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Pixelated icon with black text 'i <33 Josh' and pink heart or sparkles above the 'i' in four variations.

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Pixelated icon with black text 'i <33 Josh' and pink heart or sparkles above the 'i' in four variations.

Pixelated icon with black text 'i <33 Josh' and pink heart or sparkles above the 'i' in four variations. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • heart changes to sparkles
  • sparkles change to heart

Animation Summary

  • The icon cycles through four states: solid pink heart above 'i', pink sparkles above 'i', pink sparkles above 'i', and no symbol above 'i'.

Composition

  • text centered
  • symbol above text

Dense Caption

Four variations of a pixelated icon display black text 'i <33 Josh' with a lowercase 'i' above '<33' and 'Josh' below. The top-left variation shows a solid pink heart above the 'i'. The top-right variation shows pink sparkles above the 'i'. The bottom-left variation shows pink sparkles above the 'i'. The bottom-right variation shows no symbol above the 'i'. All icons have a white background and consistent text layout.

Description

  • Pixelated icon with black text 'i <33 Josh' and pink heart or sparkles above the 'i' in four variations.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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
  • 20070831151539801297786

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i <33 Josh pink heart
  • i <33 Josh pink sparkles
  • text-based pixelated icon
  • buddy icon animation

Objects

  • heart

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling
  • no cropping

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Visible Text

  • i
  • <33
  • Josh

Wordwall

  • black text
  • white background
  • pixelated
  • i <33 Josh
  • pink heart
  • pink sparkles
  • four variations
  • solid heart
  • sparkle pattern

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070831151539801297786
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
844 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/c2/c252728498c3e3c28eb1348e9a2659c486742dfa602014f043c3e4a32c72925f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 UTC
Archive ID
c252728498c3e3c2
SHA-256
c252728498c3e3c28eb1348e9a2659c486742dfa602014f043c3e4a32c72925f
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:38 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.094766

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated icon with black text 'i <33 Josh' and pink heart or sparkles above the 'i' in four variations.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 08:38 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,899 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 786

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • heart (object, 0.80)
  • sparkles (object, 0.80)
  • heart changes to sparkles (other, 0.80)
  • sparkles change to heart (other, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • heart changes to sparkles
  • sparkles change to heart

Animation Summary

  • The icon cycles through four states: solid pink heart above 'i', pink sparkles above 'i', pink sparkles above 'i', and no symbol above 'i'.

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • pink

Composition

  • text centered
  • symbol above text

Dense Caption

Four variations of a pixelated icon display black text 'i <33 Josh' with a lowercase 'i' above '<33' and 'Josh' below. The top-left variation shows a solid pink heart above the 'i'. The top-right variation shows pink sparkles above the 'i'. The bottom-left variation shows pink sparkles above the 'i'. The bottom-right variation shows no symbol above the 'i'. All icons have a white background and consistent text layout.

Description

  • Pixelated icon with black text 'i <33 Josh' and pink heart or sparkles above the 'i' in four variations.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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
  • 20070831151539801297786

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • affectionate
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i <33 Josh pink heart
  • i <33 Josh pink sparkles
  • text-based pixelated icon
  • buddy icon animation

Objects

  • heart
  • sparkles

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling
  • no cropping

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based

Subjects

  • text

Visible Text

  • i
  • <33
  • Josh

Wordwall

  • black text
  • white background
  • pixelated
  • i <33 Josh
  • pink heart
  • pink sparkles
  • four variations
  • solid heart
  • sparkle pattern
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 13:48 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
20070831151539801297786
Archive entry
20070831151539801297786.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 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#20070831151539801297786.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070831151539801297786.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016