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Pixelated white text and symbols on black background: 'I LOVE YOU' with heart symbol above and '<3' below, left side shows heart symbol, right side shows solid heart.

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Pixelated white text and symbols on black background: 'I LOVE YOU' with heart symbol above and '<3' below, left side shows heart symbol, right side shows solid heart.

Pixelated white text and symbols on black background: 'I LOVE YOU' with heart symbol above and '<3' below, left side shows heart symbol, right side shows solid heart. Animated 48×…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered text
  • symmetrical layout
  • two identical sections with heart variation

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text and symbols. Left side displays 'I' above 'LOVE' above 'YOU' above '<3', with a pixelated heart symbol above 'LOVE'. Right side displays 'I' above 'LOVE' above 'YOU' above '<3', with a solid heart symbol above 'LOVE'. Both sides share identical text and '<3' symbol. The heart symbol on the left is pixelated with visible gaps, while the heart symbol on the right is solid and filled. All text is uppercase, using a blocky, retro digital font. The image is static with no animation.

Description

Pixelated white text and symbols on black background: 'I LOVE YOU' with heart symbol above and '<3' below, left side shows heart symbol, right side shows solid heart.

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 LOVE YOU <3 heart
  • pixelated heart vs solid heart
  • retro digital text
  • black background white text

Objects

  • heart symbol

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • I
  • LOVE
  • YOU
  • <3

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • I LOVE YOU
  • <3 symbol
  • heart symbol
  • left side heart pixelated
  • right side heart solid
  • blocky digital font
  • uppercase text
  • retro aesthetic

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071121122935627464270
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:59 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
217 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:59 UTC
Archive ID
ddb1d0b95b69c967
SHA-256
ddb1d0b95b69c9679204274b85fbf246f96c512185536aeaaf45ac0b08268e54
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:52 UTC
Run
1140
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image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.079480

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated white text and symbols on black background: 'I LOVE YOU' with heart symbol above and '<3' below, left side shows heart symbol, right side shows solid heart.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 09:57 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,251 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,144, response 723

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white

Composition

  • centered text
  • symmetrical layout
  • two identical sections with heart variation

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text and symbols. Left side displays 'I' above 'LOVE' above 'YOU' above '<3', with a pixelated heart symbol above 'LOVE'. Right side displays 'I' above 'LOVE' above 'YOU' above '<3', with a solid heart symbol above 'LOVE'. Both sides share identical text and '<3' symbol. The heart symbol on the left is pixelated with visible gaps, while the heart symbol on the right is solid and filled. All text is uppercase, using a blocky, retro digital font. The image is static with no animation.

Description

Pixelated white text and symbols on black background: 'I LOVE YOU' with heart symbol above and '<3' below, left side shows heart symbol, right side shows solid heart.

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

  • affectionate
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • I LOVE YOU <3 heart
  • pixelated heart vs solid heart
  • retro digital text
  • black background white text

Objects

  • heart symbol

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • text
  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • I
  • LOVE
  • YOU
  • <3

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • I LOVE YOU
  • <3 symbol
  • heart symbol
  • left side heart pixelated
  • right side heart solid
  • blocky digital font
  • uppercase text
  • retro aesthetic
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 21:01 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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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
20071121122935627464270
Archive entry
20071121122935627464270.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:59 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#20071121122935627464270.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071121122935627464270.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016