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Green pixelated text and symbols on bright yellow background, with one version showing a heart symbol above 'luv <3' while the other shows only the text.

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Green pixelated text and symbols on bright yellow background, with one version showing a heart symbol above 'luv <3' while the other shows only the text.

Green pixelated text and symbols on bright yellow background, with one version showing a heart symbol above 'luv <3' while the other shows only the text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM bu…

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Animation Summary

  • Heart symbol appears above "luv <3" in left version; absent in right version. All other visual elements remain identical between versions.

Composition

  • centered text blocks
  • top-left placement of "ii<3"

Dense Caption

Bright yellow background. Green pixelated text: top-left "ii<3" (two instances), center-left "luv <3", middle-center "jazzy <3", bottom "*4-3-08*". Left version has green heart symbol above "luv <3"; right version lacks this heart. All text and symbols are static except for the presence/absence of the heart symbol between left and right versions. Text uses blocky, retro digital font with rounded corners on all characters including '<3' and '*4-3-08*'.

Description

Green pixelated text and symbols on bright yellow background, with one version showing a heart symbol above 'luv <3' while the other shows only 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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080425160251948028103

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green pixelated text yellow background
  • heart symbol luv 4-3-08
  • ii<3 jazzy 4-3-08
  • retro digital font heart symbol

Objects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • ii<3
  • luv <3
  • jazzy <3
  • *4-3-08*

Wordwall

  • green pixelated text
  • bright yellow background
  • heart symbol above "luv <3"
  • "ii<3" top-left
  • "luv <3" center-left
  • "jazzy <3" middle-center
  • "*4-3-08*" bottom
  • retro digital font
  • blocky character shapes
  • rounded corners on all characters

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080425160251948028103
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:24 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
279 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b7/b7837957b1c22b55fbf1f9cb3061769312c860e303e07d12aa136abe0e1c4057.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:24 UTC
Archive ID
b7837957b1c22b55
SHA-256
b7837957b1c22b55fbf1f9cb3061769312c860e303e07d12aa136abe0e1c4057
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:31 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.084077

OpenAI category scores

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Green pixelated text and symbols on bright yellow background, with one version showing a heart symbol above 'luv <3' while the other shows only the text.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 08:36 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,663 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,145, response 703

Review tags

  • green (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • Heart symbol appears above "luv <3" in left version; absent in right version. All other visual elements remain identical between versions.

Colors

  • yellow
  • green

Composition

  • centered text blocks
  • top-left placement of "ii<3"

Dense Caption

Bright yellow background. Green pixelated text: top-left "ii<3" (two instances), center-left "luv <3", middle-center "jazzy <3", bottom "*4-3-08*". Left version has green heart symbol above "luv <3"; right version lacks this heart. All text and symbols are static except for the presence/absence of the heart symbol between left and right versions. Text uses blocky, retro digital font with rounded corners on all characters including '<3' and '*4-3-08*'.

Description

Green pixelated text and symbols on bright yellow background, with one version showing a heart symbol above 'luv <3' while the other shows only 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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080425160251948028103

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green pixelated text yellow background
  • heart symbol luv 4-3-08
  • ii<3 jazzy 4-3-08
  • retro digital font heart symbol

Objects

  • heart symbol

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Visible Text

  • ii<3
  • luv <3
  • jazzy <3
  • *4-3-08*

Wordwall

  • green pixelated text
  • bright yellow background
  • heart symbol above "luv <3"
  • "ii<3" top-left
  • "luv <3" center-left
  • "jazzy <3" middle-center
  • "*4-3-08*" bottom
  • retro digital font
  • blocky character shapes
  • rounded corners on all characters
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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
20080425160251948028103
Archive entry
20080425160251948028103.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:24 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#20080425160251948028103.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080425160251948028103.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016