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A pixelated brown heart shape with a white border and purple text reading "Love" at the bottom right.

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A pixelated brown heart shape with a white border and purple text reading "Love" at the bottom right.

A pixelated brown heart shape with a white border and purple text reading "Love" at the bottom right. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central heart
  • text in bottom right

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated heart shape in shades of brown, with a white border around its perimeter. The heart is positioned centrally against a dark brown background. In the bottom right corner, there is a white rectangular area containing purple pixelated text that reads "Love" followed by a purple heart symbol. The overall image has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance typical of early instant messaging icons.

Description

  • A pixelated brown heart shape with a white border and purple text reading "Love" at the bottom right.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown heart icon
  • love text icon
  • pixelated heart icon
  • purple love text
  • heart symbol icon
  • retro digital heart
  • buddy icon love
  • low resolution heart

Objects

  • heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Subjects

  • heart

Visible Text

  • Love

Wordwall

  • brown heart
  • pixelated
  • white border
  • purple text
  • Love text
  • heart symbol
  • dark brown background
  • low-resolution
  • retro digital

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080910160629859299771
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2 KB
Motion
Still image
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 15:38 UTC
Archive ID
a325dae4b18bcc03
SHA-256
a325dae4b18bcc03d2b2f112cb376efb5cd474feb1b7ce84cb5d689cf652c6bc
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:19 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.130811

OpenAI category scores

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A pixelated brown heart shape with a white border and purple text reading "Love" at the bottom right.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 23:41 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,761 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,084, response 711

Review tags

  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • heart (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • brown
  • white
  • purple

Composition

  • central heart
  • text in bottom right

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated heart shape in shades of brown, with a white border around its perimeter. The heart is positioned centrally against a dark brown background. In the bottom right corner, there is a white rectangular area containing purple pixelated text that reads "Love" followed by a purple heart symbol. The overall image has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance typical of early instant messaging icons.

Description

  • A pixelated brown heart shape with a white border and purple text reading "Love" at the bottom right.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • affectionate

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown heart icon
  • love text icon
  • pixelated heart icon
  • purple love text
  • heart symbol icon
  • retro digital heart
  • buddy icon love
  • low resolution heart

Objects

  • heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • heart

Visible Text

  • Love

Wordwall

  • brown heart
  • pixelated
  • white border
  • purple text
  • Love text
  • heart symbol
  • dark brown background
  • low-resolution
  • retro digital
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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
20080910160629859299771
Archive entry
20080910160629859299771.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 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#20080910160629859299771.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080910160629859299771.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016