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Purple pixelated heart symbol above white text on black background, with repeated text elements below.

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Purple pixelated heart symbol above white text on black background, with repeated text elements below.

Purple pixelated heart symbol above white text on black background, with repeated text elements below. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared B…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • heart symbol centered above text
  • text arranged in four
  • text aligned left

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text reading "I love th", "Retar", "I C", and "BestFrier" in four rows. A purple pixelated heart symbol is positioned above the text. The text appears to be partially cut off. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance.

Description

  • Purple pixelated heart symbol above white text on black background, with repeated text elements below.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation file-name (gallery): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • observation title (gallery): 200810191623301603414700
  • observation file-name (gallery): 200810191623301603414700

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple heart white text black background
  • I love th Retar I C BestFrier
  • pixelated heart text
  • retro digital text icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: four rows of text
  • quarantined composition: text arranged in four rows

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • I love th
  • Retar
  • I C
  • BestFrier

Wordwall

  • purple heart symbol
  • white pixelated text
  • black background
  • partially cut off text
  • retro digital appearance
  • four of text
  • "I love th" text
  • "Retar" text
  • "I C" text
  • "BestFrier" text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200810191623301603414700
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
281 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b9/b91f1d905966655b53ce720655bcb2691a0899ea00649af5399c20d12c0a5b6e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 UTC
Archive ID
b91f1d905966655b
SHA-256
b91f1d905966655b53ce720655bcb2691a0899ea00649af5399c20d12c0a5b6e
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:33 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.078924

OpenAI category scores

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Purple pixelated heart symbol above white text on black background, with repeated text elements below.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 04:50 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,501 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,148, response 722

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • purple
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • heart symbol centered above text
  • text arranged in four
  • text aligned left

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text reading "I love th", "Retar", "I C", and "BestFrier" in four rows. A purple pixelated heart symbol is positioned above the text. The text appears to be partially cut off. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance.

Description

  • Purple pixelated heart symbol above white text on black background, with repeated text elements below.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation file-name (gallery): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • observation title (gallery): 200810191623301603414700
  • observation file-name (gallery): 200810191623301603414700

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple heart white text black background
  • I love th Retar I C BestFrier
  • pixelated heart text
  • retro digital text icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: four rows of text
  • quarantined composition: text arranged in four rows

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • heart symbol
  • text

Visible Text

  • I love th
  • Retar
  • I C
  • BestFrier

Wordwall

  • purple heart symbol
  • white pixelated text
  • black background
  • partially cut off text
  • retro digital appearance
  • four of text
  • "I love th" text
  • "Retar" text
  • "I C" text
  • "BestFrier" text
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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
200810191623301603414700
Archive entry
200810191623301603414700.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 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#200810191623301603414700.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200810191623301603414700.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016