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Pixelated text 'love you 6/17/08 <3' on black background with red heart symbol above text in left view, no heart in right view.

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Pixelated text 'love you 6/17/08 <3' on black background with red heart symbol above text in left view, no heart in right view.

Pixelated text 'love you 6/17/08 <3' on black background with red heart symbol above text in left view, no heart in right view. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Arc…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • heart appears in left view
  • heart disappears in right view

Animation Summary

  • Heart symbol appears in left view, disappears in right view.

Composition

  • text centered
  • heart above text

Dense Caption

Black background with pixelated white text reading 'love you' on top line, '6/17/08' on middle line, and '<3' on bottom line. Left view shows a red pixelated heart symbol above the text; right view shows no heart symbol. Text and background remain consistent across both views. All text is rendered in a blocky, low-resolution pixel art style.

Description

  • Pixelated text 'love you 6/17/08 <3' on black background with red heart symbol above text in left view, no heart in right view.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200806171950451841564018
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2008
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • love you 6/17/08 <3
  • pixel art heart
  • 6/17/08 date
  • black background white text
  • red heart symbol
  • buddy icon animation
  • 2008 holiday icon
  • text <3

Objects

  • heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • source hints indicate 2007-2016 collection but pixels show 2008 date

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains era and collection hints but pixels are authoritative

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • love you
  • 6/17/08
  • <3

Wordwall

  • black background
  • pixelated white text
  • red heart symbol
  • 6/17/08 date
  • <3 symbol
  • blocky pixel art style
  • left view heart
  • right view no heart

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200806171950451841564018
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:30 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
954 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/9f/9f3bc3484f6bac04a760b3813b65510d9b9c765a9153d0773990203560983ce3.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:30 UTC
Archive ID
9f3bc3484f6bac04
SHA-256
9f3bc3484f6bac04a760b3813b65510d9b9c765a9153d0773990203560983ce3
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:17 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.083910

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text 'love you 6/17/08 <3' on black background with red heart symbol above text in left view, no heart in right view.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 06:46 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,815 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,149, response 756

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • sentimental (mood, 0.80)
  • heart appears in left view (other, 0.80)
  • heart disappears in right view (other, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • heart appears in left view
  • heart disappears in right view

Animation Summary

  • Heart symbol appears in left view, disappears in right view.

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • red

Composition

  • text centered
  • heart above text

Dense Caption

Black background with pixelated white text reading 'love you' on top line, '6/17/08' on middle line, and '<3' on bottom line. Left view shows a red pixelated heart symbol above the text; right view shows no heart symbol. Text and background remain consistent across both views. All text is rendered in a blocky, low-resolution pixel art style.

Description

  • Pixelated text 'love you 6/17/08 <3' on black background with red heart symbol above text in left view, no heart in right view.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200806171950451841564018
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2008
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Mood

  • affectionate
  • sentimental

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • love you 6/17/08 <3
  • pixel art heart
  • 6/17/08 date
  • black background white text
  • red heart symbol
  • buddy icon animation
  • 2008 holiday icon
  • text <3

Objects

  • heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • source hints indicate 2007-2016 collection but pixels show 2008 date

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains era and collection hints but pixels are authoritative

Style

  • pixel art
  • blocky
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • text
  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • love you
  • 6/17/08
  • <3

Wordwall

  • black background
  • pixelated white text
  • red heart symbol
  • 6/17/08 date
  • <3 symbol
  • blocky pixel art style
  • left view heart
  • right view no heart
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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
200806171950451841564018
Archive entry
200806171950451841564018.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:30 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#200806171950451841564018.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200806171950451841564018.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016