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<3 I LOVE on left; I LOVE YOU on right. Black and white pixel art with a heart symbol.

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<3 I LOVE on left; I LOVE YOU on right. Black and white pixel art with a heart symbol.

<3 I LOVE on left; I LOVE YOU on right. Black and white pixel art with a heart symbol. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Lat…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • two vertical sections
  • left section: <3 above I LOVE
  • right section: I above I LOVE YOU

Dense Caption

Black-and-white pixelated image divided into two vertical sections. Left section contains a black '<3' symbol (left-pointing arrow followed by number 3) above the text 'I LOVE' in blocky, uppercase pixels. Right section contains the letter 'I' at top center above the text 'I LOVE YOU' in blocky, uppercase pixels; 'LOVE' is centered over 'YOU'. All elements are rendered with low-resolution pixel art style on white background.

Description

  • <3 I LOVE on left; I LOVE YOU on right. Black and white pixel art with a heart symbol.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • <3 I LOVE
  • <3 I LOVE YOU
  • I LOVE I LOVE YOU
  • pixel art heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected; static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • I
  • LOVE
  • YOU

Visually Supported Entities

  • <3 symbol (heart)

Wordwall

  • <3 symbol
  • I LOVE text
  • I LOVE YOU text
  • black and white
  • pixelated
  • blocky font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071010184212990441015
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:49 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.2 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ce/ce3cb883b4568f426b6e583cd80e1475a79a098c1733933362962eaa8150f485.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:49 UTC
Archive ID
ce3cb883b4568f42
SHA-256
ce3cb883b4568f426b6e583cd80e1475a79a098c1733933362962eaa8150f485
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:44 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.095923

OpenAI category scores

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<3 I LOVE on left; I LOVE YOU on right. Black and white pixel art with a heart symbol.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 09:05 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,944 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 684

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • simple (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text elements (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white

Composition

  • two vertical sections
  • left section: <3 above I LOVE
  • right section: I above I LOVE YOU

Dense Caption

Black-and-white pixelated image divided into two vertical sections. Left section contains a black '<3' symbol (left-pointing arrow followed by number 3) above the text 'I LOVE' in blocky, uppercase pixels. Right section contains the letter 'I' at top center above the text 'I LOVE YOU' in blocky, uppercase pixels; 'LOVE' is centered over 'YOU'. All elements are rendered with low-resolution pixel art style on white background.

Description

  • <3 I LOVE on left; I LOVE YOU on right. Black and white pixel art with a heart symbol.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • affectionate
  • simple

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • <3 I LOVE
  • <3 I LOVE YOU
  • I LOVE I LOVE YOU
  • pixel art heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected; static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • blocky text

Subjects

  • heart symbol
  • text elements

Visible Text

  • I
  • LOVE
  • YOU

Visually Supported Entities

  • <3 symbol (heart)

Wordwall

  • <3 symbol
  • I LOVE text
  • I LOVE YOU text
  • black and white
  • pixelated
  • blocky font
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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
20071010184212990441015
Archive entry
20071010184212990441015.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:49 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#20071010184212990441015.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071010184212990441015.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016