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Red background with black text 'i luv mallory' and a white pixelated heart symbol above the left instance of 'luv'.

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Red background with black text 'i luv mallory' and a white pixelated heart symbol above the left instance of 'luv'.

Red background with black text 'i luv mallory' and a white pixelated heart symbol above the left instance of 'luv'. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksI…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered layout
  • symmetrical arrangement of text pairs
  • heart positioned above 'luv' on left side

Dense Caption

Solid red background. Two identical instances of black pixelated text: 'i', then 'luv', then 'mallory' stacked vertically on each side. A white pixelated heart symbol is positioned directly above the 'luv' in the left instance, replacing a standard letter or punctuation. The right instance has no heart symbol. All elements are rendered with 8-bit style pixels.

Description

  • Red background with black text 'i luv mallory' and a white pixelated heart symbol above the left instance of 'luv'.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background pixel art
  • i luv mallory heart symbol
  • pixelated text red white black
  • heart above luv

Objects

  • heart symbol

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • i
  • luv
  • mallory

Visually Supported Entities

  • mallory

Wordwall

  • red background
  • black text
  • white heart symbol
  • pixelated font
  • stacked text layout
  • 'i luv mallory' text
  • heart above 'luv'
  • left and right text pairs

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070905143836714560074
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 UTC

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GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
225 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 UTC
Archive ID
bb31f45f2091d760
SHA-256
bb31f45f2091d760905163a4f9fc9ee9d91a9165addf9682eecd063428b1f38d
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:34 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.094450

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Red background with black text 'i luv mallory' and a white pixelated heart symbol above the left instance of 'luv'.

Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 23:40 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,623 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,143, response 599

Review tags

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  • white (color, 0.80)
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  • red
  • black
  • white

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  • centered layout
  • symmetrical arrangement of text pairs
  • heart positioned above 'luv' on left side

Dense Caption

Solid red background. Two identical instances of black pixelated text: 'i', then 'luv', then 'mallory' stacked vertically on each side. A white pixelated heart symbol is positioned directly above the 'luv' in the left instance, replacing a standard letter or punctuation. The right instance has no heart symbol. All elements are rendered with 8-bit style pixels.

Description

  • Red background with black text 'i luv mallory' and a white pixelated heart symbol above the left instance of 'luv'.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background pixel art
  • i luv mallory heart symbol
  • pixelated text red white black
  • heart above luv

Objects

  • heart symbol

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit
  • monospaced text

Subjects

  • text
  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • i
  • luv
  • mallory

Visually Supported Entities

  • mallory

Wordwall

  • red background
  • black text
  • white heart symbol
  • pixelated font
  • stacked text layout
  • 'i luv mallory' text
  • heart above 'luv'
  • left and right text pairs
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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
20070905143836714560074
Archive entry
20070905143836714560074.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 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#20070905143836714560074.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070905143836714560074.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016