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Red heart symbol flanked by white vertical lines above pixelated '<3' symbols and 'EMO BOYS EMO BOYS' text on black background.

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Red heart symbol flanked by white vertical lines above pixelated '<3' symbols and 'EMO BOYS EMO BOYS' text on black background.

Red heart symbol flanked by white vertical lines above pixelated '<3' symbols and 'EMO BOYS EMO BOYS' text on black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Arc…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; static pixel art composition.

Composition

  • centered heart top
  • symmetrical '<3' below center
  • repeated text bottom

Dense Caption

Black background with red pixelated heart symbol centered at top, two white vertical lines flanking it. Below center are two identical gray pixelated '<3' symbols side-by-side. At bottom is repeated gray pixelated text 'EMO BOYS EMO BOYS'. All elements use blocky 8-bit style rendering; no visible animation changes across observations.

Description

  • Red heart symbol flanked by white vertical lines above pixelated '<3' symbols and 'EMO BOYS EMO BOYS' text on black background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • 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
  • 200709061807321049025554

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red heart white lines '<3' EMO BOYS
  • 8-bit 'EMO BOYS' text '<3' symbols
  • pixelated red heart black background

Objects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • EMO BOYS EMO BOYS

Wordwall

  • red heart symbol
  • white vertical lines
  • gray '<3' symbols
  • gray 'EMO BOYS' text
  • black background
  • pixelated rendering

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709061807321049025554
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
826 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/d1/d193ff52e1a5141172f0f95655fd3d27d1d70e37a49aa8b801193f9053bad423.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 UTC
Archive ID
d193ff52e1a51411
SHA-256
d193ff52e1a5141172f0f95655fd3d27d1d70e37a49aa8b801193f9053bad423
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:46 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.083005

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.923272onnx/unsafe0.083005onnx/nsfl0.042845onnx/nsfw0.040160
Enrichment records (1)
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Red heart symbol flanked by white vertical lines above pixelated '<3' symbols and 'EMO BOYS EMO BOYS' text on black background.

Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 23:57 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,970 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,147, response 553

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • 3 symbols (object, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (object, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
  • vertical lines (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • blocky rendering (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; static pixel art composition.

Colors

  • red
  • white
  • gray
  • black

Composition

  • centered heart top
  • symmetrical '<3' below center
  • repeated text bottom

Dense Caption

Black background with red pixelated heart symbol centered at top, two white vertical lines flanking it. Below center are two identical gray pixelated '<3' symbols side-by-side. At bottom is repeated gray pixelated text 'EMO BOYS EMO BOYS'. All elements use blocky 8-bit style rendering; no visible animation changes across observations.

Description

  • Red heart symbol flanked by white vertical lines above pixelated '<3' symbols and 'EMO BOYS EMO BOYS' text on black background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • 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
  • 200709061807321049025554

Mood

  • nostalgic
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red heart white lines '<3' EMO BOYS
  • 8-bit 'EMO BOYS' text '<3' symbols
  • pixelated red heart black background

Objects

  • heart symbol
  • vertical lines
  • '<3' symbols
  • text

Style

  • 8-bit pixel art
  • blocky rendering

Visible Text

  • EMO BOYS EMO BOYS

Wordwall

  • red heart symbol
  • white vertical lines
  • gray '<3' symbols
  • gray 'EMO BOYS' text
  • black background
  • pixelated rendering
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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
200709061807321049025554
Archive entry
200709061807321049025554.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 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#200709061807321049025554.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709061807321049025554.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016