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Pixelated white text and symbols on black background with one frame showing a heart outline replacing the 'i' character.

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Pixelated white text and symbols on black background with one frame showing a heart outline replacing the 'i' character.

Pixelated white text and symbols on black background with one frame showing a heart outline replacing the 'i' character. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fr…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • one frame shows heart outline replacing the 'i'
  • heart reverts to 'i' in next frame

Animation Summary

  • Heart symbol replaces 'i' character in first frame, reverts to 'i' in second frame; all other text and layout remain unchanged.

Composition

  • centered text layout
  • vertical alignment

Dense Caption

Black background displays pixelated white text: first line reads "i" followed by a heart symbol, second line "love", third line "austen.<3", fourth line "a.a.f.", fifth line "10*6*09". Second frame replaces the heart with an 'i' character; all other elements remain identical across both frames.

Description

  • Pixelated white text and symbols on black background with one frame showing a heart outline replacing the 'i' character.

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

  • austen <3
  • 10*6*09
  • a.a.f. heart icon
  • love austen 2009

Objects

  • <3 symbol

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • i
  • love
  • austen.<3
  • a.a.f.
  • 10*6*09

Visually Supported Entities

  • austen.<3
  • a.a.f.
  • 10*6*09

Wordwall

  • heart symbol
  • pixelated text
  • black background
  • white characters
  • austen.<3
  • a.a.f.
  • 10*6*09

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20091007042100228783074
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
270 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/c3/c3c876097274aaba7eef71ebcd8f3b4f475ec3a26e7c3f6039f4edffc0c068bc.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 UTC
Archive ID
c3c876097274aaba
SHA-256
c3c876097274aaba7eef71ebcd8f3b4f475ec3a26e7c3f6039f4edffc0c068bc
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
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
0.077852

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated white text and symbols on black background with one frame showing a heart outline replacing the 'i' character.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 18:46 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,649 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,140, response 654

Review tags

  • heart replaces i character (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • 3 symbol (object, 0.80)
  • heart reverts to i in next frame (other, 0.80)
  • one frame shows heart outline replacing the i (other, 0.80)
  • monochrome (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text characters (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • heart replaces 'i' character

Animation

  • one frame shows heart outline replacing the 'i'
  • heart reverts to 'i' in next frame

Animation Summary

  • Heart symbol replaces 'i' character in first frame, reverts to 'i' in second frame; all other text and layout remain unchanged.

Colors

  • black
  • white

Composition

  • centered text layout
  • vertical alignment

Dense Caption

Black background displays pixelated white text: first line reads "i" followed by a heart symbol, second line "love", third line "austen.<3", fourth line "a.a.f.", fifth line "10*6*09". Second frame replaces the heart with an 'i' character; all other elements remain identical across both frames.

Description

  • Pixelated white text and symbols on black background with one frame showing a heart outline replacing the 'i' character.

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

  • austen <3
  • 10*6*09
  • a.a.f. heart icon
  • love austen 2009

Objects

  • <3 symbol

Style

  • pixel art
  • monochrome

Subjects

  • heart symbol
  • text characters

Visible Text

  • i
  • love
  • austen.<3
  • a.a.f.
  • 10*6*09

Visually Supported Entities

  • austen.<3
  • a.a.f.
  • 10*6*09

Wordwall

  • heart symbol
  • pixelated text
  • black background
  • white characters
  • austen.<3
  • a.a.f.
  • 10*6*09
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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
20091007042100228783074
Archive entry
20091007042100228783074.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 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#20091007042100228783074.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20091007042100228783074.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016