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Black background with white pixelated text and a heart symbol above the text.

Black background with white pixelated text and a heart symbol above the text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2000s t…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered heart above text
  • two vertical of text

Dense Caption

The image shows a black background. At the top center, there is a white pixelated heart symbol composed of blocky pixels. Below it are two identical vertical columns of white pixelated text: 'i love toast.' Each column has three lines with the letters 'i', 'love', and 'toast.' The text uses a retro digital font style typical of early internet graphics.

Description

  • Black background with white pixelated text and a 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200803052100331003651253

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i love toast pixel art
  • white heart text black background
  • retro digital font i love toast
  • two of i love toast

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: two identical columns
  • quarantined composition: two vertical columns of text
  • quarantined retrieval: two columns of i love toast

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • i love toast.

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white heart symbol
  • pixelated heart
  • two identical
  • text 'i'
  • text 'love'
  • text 'toast.'
  • retro digital font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200803052100331003651253
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
207 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b2/b232a7b14f0522f395e20e11260f851b0e6a971aade92c246ad0f0ea8d8c06ef.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 UTC
Archive ID
b232a7b14f0522f3
SHA-256
b232a7b14f0522f395e20e11260f851b0e6a971aade92c246ad0f0ea8d8c06ef
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
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
0.079570

OpenAI category scores

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Black background with white pixelated text and a heart symbol above the text.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 04:51 UTC
Run
57
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,702 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,147, response 593

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • digital retro (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white

Composition

  • centered heart above text
  • two vertical of text

Dense Caption

The image shows a black background. At the top center, there is a white pixelated heart symbol composed of blocky pixels. Below it are two identical vertical columns of white pixelated text: 'i love toast.' Each column has three lines with the letters 'i', 'love', and 'toast.' The text uses a retro digital font style typical of early internet graphics.

Description

  • Black background with white pixelated text and a 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200803052100331003651253

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i love toast pixel art
  • white heart text black background
  • retro digital font i love toast
  • two of i love toast

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: two identical columns
  • quarantined composition: two vertical columns of text
  • quarantined retrieval: two columns of i love toast

Style

  • pixelated
  • digital retro

Subjects

  • heart symbol
  • text

Visible Text

  • i love toast.

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white heart symbol
  • pixelated heart
  • two identical
  • text 'i'
  • text 'love'
  • text 'toast.'
  • retro digital font
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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
200803052100331003651253
Archive entry
200803052100331003651253.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 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#200803052100331003651253.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200803052100331003651253.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016