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Four red heart shapes on a bright pink background, each containing white text "ILY" in pixelated font.

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Four red heart shapes on a bright pink background, each containing white text "ILY" in pixelated font.

Four red heart shapes on a bright pink background, each containing white text "ILY" in pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared B…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four hearts in
  • centered text within each heart

Dense Caption

Bright pink solid background. Four identical red hearts arranged in two rows of two. Each heart is filled with solid red color and has rounded edges typical of early digital graphics. Centered within each heart is the text "ILY" rendered in a white, blocky, pixelated typeface. The letters are uppercase: I, L, Y. All four hearts appear identical; no visible differences exist between them across any observations.

Description

  • Four red heart shapes on a bright pink background, each containing white text "ILY" in pixelated font.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200803121247382049913686

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red hearts pink background ILY
  • ILY text pixel art
  • four hearts
  • affectionate pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four hearts in 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: four hearts 2x2 grid

Visible Text

  • ILY

Wordwall

  • red hearts
  • pink background
  • white text
  • ILY
  • pixelated font
  • four hearts
  • solid colors

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200803121247382049913686
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:18 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.3 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/df/dfa923519c442fffd39ade324e38bb59eb386c56f6760536dce5278a107fe716.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:18 UTC
Archive ID
dfa923519c442fff
SHA-256
dfa923519c442fffd39ade324e38bb59eb386c56f6760536dce5278a107fe716
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:53 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.133026

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Four red heart shapes on a bright pink background, each containing white text "ILY" in pixelated font.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 06:29 UTC
Run
57
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,967 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 619

Review tags

  • bright pink (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • hearts (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • bright pink
  • red
  • white

Composition

  • four hearts in
  • centered text within each heart

Dense Caption

Bright pink solid background. Four identical red hearts arranged in two rows of two. Each heart is filled with solid red color and has rounded edges typical of early digital graphics. Centered within each heart is the text "ILY" rendered in a white, blocky, pixelated typeface. The letters are uppercase: I, L, Y. All four hearts appear identical; no visible differences exist between them across any observations.

Description

  • Four red heart shapes on a bright pink background, each containing white text "ILY" in pixelated font.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200803121247382049913686

Mood

  • affectionate
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red hearts pink background ILY
  • ILY text pixel art
  • four hearts
  • affectionate pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four hearts in 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: four hearts 2x2 grid

Style

  • pixel art
  • blocky
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • hearts

Visible Text

  • ILY

Wordwall

  • red hearts
  • pink background
  • white text
  • ILY
  • pixelated font
  • four hearts
  • solid colors
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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
200803121247382049913686
Archive entry
200803121247382049913686.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:18 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#200803121247382049913686.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200803121247382049913686.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016