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Pixelated text and symbols on black background with red heart replacing 'I' in 'When I' on left side.

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Pixelated text and symbols on black background with red heart replacing 'I' in 'When I' on left side.

Pixelated text and symbols on black background with red heart replacing 'I' in 'When I' on left side. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bu…

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Mood

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Composition

  • two identical vertical
  • text centered
  • symbols below text

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text reading 'When I see you make my <3 :)' in two identical vertical columns. Left column has red pixelated heart replacing the 'I' in 'When I'. Right column has standard white 'I' character. Both columns contain identical white pixelated symbols: '<3' (heart symbol) and ':)' (smiley face) below the text. Text uses blocky 8-bit style font. Left column's 'I' is replaced by red heart symbol. Right column's 'I' is standard white character. Both columns have identical text and symbols below the 'I' replacement. The heart symbol is red, all other text and symbols are white. The image is static with no animation.

Description

  • Pixelated text and symbols on black background with red heart replacing 'I' in 'When I' on left side.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red heart replaces I
  • two identical text
  • pixelated text heart symbol
  • 8-bit font smiley face
  • black background white text
  • heart symbol replaces I
  • text When I see you make my
  • white <3 symbol

Objects

  • heart symbol
  • smiley face

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: two identical vertical columns
  • quarantined composition: two identical vertical columns
  • quarantined retrieval: two identical text columns

Subjects

  • heart symbol
  • smiley face

Visible Text

  • When I see you make my <3 :)

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • red heart symbol
  • text: 'When I see you make my <3 :)'
  • two identical vertical
  • heart replaces 'I'
  • white '<3' symbol
  • white ':)' symbol
  • 8-bit font style
  • static image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200902141822471073700379
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
279 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/cf/cff61d4ece76ab3d7356d28f52c5c7ea7122cc6620d8db30a0a0a57351f4fb74.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 UTC
Archive ID
cff61d4ece76ab3d
SHA-256
cff61d4ece76ab3d7356d28f52c5c7ea7122cc6620d8db30a0a0a57351f4fb74
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:45 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.086094

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Pixelated text and symbols on black background with red heart replacing 'I' in 'When I' on left side.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 23:01 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,769 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,144, response 746

Review tags

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  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
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  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • smiley face (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • red

Composition

  • two identical vertical
  • text centered
  • symbols below text

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text reading 'When I see you make my <3 :)' in two identical vertical columns. Left column has red pixelated heart replacing the 'I' in 'When I'. Right column has standard white 'I' character. Both columns contain identical white pixelated symbols: '<3' (heart symbol) and ':)' (smiley face) below the text. Text uses blocky 8-bit style font. Left column's 'I' is replaced by red heart symbol. Right column's 'I' is standard white character. Both columns have identical text and symbols below the 'I' replacement. The heart symbol is red, all other text and symbols are white. The image is static with no animation.

Description

  • Pixelated text and symbols on black background with red heart replacing 'I' in 'When I' on left side.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • affectionate
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • two identical text
  • pixelated text heart symbol
  • 8-bit font smiley face
  • black background white text
  • heart symbol replaces I
  • text When I see you make my
  • white <3 symbol

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  • heart symbol
  • smiley face
  • text

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  • quarantined retrieval: two identical text columns

Style

  • pixelated
  • 8-bit
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • text
  • heart symbol
  • smiley face

Visible Text

  • When I see you make my <3 :)

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • red heart symbol
  • text: 'When I see you make my <3 :)'
  • two identical vertical
  • heart replaces 'I'
  • white '<3' symbol
  • white ':)' symbol
  • 8-bit font style
  • static image
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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
200902141822471073700379
Archive entry
200902141822471073700379.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 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#200902141822471073700379.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200902141822471073700379.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016