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Red background with repeated 'ily <3' text and white pixelated hearts arranged in a pattern

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Red background with repeated 'ily <3' text and white pixelated hearts arranged in a pattern

Red background with repeated 'ily <3' text and white pixelated hearts arranged in a pattern. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text above hearts
  • gray corner

Dense Caption

Red background with three rows of black text reading 'ily <3' in a grid layout; each text row has three instances of 'ily <3' spaced evenly. Below each 'ily <3' text is a white pixelated heart symbol. The hearts are arranged in a 3x3 grid matching the text positions. The bottom-right corner shows a gray rectangular area partially obscuring the grid. All elements are static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Red background with repeated 'ily <3' text and white pixelated hearts arranged in a pattern

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • ily <3 hearts
  • red background pixel hearts
  • text hearts
  • gray corner pixel hearts

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Red background with repeated 'ily <3' text and white pixelated hearts arranged in a grid pattern.
  • quarantined wordwall: 3x3 grid layout
  • quarantined style: grid
  • quarantined composition: 3x3 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 3x3 grid text hearts

Visible Text

  • ily <3

Wordwall

  • red background
  • ily <3 text
  • white pixelated hearts
  • gray rectangle corner
  • black text
  • pixelated rendering
  • static image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200810031835511176571569
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
570 bytes
Motion
Animated (8 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/d3/d372d5cf6f779a738fb00a6952689c96570c1b1b89ce96e25b637964d712c2bb.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC
Archive ID
d372d5cf6f779a73
SHA-256
d372d5cf6f779a738fb00a6952689c96570c1b1b89ce96e25b637964d712c2bb
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:47 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.072345

OpenAI category scores

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Red background with repeated 'ily <3' text and white pixelated hearts arranged in a pattern

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 02:45 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,072 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 656

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive (style, 0.80)
  • hearts (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • text above hearts
  • gray corner

Dense Caption

Red background with three rows of black text reading 'ily <3' in a grid layout; each text row has three instances of 'ily <3' spaced evenly. Below each 'ily <3' text is a white pixelated heart symbol. The hearts are arranged in a 3x3 grid matching the text positions. The bottom-right corner shows a gray rectangular area partially obscuring the grid. All elements are static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Red background with repeated 'ily <3' text and white pixelated hearts arranged in a pattern

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Mood

  • affectionate
  • repetitive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • ily <3 hearts
  • red background pixel hearts
  • text hearts
  • gray corner pixel hearts

Objects

  • hearts

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Red background with repeated 'ily <3' text and white pixelated hearts arranged in a grid pattern.
  • quarantined wordwall: 3x3 grid layout
  • quarantined style: grid
  • quarantined composition: 3x3 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 3x3 grid text hearts

Style

  • pixelated
  • repetitive

Subjects

  • text
  • hearts

Visible Text

  • ily <3

Wordwall

  • red background
  • ily <3 text
  • white pixelated hearts
  • gray rectangle corner
  • black text
  • pixelated rendering
  • static image
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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
200810031835511176571569
Archive entry
200810031835511176571569.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 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#200810031835511176571569.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200810031835511176571569.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016