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Red background with black pixelated text reading '<3 him and he knows it' and a white heart symbol replacing the '3' in the first line.

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Red background with black pixelated text reading '<3 him and he knows it' and a white heart symbol replacing the '3' in the first line.

Red background with black pixelated text reading '<3 him and he knows it' and a white heart symbol replacing the '3' in the first line. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Inte…

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Mood

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Source terms

Composition

  • text arranged in three lines
  • heart symbol replacing '3' in '<3'

Dense Caption

Red background with black pixelated text reading '<3 him and he knows it' across three lines. The first line contains '<3 him' with the '3' replaced by a white heart symbol. The second line reads 'and he'. The third line reads 'knows it'. The text is rendered in a blocky, low-resolution style typical of early digital graphics. The heart symbol is white and pixelated, positioned where the '3' would be in the '<3' emoticon. The entire composition is static with no visible animation.

Description

  • Red background with black pixelated text reading '<3 him and he knows it' and a white heart symbol replacing the '3' in the first line.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background black text heart symbol
  • him and he knows it
  • pixelated text heart symbol
  • blocky low-resolution text

Objects

  • heart symbol

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • <3 him
  • and he
  • knows it

Wordwall

  • red background
  • black pixelated text
  • <3 him
  • and he
  • knows it
  • white heart symbol
  • blocky low-resolution style
  • static image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200707301945312138410999
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
259 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 14:35 UTC
Archive ID
9ed696147c4b1353
SHA-256
9ed696147c4b1353fc479f2b8bf7d9d0f08fbe3d2bd9fe37b970f59b919e3f98
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:17 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Red background with black pixelated text reading '<3 him and he knows it' and a white heart symbol replacing the '3' in the first line.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 16:39 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,677 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,146, response 647

Review tags

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  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
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  • red
  • black
  • white

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  • text arranged in three lines
  • heart symbol replacing '3' in '<3'

Dense Caption

Red background with black pixelated text reading '<3 him and he knows it' across three lines. The first line contains '<3 him' with the '3' replaced by a white heart symbol. The second line reads 'and he'. The third line reads 'knows it'. The text is rendered in a blocky, low-resolution style typical of early digital graphics. The heart symbol is white and pixelated, positioned where the '3' would be in the '<3' emoticon. The entire composition is static with no visible animation.

Description

  • Red background with black pixelated text reading '<3 him and he knows it' and a white heart symbol replacing the '3' in the first line.

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

Mood

  • affectionate
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background black text heart symbol
  • him and he knows it
  • pixelated text heart symbol
  • blocky low-resolution text

Objects

  • heart symbol

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • text
  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • <3 him
  • and he
  • knows it

Wordwall

  • red background
  • black pixelated text
  • <3 him
  • and he
  • knows it
  • white heart symbol
  • blocky low-resolution style
  • static image
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 09:52 UTC
Run
52
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
200707301945312138410999
Archive entry
200707301945312138410999.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 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#200707301945312138410999.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200707301945312138410999.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016