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Pixelated text and symbols on a bright pink background, with one version showing a heart symbol replacing the word 'love' in 'i love you <3'.

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Pixelated text and symbols on a bright pink background, with one version showing a heart symbol replacing the word 'love' in 'i love you <3'.

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static image with two variations of the same design

Composition

  • centered text
  • two versions side-by-side

Dense Caption

Bright pink solid background. Left side displays white pixelated lowercase text "i love" followed by a white pixelated heart outline symbol, then below it "you" and "<3"; right side shows identical text but with the word "love" instead of the heart symbol. All elements are rendered in low-resolution 8-bit style with visible dithering. The left version has one additional visual element (the heart) compared to the right.

Description

Pixelated text and symbols on a bright pink background, with one version showing a heart symbol replacing the word 'love' in 'i love you <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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i love you <3
  • heart symbol i love you
  • pink background pixelated text
  • <3 heart version

Objects

  • <3

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • i love you <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • <3 symbol

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • white pixelated text
  • i love you <3
  • heart symbol
  • low-resolution rendering

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090207150509418149486
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:51 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
781 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/db/db5f37f909f2792c9af4906ebc014d16dd58cd996bb02f0b88e49da82df29b13.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:51 UTC
Archive ID
db5f37f909f2792c
SHA-256
db5f37f909f2792c9af4906ebc014d16dd58cd996bb02f0b88e49da82df29b13
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:51 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.119299

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text and symbols on a bright pink background, with one version showing a heart symbol replacing the word 'love' in 'i love you <3'.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 21:59 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,405 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,142, response 595

Review tags

  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static image with two variations of the same design

Colors

  • pink
  • white

Composition

  • centered text
  • two versions side-by-side

Dense Caption

Bright pink solid background. Left side displays white pixelated lowercase text "i love" followed by a white pixelated heart outline symbol, then below it "you" and "<3"; right side shows identical text but with the word "love" instead of the heart symbol. All elements are rendered in low-resolution 8-bit style with visible dithering. The left version has one additional visual element (the heart) compared to the right.

Description

Pixelated text and symbols on a bright pink background, with one version showing a heart symbol replacing the word 'love' in 'i love you <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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • affectionate
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i love you <3
  • heart symbol i love you
  • pink background pixelated text
  • <3 heart version

Objects

  • <3

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • 8-bit

Subjects

  • text
  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • i love you <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • <3 symbol

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • white pixelated text
  • i love you <3
  • heart symbol
  • low-resolution 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
20090207150509418149486
Archive entry
20090207150509418149486.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:51 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#20090207150509418149486.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090207150509418149486.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016