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A static pixel art icon with a cyan heart symbol above pink text reading 'i luv byul' repeated twice on white background.

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A static pixel art icon with a cyan heart symbol above pink text reading 'i luv byul' repeated twice on white background.

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered heart above text
  • horizontal text segments

Dense Caption

Cyan pixelated heart symbol positioned at top center. Below, two identical horizontal segments of pink pixelated text: first segment reads 'i luv byul', second segment repeats 'i luv byul'. Text uses blocky 8-bit style with visible dithering and color bleeding. Background is solid white. No animation present.

Description

  • A static pixel art icon with a cyan heart symbol above pink text reading 'i luv byul' repeated twice on white background.

Identity Hypotheses

  • byul

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
  • 200712070730371773368807

Named Entities

  • byul

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan heart pink text i luv byul
  • pixel art heart text repeated
  • 8-bit style i luv byul icon
  • white background cyan heart

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • i luv byul

Visually Supported Entities

  • byul

Wordwall

  • cyan heart symbol
  • pink pixelated text
  • white background
  • blocky 8-bit style
  • text reads i luv byul
  • repeated twice

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200712070730371773368807
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:02 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
871 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 15:02 UTC
Archive ID
be041af834195a10
SHA-256
be041af834195a10c1b8e2b9a8b54a5a22368b45c4a55c7c37c51c7ca6a20eed
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:35 UTC
Run
1140
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image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
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A static pixel art icon with a cyan heart symbol above pink text reading 'i luv byul' repeated twice on white background.

Reviewed
July 30, 2026 at 23:50 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,072 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,147, response 628

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
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  • cyan
  • pink
  • white

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  • centered heart above text
  • horizontal text segments

Dense Caption

Cyan pixelated heart symbol positioned at top center. Below, two identical horizontal segments of pink pixelated text: first segment reads 'i luv byul', second segment repeats 'i luv byul'. Text uses blocky 8-bit style with visible dithering and color bleeding. Background is solid white. No animation present.

Description

  • A static pixel art icon with a cyan heart symbol above pink text reading 'i luv byul' repeated twice on white background.

Identity Hypotheses

  • byul

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
  • 200712070730371773368807

Named Entities

  • byul

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan heart pink text i luv byul
  • pixel art heart text repeated
  • 8-bit style i luv byul icon
  • white background cyan heart

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit
  • blocky

Subjects

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  • text

Visible Text

  • i luv byul

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  • byul

Wordwall

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  • pink pixelated text
  • white background
  • blocky 8-bit style
  • text reads i luv byul
  • repeated twice
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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
200712070730371773368807
Archive entry
200712070730371773368807.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:02 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#200712070730371773368807.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200712070730371773368807.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016