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Blue background with a blue pixelated heart above two identical black pixelated text blocks reading 'I <3 ????'.

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Blue background with a blue pixelated heart above two identical black pixelated text blocks reading 'I <3 ????'.

Blue background with a blue pixelated heart above two identical black pixelated text blocks reading 'I <3 ????'. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcon…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered heart
  • symmetrical text blocks

Dense Caption

Solid cyan background. Centered at the top is a blue pixelated heart shape. Below the heart, two identical vertical text blocks are positioned side-by-side. Each block contains a black pixelated 'I' character, followed by a black pixelated '<3' symbol, and then four black pixelated question marks. The text blocks are identical in size, spacing, and pixel arrangement. The heart is slightly offset to the left of the horizontal center. All elements are rendered in a low-resolution pixel art style with no visible animation.

Description

  • Blue background with a blue pixelated heart above two identical black pixelated text blocks reading 'I <3 ????'.

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

  • cyan background blue heart black text
  • pixelated heart text blocks
  • I <3 ???? cyan blue black
  • low resolution pixel art heart

Objects

  • heart

Subjects

  • heart

Visible Text

  • I
  • <3
  • ????

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • blue pixelated heart
  • black pixelated 'I'
  • black pixelated '<3'
  • black pixelated '????'
  • identical text blocks
  • low-resolution pixel art
  • solid color background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081105174723905986053
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
207 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/da/da022471e931ab9a9a5127547e599a621fc0476e62685330031df0c4a7614811.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 UTC
Archive ID
da022471e931ab9a
SHA-256
da022471e931ab9a9a5127547e599a621fc0476e62685330031df0c4a7614811
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:50 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.087062

OpenAI category scores

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Blue background with a blue pixelated heart above two identical black pixelated text blocks reading 'I <3 ????'.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 07:17 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,814 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,146, response 683

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
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Colors

  • cyan
  • blue
  • black

Composition

  • centered heart
  • symmetrical text blocks

Dense Caption

Solid cyan background. Centered at the top is a blue pixelated heart shape. Below the heart, two identical vertical text blocks are positioned side-by-side. Each block contains a black pixelated 'I' character, followed by a black pixelated '<3' symbol, and then four black pixelated question marks. The text blocks are identical in size, spacing, and pixel arrangement. The heart is slightly offset to the left of the horizontal center. All elements are rendered in a low-resolution pixel art style with no visible animation.

Description

  • Blue background with a blue pixelated heart above two identical black pixelated text blocks reading 'I <3 ????'.

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

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  • cyan background blue heart black text
  • pixelated heart text blocks
  • I <3 ???? cyan blue black
  • low resolution pixel art heart

Objects

  • heart
  • text

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • heart
  • text

Visible Text

  • I
  • <3
  • ????

Wordwall

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  • blue pixelated heart
  • black pixelated 'I'
  • black pixelated '<3'
  • black pixelated '????'
  • identical text blocks
  • low-resolution pixel art
  • solid color background
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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
20081105174723905986053
Archive entry
20081105174723905986053.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 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#20081105174723905986053.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081105174723905986053.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016