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Green text 'i <3 steve' on bright pink background with white and pink pixelated hearts below, animated heart sequence.

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Green text 'i <3 steve' on bright pink background with white and pink pixelated hearts below, animated heart sequence.

Green text 'i <3 steve' on bright pink background with white and pink pixelated hearts below, animated heart sequence. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fran…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • heart positions shift left

Animation Summary

  • The hearts shift left by one position between frames.

Composition

  • text top
  • hearts bottom
  • horizontal

Dense Caption

Bright pink background. Green pixelated text 'i <3 steve' in two lines: 'i <3' on top, 'steve' below. Below text, five pixelated hearts in a row: first two white, third pink, fourth white, fifth white. In the second frame, the hearts shift: first two white, third pink, fourth white, fifth white becomes first white, second white, third pink, fourth white, fifth white. The text and background remain unchanged. The animation shows the hearts moving one position to the left.

Description

  • Green text 'i <3 steve' on bright pink background with white and pink pixelated hearts below, animated heart sequence.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i <3 steve hearts
  • green text pink background
  • pixelated hearts animation
  • heart sequence pink background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: horizontal row

Visible Text

  • i <3 steve

Wordwall

  • green text
  • pink background
  • i <3 steve
  • pixelated hearts
  • white hearts
  • pink heart
  • heart sequence
  • bright pink
  • text on background
  • heart positions

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081019063728662587109
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
797 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/d5/d5f5dc7121c4e43d6404b730b432ddbf078b3dc86d66f5bbc2c1cc74283026de.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 UTC
Archive ID
d5f5dc7121c4e43d
SHA-256
d5f5dc7121c4e43d6404b730b432ddbf078b3dc86d66f5bbc2c1cc74283026de
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:48 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.053702

OpenAI category scores

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Green text 'i <3 steve' on bright pink background with white and pink pixelated hearts below, animated heart sequence.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 04:44 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,962 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,142, response 693

Review tags

  • hearts shift left (action, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • heart positions shift left (other, 0.80)
  • animated (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • hearts (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • hearts shift left

Animation

  • heart positions shift left

Animation Summary

  • The hearts shift left by one position between frames.

Colors

  • pink
  • green
  • white

Composition

  • text top
  • hearts bottom
  • horizontal

Dense Caption

Bright pink background. Green pixelated text 'i <3 steve' in two lines: 'i <3' on top, 'steve' below. Below text, five pixelated hearts in a row: first two white, third pink, fourth white, fifth white. In the second frame, the hearts shift: first two white, third pink, fourth white, fifth white becomes first white, second white, third pink, fourth white, fifth white. The text and background remain unchanged. The animation shows the hearts moving one position to the left.

Description

  • Green text 'i <3 steve' on bright pink background with white and pink pixelated hearts below, animated heart sequence.

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

Mood

  • playful
  • affectionate

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i <3 steve hearts
  • green text pink background
  • pixelated hearts animation
  • heart sequence pink background

Objects

  • hearts

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: horizontal row

Style

  • pixelated
  • animated

Subjects

  • hearts

Visible Text

  • i <3 steve

Wordwall

  • green text
  • pink background
  • i <3 steve
  • pixelated hearts
  • white hearts
  • pink heart
  • heart sequence
  • bright pink
  • text on background
  • heart positions
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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
20081019063728662587109
Archive entry
20081019063728662587109.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 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#20081019063728662587109.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081019063728662587109.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016