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Pixelated text and symbols on black background with red heart symbol in center.

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Pixelated text and symbols on black background with red heart symbol in center.

Pixelated text and symbols on black background with red heart symbol in center. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2000s…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • heart symbol pulses

Animation Summary

  • Heart symbol pulses while text remains static.

Composition

  • centered
  • symmetrical
  • two text blocks

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text 'ILY' above '<333' on left and right sides. Red pixelated heart symbol <3> positioned between the two text blocks. All elements are static except for the heart symbol which is animated. The heart symbol appears to pulse or flicker in place. The text and heart are centered horizontally with equal spacing between left and right text blocks. The heart symbol is slightly larger than the individual text characters. The image uses a limited color palette of black, white, and red. The text and symbols are rendered in a low-resolution pixel art style typical of early 2000s digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated text and symbols on black background with red heart symbol in center.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • ILY <333 heart animation
  • pixel art heart animation
  • red heart pulsing text
  • ILY <333 black background

Objects

  • heart symbol

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • ILY
  • <333

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • red heart symbol
  • ILY text
  • <333 text
  • centered composition
  • low-resolution pixel art
  • heart animation
  • pulsing heart
  • symmetrical layout

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090411173346471898
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
500 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b9/b9363731e5857afc638b2c2742c20c477a9b9c9c3955a798ef2646d4a126254e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 UTC
Archive ID
b9363731e5857afc
SHA-256
b9363731e5857afc638b2c2742c20c477a9b9c9c3955a798ef2646d4a126254e
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
0.099334

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated text and symbols on black background with red heart symbol in center.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 06:21 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,919 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,141, response 727

Review tags

  • heart pulses (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • heart symbol pulses (other, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • symmetrical (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • heart pulses

Animation

  • heart symbol pulses

Animation Summary

  • Heart symbol pulses while text remains static.

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • red

Composition

  • centered
  • symmetrical
  • two text blocks

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text 'ILY' above '<333' on left and right sides. Red pixelated heart symbol <3> positioned between the two text blocks. All elements are static except for the heart symbol which is animated. The heart symbol appears to pulse or flicker in place. The text and heart are centered horizontally with equal spacing between left and right text blocks. The heart symbol is slightly larger than the individual text characters. The image uses a limited color palette of black, white, and red. The text and symbols are rendered in a low-resolution pixel art style typical of early 2000s digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated text and symbols on black background with red heart symbol in center.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Mood

  • affectionate
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • ILY <333 heart animation
  • pixel art heart animation
  • red heart pulsing text
  • ILY <333 black background

Objects

  • heart symbol
  • text

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • symmetrical

Subjects

  • heart symbol
  • text

Visible Text

  • ILY
  • <333

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • red heart symbol
  • ILY text
  • <333 text
  • centered composition
  • low-resolution pixel art
  • heart animation
  • pulsing heart
  • symmetrical layout
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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
20090411173346471898
Archive entry
20090411173346471898.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 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#20090411173346471898.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090411173346471898.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016