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Pixelated white text and heart symbols on black background with animated heart color changes.

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Pixelated white text and heart symbols on black background with animated heart color changes.

Pixelated white text and heart symbols on black background with animated heart color changes. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icon…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • heart colors alternate between white and gray across frames

Animation Summary

  • Hearts alternate color between white and gray while text remains static.

Composition

  • horizontal text pairs above hearts
  • centered heart positions

Dense Caption

Black background displays pixelated white text 'ily' above '3/31/08', repeated twice horizontally. Two hearts appear below the text: left heart is solid white, right heart is grayed-out. In subsequent frames, the left heart turns gray and the right heart becomes solid white. Text remains static throughout animation.

Description

  • Pixelated white text and heart symbols on black background with animated heart color changes.

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
  • 20080427153654238510843

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • ily 3/31/08 hearts animation
  • pixelated heart swap black background
  • white gray heart animation
  • 3/31/08 animated hearts

Visible Text

  • ily
  • 3/31/08

Wordwall

  • black background
  • pixelated white text
  • 'ily' above '3/31/08'
  • two horizontal text pairs
  • heart symbols
  • white heart
  • grayed-out heart
  • animated color swap

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080427153654238510843
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:24 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
910 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/c4/c4d90c41266e1d520c80958f341b09d7ead036322822fed519159d21a876dbc0.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:24 UTC
Archive ID
c4d90c41266e1d52
SHA-256
c4d90c41266e1d520c80958f341b09d7ead036322822fed519159d21a876dbc0
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:39 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.089375

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated white text and heart symbols on black background with animated heart color changes.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 09:30 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,676 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 644

Review tags

  • heart color swaps (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • monochrome (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • hearts (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • heart color swaps

Animation

  • heart colors alternate between white and gray across frames

Animation Summary

  • Hearts alternate color between white and gray while text remains static.

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • horizontal text pairs above hearts
  • centered heart positions

Dense Caption

Black background displays pixelated white text 'ily' above '3/31/08', repeated twice horizontally. Two hearts appear below the text: left heart is solid white, right heart is grayed-out. In subsequent frames, the left heart turns gray and the right heart becomes solid white. Text remains static throughout animation.

Description

  • Pixelated white text and heart symbols on black background with animated heart color changes.

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
  • 20080427153654238510843

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • ily 3/31/08 hearts animation
  • pixelated heart swap black background
  • white gray heart animation
  • 3/31/08 animated hearts

Objects

  • hearts

Style

  • pixelated
  • monochrome

Subjects

  • text
  • hearts

Visible Text

  • ily
  • 3/31/08

Wordwall

  • black background
  • pixelated white text
  • 'ily' above '3/31/08'
  • two horizontal text pairs
  • heart symbols
  • white heart
  • grayed-out heart
  • animated color swap
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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
20080427153654238510843
Archive entry
20080427153654238510843.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:24 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#20080427153654238510843.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080427153654238510843.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016