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Red background with black text reading "I like u but love u" and a white pixelated heart symbol above the text.

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Red background with black text reading "I like u but love u" and a white pixelated heart symbol above the text.

Red background with black text reading "I like u but love u" and a white pixelated heart symbol above the text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • two
  • vertical alignment
  • centered heart

Dense Caption

Red background. Black pixelated text: "I like" (top-left), "u" (middle-left), "but" (middle-left), "love" (middle-left), "u" (bottom-left). Black pixelated text: "I like" (top-right), "u" (middle-right), "but" (middle-right), "love" (middle-right), "u" (bottom-right). White pixelated heart symbol (top-center). All text and symbol are static. No animation observed. Text is vertically aligned in two columns. Font is blocky, low-resolution. Background is solid red. Text is black. Heart symbol is white. No additional objects or subjects present.

Description

  • Red background with black text reading "I like u but love u" and a white pixelated heart symbol above the text.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background black text white heart
  • I like u but love u text
  • pixelated heart symbol
  • two text
  • affectionate text
  • static pixel art
  • low resolution text
  • blocky font

Objects

  • heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: two columns
  • quarantined composition: two columns
  • quarantined retrieval: two column text

Visible Text

  • I like
  • u
  • but
  • love

Wordwall

  • red background
  • black text
  • white heart symbol
  • I like u but love u
  • two
  • pixelated font
  • solid red
  • blocky text
  • vertical alignment
  • static image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090619192827477808776
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
242 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ad/add1a864137bb455797846eb6570e5556ec2fc04b2becedea1b92ab0eb6545e1.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 UTC
Archive ID
add1a864137bb455
SHA-256
add1a864137bb455797846eb6570e5556ec2fc04b2becedea1b92ab0eb6545e1
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
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
0.093598

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Red background with black text reading "I like u but love u" and a white pixelated heart symbol above the text.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 12:41 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,817 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,138, response 737

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (object, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • two
  • vertical alignment
  • centered heart

Dense Caption

Red background. Black pixelated text: "I like" (top-left), "u" (middle-left), "but" (middle-left), "love" (middle-left), "u" (bottom-left). Black pixelated text: "I like" (top-right), "u" (middle-right), "but" (middle-right), "love" (middle-right), "u" (bottom-right). White pixelated heart symbol (top-center). All text and symbol are static. No animation observed. Text is vertically aligned in two columns. Font is blocky, low-resolution. Background is solid red. Text is black. Heart symbol is white. No additional objects or subjects present.

Description

  • Red background with black text reading "I like u but love u" and a white pixelated heart symbol above the text.

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

Mood

  • affectionate

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background black text white heart
  • I like u but love u text
  • pixelated heart symbol
  • two text
  • affectionate text
  • static pixel art
  • low resolution text
  • blocky font

Objects

  • heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: two columns
  • quarantined composition: two columns
  • quarantined retrieval: two column text

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • low-resolution

Visible Text

  • I like
  • u
  • but
  • love

Wordwall

  • red background
  • black text
  • white heart symbol
  • I like u but love u
  • two
  • pixelated font
  • solid red
  • blocky text
  • vertical alignment
  • static image
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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
20090619192827477808776
Archive entry
20090619192827477808776.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 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#20090619192827477808776.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090619192827477808776.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016