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Pixelated text 'eric<3' overlaid on a black background with colorful heart-shaped line art in pink, blue, green, and yellow.

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Pixelated text 'eric<3' overlaid on a black background with colorful heart-shaped line art in pink, blue, green, and yellow.

Pixelated text 'eric<3' overlaid on a black background with colorful heart-shaped line art in pink, blue, green, and yellow. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archiv…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • top-left text overlay
  • heart shapes fill background
  • no central focal point

Dense Caption

Black background filled with overlapping heart shapes drawn as continuous lines; hearts rendered in bright pink, cyan, lime green, and golden-yellow. White pixelated text 'eric<3' positioned top-left corner. Hearts vary in size and orientation, some fully formed, others partially visible. Line art style uses thin strokes with slight jagged edges typical of low-resolution digital graphics. No animation observed.

Description

  • Pixelated text 'eric<3' overlaid on a black background with colorful heart-shaped line art in pink, blue, green, and yellow.

Identity Hypotheses

  • eric

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

Named Entities

  • eric

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • eric<3 hearts
  • pixelated text heart art
  • black background colorful hearts
  • eric love icon

Visible Text

  • eric<3

Visually Supported Entities

  • eric

Wordwall

  • text eric<3
  • black background
  • pink hearts
  • cyan hearts
  • green hearts
  • yellow hearts
  • pixelated text
  • heart line art

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200805151339131734144151
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:26 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
3.4 KB
Motion
Animated (3 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 15:26 UTC
Archive ID
e784fc735bdfffbf
SHA-256
e784fc735bdfffbfb3182465535a8a35cf4ce3a4c78189049a7dca7d157bdff5
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:57 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.109194

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text 'eric<3' overlaid on a black background with colorful heart-shaped line art in pink, blue, green, and yellow.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 15:23 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,192 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 595

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • line drawing (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution digital graphics (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • hearts (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • pink
  • cyan
  • green
  • yellow

Composition

  • top-left text overlay
  • heart shapes fill background
  • no central focal point

Dense Caption

Black background filled with overlapping heart shapes drawn as continuous lines; hearts rendered in bright pink, cyan, lime green, and golden-yellow. White pixelated text 'eric<3' positioned top-left corner. Hearts vary in size and orientation, some fully formed, others partially visible. Line art style uses thin strokes with slight jagged edges typical of low-resolution digital graphics. No animation observed.

Description

  • Pixelated text 'eric<3' overlaid on a black background with colorful heart-shaped line art in pink, blue, green, and yellow.

Identity Hypotheses

  • eric

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

  • playful
  • affectionate

Named Entities

  • eric

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • eric<3 hearts
  • pixelated text heart art
  • black background colorful hearts
  • eric love icon

Objects

  • hearts
  • text

Style

  • pixel art
  • line drawing
  • low-resolution digital graphics

Subjects

  • hearts
  • text

Visible Text

  • eric<3

Visually Supported Entities

  • eric

Wordwall

  • text eric<3
  • black background
  • pink hearts
  • cyan hearts
  • green hearts
  • yellow hearts
  • pixelated text
  • heart line art
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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
200805151339131734144151
Archive entry
200805151339131734144151.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:26 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#200805151339131734144151.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200805151339131734144151.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016