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Pixelated blue background with white starburst border and black text reading "I heart U" in two identical vertical arrangements.

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Pixelated blue background with white starburst border and black text reading "I heart U" in two identical vertical arrangements.

Pixelated blue background with white starburst border and black text reading "I heart U" in two identical vertical arrangements. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Ar…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • vertical symmetry
  • central starburst
  • text arranged left and right of center

Dense Caption

The image features a bright cyan background. A vertical column of white pixelated asterisk-like symbols runs down the center, flanked by similar columns on both sides. Two identical sets of black pixelated text appear: "I" above "heart" above "U", with each set positioned to the left and right of the central starburst column. The text uses a blocky, retro digital font typical of early internet graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated blue background with white starburst border and black text reading "I heart U" in two identical vertical arrangements.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071214185026492673183

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background pixel art "I heart U" starburst
  • "I heart U" cyan blue text asterisk border
  • pixelated "I heart U" two identical arrangements

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: central starburst column

Visible Text

  • I
  • heart
  • U

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • white asterisk border
  • black pixelated text
  • "I heart U"
  • two identical text arrangements

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071214185026492673183
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:04 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
455 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/e8/e862af6fa50e531d4b3c3eaee44fde16664c73d1b207b751aba9f6430a34efbf.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:04 UTC
Archive ID
e862af6fa50e531d
SHA-256
e862af6fa50e531d4b3c3eaee44fde16664c73d1b207b751aba9f6430a34efbf
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:58 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.077534

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated blue background with white starburst border and black text reading "I heart U" in two identical vertical arrangements.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 01:59 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,137 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 637

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • vertical symmetry
  • central starburst
  • text arranged left and right of center

Dense Caption

The image features a bright cyan background. A vertical column of white pixelated asterisk-like symbols runs down the center, flanked by similar columns on both sides. Two identical sets of black pixelated text appear: "I" above "heart" above "U", with each set positioned to the left and right of the central starburst column. The text uses a blocky, retro digital font typical of early internet graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated blue background with white starburst border and black text reading "I heart U" in two identical vertical arrangements.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071214185026492673183

Mood

  • playful
  • affectionate

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background pixel art "I heart U" starburst
  • "I heart U" cyan blue text asterisk border
  • pixelated "I heart U" two identical arrangements

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: central starburst column

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital
  • blocky font

Visible Text

  • I
  • heart
  • U

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • white asterisk border
  • black pixelated text
  • "I heart U"
  • two identical text arrangements
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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
20071214185026492673183
Archive entry
20071214185026492673183.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:04 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#20071214185026492673183.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071214185026492673183.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016