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Pixelated text 'This L O V E' in red on dark blue background with white heart symbol above the 'L'.

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Pixelated text 'This L O V E' in red on dark blue background with white heart symbol above the 'L'.

Pixelated text 'This L O V E' in red on dark blue background with white heart symbol above the 'L'. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Budd…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • vertical text
  • mirrored layout
  • centered heart above 'L'

Dense Caption

Dark blue background. Red pixelated text: 'This' at top left, below it a single 'L', then 'O', then 'is', and finally 'E' forming vertical columns; to the right of 'This' is a white pixelated heart symbol. The same red text appears mirrored on the right side with identical layout but no heart symbol.

Description

  • Pixelated text 'This L O V E' in red on dark blue background with white heart symbol above the 'L'.

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

  • red pixelated text dark blue background
  • white heart symbol vertical text
  • mirrored layout affectionate mood
  • pixelated retro digital text

Objects

  • heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: vertical text columns

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • This
  • L
  • O
  • is
  • V
  • E

Visually Supported Entities

  • text 'This L O V E'

Wordwall

  • red pixelated text
  • dark blue background
  • white pixelated heart
  • vertical text arrangement
  • mirrored text layout

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090416082826649077656
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
524 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a2/a2b6abf1537b4639ee72fe1e9c229ed1194bc60a3fe365af313a4ee002a7758a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 UTC
Archive ID
a2b6abf1537b4639
SHA-256
a2b6abf1537b4639ee72fe1e9c229ed1194bc60a3fe365af313a4ee002a7758a
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 13, 2026 at 04:10 UTC
Run
1287
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000511

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:19 UTC
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1135
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Overall label
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Pixelated text 'This L O V E' in red on dark blue background with white heart symbol above the 'L'.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 06:51 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,337 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,142, response 574

Review tags

  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • dark blue
  • red
  • white

Composition

  • vertical text
  • mirrored layout
  • centered heart above 'L'

Dense Caption

Dark blue background. Red pixelated text: 'This' at top left, below it a single 'L', then 'O', then 'is', and finally 'E' forming vertical columns; to the right of 'This' is a white pixelated heart symbol. The same red text appears mirrored on the right side with identical layout but no heart symbol.

Description

  • Pixelated text 'This L O V E' in red on dark blue background with white heart symbol above the 'L'.

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
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red pixelated text dark blue background
  • white heart symbol vertical text
  • mirrored layout affectionate mood
  • pixelated retro digital text

Objects

  • heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: vertical text columns

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • text
  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • This
  • L
  • O
  • is
  • V
  • E

Visually Supported Entities

  • text 'This L O V E'

Wordwall

  • red pixelated text
  • dark blue background
  • white pixelated heart
  • vertical text arrangement
  • mirrored text layout
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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
20090416082826649077656
Archive entry
20090416082826649077656.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 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#20090416082826649077656.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090416082826649077656.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016