart symbol
  • two vertical
  • identical left-right sections
  • blocky 8-bit font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200711071213281262158117
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:53 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
215 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/9a/9a5c0d32b5a7b8fa5e1edec957db0bb1645252b8ac358cec92ad30e5ae5b5022.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:53 UTC
Archive ID
9a5c0d32b5a7b8fa
SHA-256
9a5c0d32b5a7b8fa5e1edec957db0bb1645252b8ac358cec92ad30e5ae5b5022
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:15 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.103097

OpenAI category scores

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Red pixelated text and a heart symbol on black background, with identical left and right sections.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 15:57 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,730 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,143, response 619

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • black

Composition

  • two vertical
  • symmetrical layout
  • centered heart above text

Dense Caption

Black background displays red pixelated text: 'i love john' in two vertical columns. Left column has an additional red pixelated heart symbol above the top 'i'. Both columns share identical text layout and color scheme. Text uses a blocky 8-bit style with no anti-aliasing or gradients.

Description

  • Red pixelated text and a heart symbol on black background, with identical left and right sections.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200711071213281262158117

Mood

  • affectionate
  • nostalgic

Named Entities

  • john

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red pixelated i love john
  • heart symbol text icon
  • black background 8-bit text
  • symmetrical red text heart

Objects

  • heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: two vertical columns
  • quarantined composition: two vertical columns

Style

  • pixelated
  • 8-bit
  • blocky

Subjects

  • text
  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • i love john

Wordwall

  • red pixelated text
  • black background
  • heart symbol
  • two vertical
  • identical left-right sections
  • blocky 8-bit font
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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
200711071213281262158117
Archive entry
200711071213281262158117.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:53 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#200711071213281262158117.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200711071213281262158117.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016