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A static pixel art image with a black background, featuring a pink heart symbol above two identical white text strings.

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A static pixel art image with a black background, featuring a pink heart symbol above two identical white text strings.

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Source terms

Composition

  • top-center heart
  • left-right text alignment
  • black background

Dense Caption

Black background. One pink pixelated heart symbol positioned at the top center. Two identical white pixelated text strings 'ilyyyy' positioned below the heart, one on the left and one on the right. Each text string consists of a lowercase 'i' followed by five lowercase 'y's. The heart symbol is formed by a continuous pink pixel outline with a small internal gap. The text uses a blocky, retro digital font. No other visual elements are present.

Description

  • A static pixel art image with a black background, featuring a pink heart symbol above two identical white text strings.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200902241205441076227833

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink heart pixel art
  • ilyyyy text
  • black background pixel art
  • retro digital text
  • identical text pairs
  • blocky font heart
  • pixelated heart text
  • white text pink heart

Objects

  • heart symbol

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • ilyyyy

Wordwall

  • pink heart symbol
  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • ilyyyy text
  • blocky digital font
  • retro pixel art
  • identical text pairs
  • top-center heart
  • left-right text alignment

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200902241205441076227833
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 UTC

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Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
207 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 15:53 UTC
Archive ID
ad4bd95fa481b0b8
SHA-256
ad4bd95fa481b0b827b3da597541fb0b021e64270b1fb3f5feb76cee92b75352
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:25 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.089536

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A static pixel art image with a black background, featuring a pink heart symbol above two identical white text strings.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 00:26 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,498 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,142, response 768

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
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  • text strings (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • pink
  • white

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  • top-center heart
  • left-right text alignment
  • black background

Dense Caption

Black background. One pink pixelated heart symbol positioned at the top center. Two identical white pixelated text strings 'ilyyyy' positioned below the heart, one on the left and one on the right. Each text string consists of a lowercase 'i' followed by five lowercase 'y's. The heart symbol is formed by a continuous pink pixel outline with a small internal gap. The text uses a blocky, retro digital font. No other visual elements are present.

Description

  • A static pixel art image with a black background, featuring a pink heart symbol above two identical white text strings.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200902241205441076227833

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  • pink heart pixel art
  • ilyyyy text
  • black background pixel art
  • retro digital text
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  • pixelated heart text
  • white text pink heart

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  • heart symbol
  • text strings

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  • pixel art
  • retro digital
  • blocky font

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  • heart symbol
  • text strings

Visible Text

  • ilyyyy

Wordwall

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  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • ilyyyy text
  • blocky digital font
  • retro pixel art
  • identical text pairs
  • top-center heart
  • left-right text alignment
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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
200902241205441076227833
Archive entry
200902241205441076227833.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 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#200902241205441076227833.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200902241205441076227833.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016