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Animated icon with black text 'I <3 ?' surrounded by colorful pixelated hearts and small floating shapes.

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Animated icon with black text 'I <3 ?' surrounded by colorful pixelated hearts and small floating shapes.

Animated icon with black text 'I <3 ?' surrounded by colorful pixelated hearts and small floating shapes. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Share…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • hearts and shapes shift positions
  • gray overlay appears on right

Animation Summary

The icon displays shifting positions of hearts and floating shapes around static text 'I <3 ?', with a gray overlay appearing on the right side in some frames.

Composition

  • text centered
  • hearts surrounding text
  • floating shapes scattered

Dense Caption

The icon features black text 'I <3 ?' in a pixelated font. Surrounding the text are multiple pixelated hearts in teal, pink, green, and light blue. Small floating shapes include a yellow butterfly, dark gray dots, and pastel-colored abstract forms. The background is white. In the animation, the hearts and floating shapes shift positions while the text remains static. The right side of the icon has a gray rectangular overlay in some frames.

Description

  • Animated icon with black text 'I <3 ?' surrounded by colorful pixelated hearts and small floating shapes.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • anime
  • celebrities
  • games
  • holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 2008091413445322692507
  • 2007
  • 2016
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • anime
  • celebrities
  • games
  • historical-archive

Metadata Supported By Image

  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive
  • humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • I <3 ? hearts butterfly
  • pixelated hearts animated
  • buddy icon text I <3 ?
  • hearts shifting positions
  • gray overlay buddy icon
  • pastel abstract shapes
  • yellow butterfly hearts
  • text I <3 ? floating shapes

Objects

  • butterfly

Preprocessing Notes

  • gray overlay is part of the animation frames

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 2008091413445322692507
  • 2007
  • 2016
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • anime
  • buddy-icons
  • celebrities
  • games
  • historical-archive
  • holidays
  • humor

Subjects

  • butterfly

Visible Text

  • I <3 ?

Wordwall

  • black text 'I <3 ?'
  • teal heart
  • pink heart
  • green heart
  • yellow butterfly
  • dark gray dots
  • light blue heart
  • pastel abstract shapes
  • white background
  • gray overlay

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2008091413445322692507
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.4 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/c9/c9997135ce030e7476d47c49c295a1d8fd6b371973dd8767d9ca3939f05870c8.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC
Archive ID
c9997135ce030e74
SHA-256
c9997135ce030e7476d47c49c295a1d8fd6b371973dd8767d9ca3939f05870c8
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:41 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.076610

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.936633onnx/unsafe0.076610onnx/nsfw0.046522onnx/nsfl0.030088
Enrichment records (1)
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Animated icon with black text 'I <3 ?' surrounded by colorful pixelated hearts and small floating shapes.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 00:14 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,612 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 865

Review tags

  • shifting positions (action, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • teal (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • whimsical (mood, 0.80)
  • animated (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • abstract shapes (subject, 0.80)
  • butterfly (subject, 0.80)
  • dots (subject, 0.80)
  • hearts (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • shifting positions

Animation

  • hearts and shapes shift positions
  • gray overlay appears on right

Animation Summary

The icon displays shifting positions of hearts and floating shapes around static text 'I <3 ?', with a gray overlay appearing on the right side in some frames.

Colors

  • teal
  • pink
  • green
  • yellow
  • dark gray
  • light blue
  • pastel
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • text centered
  • hearts surrounding text
  • floating shapes scattered

Dense Caption

The icon features black text 'I <3 ?' in a pixelated font. Surrounding the text are multiple pixelated hearts in teal, pink, green, and light blue. Small floating shapes include a yellow butterfly, dark gray dots, and pastel-colored abstract forms. The background is white. In the animation, the hearts and floating shapes shift positions while the text remains static. The right side of the icon has a gray rectangular overlay in some frames.

Description

  • Animated icon with black text 'I <3 ?' surrounded by colorful pixelated hearts and small floating shapes.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • anime
  • celebrities
  • games
  • holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 2008091413445322692507
  • 2007
  • 2016
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • anime
  • celebrities
  • games
  • historical-archive

Metadata Supported By Image

  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive
  • humor

Mood

  • playful
  • whimsical

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • I <3 ? hearts butterfly
  • pixelated hearts animated
  • buddy icon text I <3 ?
  • hearts shifting positions
  • gray overlay buddy icon
  • pastel abstract shapes
  • yellow butterfly hearts
  • text I <3 ? floating shapes

Objects

  • hearts
  • butterfly
  • dots
  • abstract shapes

Preprocessing Notes

  • gray overlay is part of the animation frames

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 2008091413445322692507
  • 2007
  • 2016
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • anime
  • buddy-icons
  • celebrities
  • games
  • historical-archive
  • holidays
  • humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • animated
  • buddy-icon

Subjects

  • hearts
  • butterfly
  • dots
  • abstract shapes

Visible Text

  • I <3 ?

Wordwall

  • black text 'I <3 ?'
  • teal heart
  • pink heart
  • green heart
  • yellow butterfly
  • dark gray dots
  • light blue heart
  • pastel abstract shapes
  • white background
  • gray overlay
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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
2008091413445322692507
Archive entry
2008091413445322692507.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 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#2008091413445322692507.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2008091413445322692507.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016