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Pixelated text and heart symbols on black background with animation changes in red hearts.

Pixelated text and heart symbols on black background with animation changes in red hearts. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…,…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • heart positions shift between frames

Animation Summary

  • Hearts shift positions between frames: first heart dark red, second through fourth solid red; fifth heart remains solid red.

Composition

  • vertical text alignment
  • horizontal heart

Dense Caption

Black background displays purple pixelated text "i luv u BEN!" arranged vertically. Below the text, five red pixelated heart symbols are horizontally aligned; from left to right: first two hearts solid red, third heart dark red (partially transparent), fourth and fifth hearts solid red. In the second observation frame, the heart positions shift: first heart becomes dark red, second through fourth become solid red, fifth returns to solid red.

Description

  • Pixelated text and heart symbols on black background with animation changes in red hearts.

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

Named Entities

  • BEN!

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i luv u BEN!
  • purple text hearts animation
  • red pixelated hearts black background
  • heart position shift

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: horizontal heart row

Visible Text

  • i luv u BEN!

Visually Supported Entities

  • BEN!

Wordwall

  • purple text
  • black background
  • red pixelated hearts
  • heart animation

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200712061453361834697289
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:02 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
268 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ce/ce9781cc6768335f157b9e7bed7a43f4ce2c13c7a161aae9f47b9c5b03df5759.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:02 UTC
Archive ID
ce9781cc6768335f
SHA-256
ce9781cc6768335f157b9e7bed7a43f4ce2c13c7a161aae9f47b9c5b03df5759
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
0.074571

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text and heart symbols on black background with animation changes in red hearts.

Reviewed
July 30, 2026 at 23:40 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,519 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,145, response 583

Review tags

  • heart positions shift (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • dark red (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • heart positions shift between frames (other, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • hearts (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • heart positions shift

Animation

  • heart positions shift between frames

Animation Summary

  • Hearts shift positions between frames: first heart dark red, second through fourth solid red; fifth heart remains solid red.

Colors

  • black
  • purple
  • red
  • dark red

Composition

  • vertical text alignment
  • horizontal heart

Dense Caption

Black background displays purple pixelated text "i luv u BEN!" arranged vertically. Below the text, five red pixelated heart symbols are horizontally aligned; from left to right: first two hearts solid red, third heart dark red (partially transparent), fourth and fifth hearts solid red. In the second observation frame, the heart positions shift: first heart becomes dark red, second through fourth become solid red, fifth returns to solid red.

Description

  • Pixelated text and heart symbols on black background with animation changes in red hearts.

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

Mood

  • affectionate
  • playful

Named Entities

  • BEN!

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i luv u BEN!
  • purple text hearts animation
  • red pixelated hearts black background
  • heart position shift

Objects

  • hearts

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: horizontal heart row

Style

  • pixelated
  • 8-bit

Subjects

  • text
  • hearts

Visible Text

  • i luv u BEN!

Visually Supported Entities

  • BEN!

Wordwall

  • purple text
  • black background
  • red pixelated hearts
  • heart animation
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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
200712061453361834697289
Archive entry
200712061453361834697289.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:02 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#200712061453361834697289.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200712061453361834697289.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016