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Red pixelated heart symbol above blue pixelated text reading "I LOVE HUGS" on black background.

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Red pixelated heart symbol above blue pixelated text reading "I LOVE HUGS" on black background.

Red pixelated heart symbol above blue pixelated text reading "I LOVE HUGS" on black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Ic…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • heart symbol above text
  • text centered
  • solid black background

Dense Caption

Red pixelated heart symbol positioned at top center. Below it, blue pixelated text reads "I LOVE HUGS" in a single line. The text is horizontally centered. Background is solid black. The heart symbol consists of red pixels forming a stylized heart shape. The text uses a blocky, retro digital font. The entire composition is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Red pixelated heart symbol above blue pixelated text reading "I LOVE HUGS" 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red heart blue text black background
  • I LOVE HUGS pixelated
  • heart symbol text black background
  • blue pixelated I LOVE HUGS

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • I LOVE HUGS

Wordwall

  • red heart symbol
  • blue pixelated text
  • black background
  • I LOVE HUGS text
  • pixelated heart
  • centered text
  • retro digital font
  • solid black background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708242246361809212276
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
224 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/f3/f35f76470899afc498b734f438bd9910fdd9924192663f2ff4ea54de48754198.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC
Archive ID
f35f76470899afc4
SHA-256
f35f76470899afc498b734f438bd9910fdd9924192663f2ff4ea54de48754198
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:04 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.119434

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Red pixelated heart symbol above blue pixelated text reading "I LOVE HUGS" on black background.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 04:59 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,880 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,145, response 579

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  • red (color, 0.80)
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  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
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  • text (subject, 0.80)

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  • red
  • blue
  • black

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  • heart symbol above text
  • text centered
  • solid black background

Dense Caption

Red pixelated heart symbol positioned at top center. Below it, blue pixelated text reads "I LOVE HUGS" in a single line. The text is horizontally centered. Background is solid black. The heart symbol consists of red pixels forming a stylized heart shape. The text uses a blocky, retro digital font. The entire composition is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Red pixelated heart symbol above blue pixelated text reading "I LOVE HUGS" 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • affectionate
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red heart blue text black background
  • I LOVE HUGS pixelated
  • heart symbol text black background
  • blue pixelated I LOVE HUGS

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • heart symbol
  • text

Visible Text

  • I LOVE HUGS

Wordwall

  • red heart symbol
  • blue pixelated text
  • black background
  • I LOVE HUGS text
  • pixelated heart
  • centered text
  • retro digital font
  • solid black background
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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
200708242246361809212276
Archive entry
200708242246361809212276.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 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#200708242246361809212276.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708242246361809212276.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016