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Two white heart shapes on a red background with black text reading "ELMO LOVES U!" inside each heart.

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Two white heart shapes on a red background with black text reading "ELMO LOVES U!" inside each heart.

Two white heart shapes on a red background with black text reading "ELMO LOVES U!" inside each heart. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bu…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • two hearts side-by-side
  • centered text within each heart
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Red background. Two identical white hearts side-by-side, left and right. Each heart contains three lines of black pixelated text: first line "ELMO", second line "LOVES", third line "U!". Text is centered within the hearts. Pixelation indicates low-resolution rendering typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Two white heart shapes on a red background with black text reading "ELMO LOVES U!" inside each heart.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Elmo (character)

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

Named Entities

  • Elmo

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • elmo loves u
  • heart text icon
  • red background white hearts
  • pixelated elmo love

Visible Text

  • ELMO
  • LOVES
  • U!

Visually Supported Entities

  • Elmo (character)

Wordwall

  • red background
  • white hearts
  • black text
  • ELMO LOVES U!
  • pixelated font
  • two identical hearts

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071108143146170312743
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:54 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
877 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/af/afa1b6406fc16d6db13e10bdcb3fee8c70096a6fd32d68d956e82886f7f31b93.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:54 UTC
Archive ID
afa1b6406fc16d6d
SHA-256
afa1b6406fc16d6db13e10bdcb3fee8c70096a6fd32d68d956e82886f7f31b93
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
July 28, 2026 at 16:21 UTC
Run
1201
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000173

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:26 UTC
Run
1136
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Two white heart shapes on a red background with black text reading "ELMO LOVES U!" inside each heart.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 16:15 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,600 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,142, response 574

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • graphic design (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • hearts (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • two hearts side-by-side
  • centered text within each heart
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Red background. Two identical white hearts side-by-side, left and right. Each heart contains three lines of black pixelated text: first line "ELMO", second line "LOVES", third line "U!". Text is centered within the hearts. Pixelation indicates low-resolution rendering typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Two white heart shapes on a red background with black text reading "ELMO LOVES U!" inside each heart.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Elmo (character)

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

Mood

  • affectionate
  • playful

Named Entities

  • Elmo

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • elmo loves u
  • heart text icon
  • red background white hearts
  • pixelated elmo love

Objects

  • hearts
  • text

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • graphic design

Subjects

  • hearts
  • text

Visible Text

  • ELMO
  • LOVES
  • U!

Visually Supported Entities

  • Elmo (character)

Wordwall

  • red background
  • white hearts
  • black text
  • ELMO LOVES U!
  • pixelated font
  • two identical hearts
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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
20071108143146170312743
Archive entry
20071108143146170312743.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:54 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#20071108143146170312743.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071108143146170312743.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016