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A pixelated icon with a pink heart symbol above cyan text reading 'i luv chris 9-9-08' on black background.

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A pixelated icon with a pink heart symbol above cyan text reading 'i luv chris 9-9-08' on black background.

A pixelated icon with a pink heart symbol above cyan text reading 'i luv chris 9-9-08' on black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sha…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered heart above text
  • two identical side-by-side text blocks

Dense Caption

Black background. Pink pixelated heart symbol at top center. Below, two identical cyan pixelated text blocks side-by-side: each reads 'i luv', then 'chris', then '9-9-08'. Text uses blocky 7-segment style with rounded corners. All elements are static; no animation observed.

Description

  • A pixelated icon with a pink heart symbol above cyan text reading 'i luv chris 9-9-08' on black background.

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

Named Entities

  • chris

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink heart cyan text 9-9-08
  • i luv chris pixelated
  • heart symbol 9-9-08
  • cyan blocky font black background

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • i luv
  • chris
  • 9-9-08

Visually Supported Entities

  • chris

Wordwall

  • pink heart symbol
  • cyan text
  • black background
  • pixelated
  • blocky font
  • i luv chris
  • 9-9-08

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200809091253091514941546
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
239 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 15:38 UTC
Archive ID
de17028e607f3d3a
SHA-256
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:52 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.105619

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A pixelated icon with a pink heart symbol above cyan text reading 'i luv chris 9-9-08' on black background.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 23:33 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,622 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,145, response 591

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • personalized (mood, 0.80)
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Colors

  • black
  • pink
  • cyan

Composition

  • centered heart above text
  • two identical side-by-side text blocks

Dense Caption

Black background. Pink pixelated heart symbol at top center. Below, two identical cyan pixelated text blocks side-by-side: each reads 'i luv', then 'chris', then '9-9-08'. Text uses blocky 7-segment style with rounded corners. All elements are static; no animation observed.

Description

  • A pixelated icon with a pink heart symbol above cyan text reading 'i luv chris 9-9-08' on black background.

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

Mood

  • affectionate
  • personalized

Named Entities

  • chris

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink heart cyan text 9-9-08
  • i luv chris pixelated
  • heart symbol 9-9-08
  • cyan blocky font black background

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky font
  • 7-segment style

Subjects

  • heart symbol
  • text blocks

Visible Text

  • i luv
  • chris
  • 9-9-08

Visually Supported Entities

  • chris

Wordwall

  • pink heart symbol
  • cyan text
  • black background
  • pixelated
  • blocky font
  • i luv chris
  • 9-9-08
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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
200809091253091514941546
Archive entry
200809091253091514941546.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 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#200809091253091514941546.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200809091253091514941546.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016