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Pixelated text and symbols on black background with gray rectangle, showing repeated 'paul thomas' and 'iloveyou!' with heart symbols.

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Pixelated text and symbols on black background with gray rectangle, showing repeated 'paul thomas' and 'iloveyou!' with heart symbols.

Pixelated text and symbols on black background with gray rectangle, showing repeated 'paul thomas' and 'iloveyou!' with heart symbols. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Inter…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation Summary

  • no animation changes observed

Composition

  • text centered
  • gray rectangle on right
  • repeated text elements

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text: 'paul thomas' appears three times, each above 'iloveyou!' with a small heart symbol above 'paul thomas'. The right side of the image has a solid gray rectangle occupying the lower-right portion. Text is rendered in a low-resolution, blocky font typical of early digital displays. The image contains no visible motion or animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated text and symbols on black background with gray rectangle, showing repeated 'paul thomas' and 'iloveyou!' with heart symbols.

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

  • paul thomas iloveyou
  • heart symbol text
  • pixelated black gray
  • repeated text gray rectangle
  • low-resolution affectionate text
  • paul thomas iloveyou heart
  • text gray rectangle pixelated
  • affectionate pixelated text

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected
  • static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata not confirmed by image pixels

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • paul thomas
  • iloveyou!

Wordwall

  • paul thomas
  • iloveyou!
  • heart symbol
  • black background
  • gray rectangle
  • pixelated text
  • low-resolution font
  • repeated text
  • white text
  • blocky rendering

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200905071647242012222072
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.1 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ae/aed6e671a6261e456d14c32efdda9fba1b1bbdebc665ac54d841c31175ea576e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 UTC
Archive ID
aed6e671a6261e45
SHA-256
aed6e671a6261e456d14c32efdda9fba1b1bbdebc665ac54d841c31175ea576e
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:26 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.079078

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text and symbols on black background with gray rectangle, showing repeated 'paul thomas' and 'iloveyou!' with heart symbols.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 09:08 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,924 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 662

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • gray rectangle (object, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • no animation changes observed

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • text centered
  • gray rectangle on right
  • repeated text elements

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text: 'paul thomas' appears three times, each above 'iloveyou!' with a small heart symbol above 'paul thomas'. The right side of the image has a solid gray rectangle occupying the lower-right portion. Text is rendered in a low-resolution, blocky font typical of early digital displays. The image contains no visible motion or animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated text and symbols on black background with gray rectangle, showing repeated 'paul thomas' and 'iloveyou!' with heart symbols.

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
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • paul thomas iloveyou
  • heart symbol text
  • pixelated black gray
  • repeated text gray rectangle
  • low-resolution affectionate text
  • paul thomas iloveyou heart
  • text gray rectangle pixelated
  • affectionate pixelated text

Objects

  • gray rectangle

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected
  • static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata not confirmed by image pixels

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky

Subjects

  • text
  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • paul thomas
  • iloveyou!

Wordwall

  • paul thomas
  • iloveyou!
  • heart symbol
  • black background
  • gray rectangle
  • pixelated text
  • low-resolution font
  • repeated text
  • white text
  • blocky rendering
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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
200905071647242012222072
Archive entry
200905071647242012222072.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 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#200905071647242012222072.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200905071647242012222072.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016