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Red pixelated heart symbol above two identical lines of white text reading AUSTIN<3 on a black background.

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Red pixelated heart symbol above two identical lines of white text reading AUSTIN<3 on a black background.

Red pixelated heart symbol above two identical lines of white text reading AUSTIN<3 on a black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shar…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • top-center heart
  • two horizontal text lines below
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Black background with red pixelated heart symbol positioned at top center. Below the heart, two horizontal lines of white blocky text read "AUSTIN<3" in identical font and spacing. The heart consists of 15 distinct red pixels forming an incomplete outline shape. Each line of text contains exactly eight characters: A U S T I N < 3. All elements are static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Red pixelated heart symbol above two identical lines of white text reading AUSTIN<3 on a 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • austin heart icon
  • austin 3 icon
  • red heart austin text
  • pixel art austin <3

Objects

  • heart symbol

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • AUSTIN<3

Visually Supported Entities

  • AUSTIN

Wordwall

  • red pixelated heart
  • black background
  • white blocky text
  • AUSTIN<3
  • two identical lines
  • 15 red pixels
  • eight-character text
  • static image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200905091014541429482457
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 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 15:57 UTC
Archive ID
dfbc8906bbc0b06e
SHA-256
dfbc8906bbc0b06eec0d243315848c2228a49e40931cdc93bbc895a379ee60f8
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
0.085515

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Red pixelated heart symbol above two identical lines of white text reading AUSTIN<3 on a black background.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 09:17 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,305 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,141, response 596

Review tags

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Colors

  • red
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • top-center heart
  • two horizontal text lines below
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Black background with red pixelated heart symbol positioned at top center. Below the heart, two horizontal lines of white blocky text read "AUSTIN<3" in identical font and spacing. The heart consists of 15 distinct red pixels forming an incomplete outline shape. Each line of text contains exactly eight characters: A U S T I N < 3. All elements are static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Red pixelated heart symbol above two identical lines of white text reading AUSTIN<3 on a 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • austin heart icon
  • austin 3 icon
  • red heart austin text
  • pixel art austin <3

Objects

  • heart symbol
  • text line

Style

  • pixel art
  • blocky font
  • monochrome background

Subjects

  • heart symbol
  • text line

Visible Text

  • AUSTIN<3

Visually Supported Entities

  • AUSTIN

Wordwall

  • red pixelated heart
  • black background
  • white blocky text
  • AUSTIN<3
  • two identical lines
  • 15 red pixels
  • eight-character text
  • static image
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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
200905091014541429482457
Archive entry
200905091014541429482457.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 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#200905091014541429482457.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200905091014541429482457.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016