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Pixelated text and symbols on black background with pink heart symbol above 'boy' in left

Pixelated text and symbols on black background with pink heart symbol above 'boy' in left. 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

  • two identical side-by-side
  • vertical text layout

Dense Caption

Black background displays two identical pixel art panels side-by-side. Each panel contains white pixelated text: 'boy' (with double y) at top, followed by 'I', then 'love', then 'you' (with double u), and finally '<33'. Left panel has a pink heart symbol above the word 'boy'; right panel lacks this symbol. Text uses 8-bit style font with blocky pixels.

Description

  • Pixelated text and symbols on black background with pink heart symbol above 'boy' in left

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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200802121935281386457100

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • boy love you <33
  • pink heart boy text
  • double y double u pixel art
  • <33 emoticon black background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pixelated text and symbols on black background with pink heart symbol above 'boy' in left panel.
  • quarantined wordwall: identical panels side-by-side
  • quarantined composition: two identical panels side-by-side

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • boy
  • I
  • love
  • you
  • <33

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • pink heart symbol
  • double y in boy
  • double u in you
  • <33 emoticon
  • identical side-by-side

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200802121935281386457100
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:14 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
254 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a0/a0fd781d0678d4f91474cb8aad5fb2b101a013f62b50be0b1b4292396810ebee.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:14 UTC
Archive ID
a0fd781d0678d4f9
SHA-256
a0fd781d0678d4f91474cb8aad5fb2b101a013f62b50be0b1b4292396810ebee
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:18 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.077488

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated text and symbols on black background with pink heart symbol above 'boy' in left

Reviewed
August 3, 2026 at 21:03 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
16,146 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,144, response 654

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • 33 emoticon (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • pink

Composition

  • two identical side-by-side
  • vertical text layout

Dense Caption

Black background displays two identical pixel art panels side-by-side. Each panel contains white pixelated text: 'boy' (with double y) at top, followed by 'I', then 'love', then 'you' (with double u), and finally '<33'. Left panel has a pink heart symbol above the word 'boy'; right panel lacks this symbol. Text uses 8-bit style font with blocky pixels.

Description

  • Pixelated text and symbols on black background with pink heart symbol above 'boy' in left

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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200802121935281386457100

Mood

  • affectionate
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • boy love you <33
  • pink heart boy text
  • double y double u pixel art
  • <33 emoticon black background

Objects

  • <33 emoticon

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pixelated text and symbols on black background with pink heart symbol above 'boy' in left panel.
  • quarantined wordwall: identical panels side-by-side
  • quarantined composition: two identical panels side-by-side

Style

  • 8-bit pixel art
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • text
  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • boy
  • I
  • love
  • you
  • <33

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • pink heart symbol
  • double y in boy
  • double u in you
  • <33 emoticon
  • identical side-by-side
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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
200802121935281386457100
Archive entry
200802121935281386457100.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:14 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#200802121935281386457100.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200802121935281386457100.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016