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Green pixelated text and symbols on black background, with one version showing a heart symbol replacing the 'i' in 'i love u'.

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Green pixelated text and symbols on black background, with one version showing a heart symbol replacing the 'i' in 'i love u'.

Green pixelated text and symbols on black background, with one version showing a heart symbol replacing the 'i' in 'i love u'. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Arch…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • heart symbol replaces 'i' in left version

Animation Summary

  • Heart symbol replaces 'i' in left version; identical text and layout otherwise.

Composition

  • centered text
  • two versions side-by-side

Dense Caption

Green pixelated text on black background. Left version: 'i' above a heart symbol, followed by 'love', 'u', 'babii', '10-5-09'. Right version: 'i' above 'love', 'u', 'babii', '10-5-09'. Both versions share identical text and layout except for the heart symbol replacing the 'i' in the left version. Text uses a blocky, retro digital font. All text and symbols are bright green against solid black background. No other visual elements present.

Description

  • Green pixelated text and symbols on black background, with one version showing a heart symbol replacing the 'i' in 'i love u'.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green pixelated i love u babii 10-5-09
  • heart symbol i love u babii 10-5-09
  • green text black background i love u
  • retro digital i love u babii 10-5-09

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • i
  • love
  • u
  • babii
  • 10-5-09

Wordwall

  • green pixelated text
  • black background
  • heart symbol
  • i love u
  • babii
  • 10-5-09
  • retro digital font
  • left version heart
  • right version i
  • identical text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20091220185004879070502
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
244 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 16:04 UTC
Archive ID
a7ac9a704978281b
SHA-256
a7ac9a704978281baa7ef0f49bc501a45a9eb9a8228b4c2c57bf2349b3944dcd
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:22 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.072514

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Green pixelated text and symbols on black background, with one version showing a heart symbol replacing the 'i' in 'i love u'.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 21:31 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,858 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,143, response 760

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • casual (mood, 0.80)
  • heart symbol replaces i in left version (other, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • heart symbol replaces 'i' in left version

Animation Summary

  • Heart symbol replaces 'i' in left version; identical text and layout otherwise.

Colors

  • green
  • black

Composition

  • centered text
  • two versions side-by-side

Dense Caption

Green pixelated text on black background. Left version: 'i' above a heart symbol, followed by 'love', 'u', 'babii', '10-5-09'. Right version: 'i' above 'love', 'u', 'babii', '10-5-09'. Both versions share identical text and layout except for the heart symbol replacing the 'i' in the left version. Text uses a blocky, retro digital font. All text and symbols are bright green against solid black background. No other visual elements present.

Description

  • Green pixelated text and symbols on black background, with one version showing a heart symbol replacing the 'i' in 'i love u'.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Mood

  • affectionate
  • casual

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green pixelated i love u babii 10-5-09
  • heart symbol i love u babii 10-5-09
  • green text black background i love u
  • retro digital i love u babii 10-5-09

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • text
  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • i
  • love
  • u
  • babii
  • 10-5-09

Wordwall

  • green pixelated text
  • black background
  • heart symbol
  • i love u
  • babii
  • 10-5-09
  • retro digital font
  • left version heart
  • right version i
  • identical text
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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
20091220185004879070502
Archive entry
20091220185004879070502.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 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#20091220185004879070502.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20091220185004879070502.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016