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Pixelated text and heart symbol on black background, with green heart icon above 'HEART' in left

Pixelated text and heart symbol on black background, with green heart icon above 'HEART' in left. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • two side-by-side
  • centered text
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Black background displays two side-by-side pixel art panels. Left panel: white blocky text reads "I" then "HEART" (with a light green pixelated heart replacing the letter O), followed by "RYAN" and "ALWAYS". Right panel shows identical white text without the heart symbol. Both panels use 8-bit style font with uniform spacing.

Description

  • Pixelated text and heart symbol on black background, with green heart icon above 'HEART' in left

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

Named Entities

  • RYAN

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • I HEART RYAN ALWAYS
  • pixel art heart icon
  • 8-bit text buddy icon
  • green heart replacement

Objects

  • heart icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pixelated text and heart symbol on black background, with green heart icon above 'HEART' in left panel.
  • quarantined wordwall: two side-by-side panels
  • quarantined composition: two panels side-by-side

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • I
  • HEART
  • RYAN
  • ALWAYS

Visually Supported Entities

  • RYAN

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white blocky text
  • light green heart icon
  • I HEART RYAN ALWAYS
  • two side-by-side
  • 8-bit pixel art

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200802031632141284905292
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:12 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
256 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b1/b1cb4b9aa470025081797d33f4dc4d7d7aa733cd21021d7e996dacef43fc5430.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:12 UTC
Archive ID
b1cb4b9aa4700250
SHA-256
b1cb4b9aa470025081797d33f4dc4d7d7aa733cd21021d7e996dacef43fc5430
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:28 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.072023

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text and heart symbol on black background, with green heart icon above 'HEART' in left

Reviewed
August 3, 2026 at 16:27 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
16,323 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,144, response 576

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • light green (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
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  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
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  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • light green

Composition

  • two side-by-side
  • centered text
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Black background displays two side-by-side pixel art panels. Left panel: white blocky text reads "I" then "HEART" (with a light green pixelated heart replacing the letter O), followed by "RYAN" and "ALWAYS". Right panel shows identical white text without the heart symbol. Both panels use 8-bit style font with uniform spacing.

Description

  • Pixelated text and heart symbol on black background, with green heart icon above 'HEART' in left

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

Mood

  • affectionate
  • nostalgic

Named Entities

  • RYAN

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • I HEART RYAN ALWAYS
  • pixel art heart icon
  • 8-bit text buddy icon
  • green heart replacement

Objects

  • heart icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pixelated text and heart symbol on black background, with green heart icon above 'HEART' in left panel.
  • quarantined wordwall: two side-by-side panels
  • quarantined composition: two panels side-by-side

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • text
  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • I
  • HEART
  • RYAN
  • ALWAYS

Visually Supported Entities

  • RYAN

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white blocky text
  • light green heart icon
  • I HEART RYAN ALWAYS
  • two side-by-side
  • 8-bit pixel art
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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
200802031632141284905292
Archive entry
200802031632141284905292.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:12 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#200802031632141284905292.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200802031632141284905292.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016