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Red and white pixelated text and symbols on black background with two identical side-by-side layouts.

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Red and white pixelated text and symbols on black background with two identical side-by-side layouts.

Red and white pixelated text and symbols on black background with two identical side-by-side layouts. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bu…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • two identical side-by-side layouts
  • vertical alignment of elements

Dense Caption

Black background displays two identical side-by-side layouts. Each layout has red uppercase 'I' at top center, followed by a white heart-shaped symbol made of pixels (resembling a broken or incomplete heart), then red '<3' text below the heart, and finally red 'Troy M.' text at bottom. All elements are pixelated with low-resolution rendering typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Red and white pixelated text and symbols on black background with two identical side-by-side layouts.

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

Named Entities

  • Troy M.

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red text black background
  • pixelated heart symbol
  • <3 Troy M.
  • two identical layouts

Objects

  • heart symbol

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • I
  • <3
  • Troy M.

Visually Supported Entities

  • Troy M.

Wordwall

  • black background
  • red text
  • white heart symbol
  • <3 text
  • Troy M. text
  • pixelated rendering
  • two identical layouts

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080329183223886500621
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
773 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 15:21 UTC
Archive ID
f6529ef2842f1aad
SHA-256
f6529ef2842f1aad72f87b979cc83ddeed1c0d648c5b4b92f88730202efc02e0
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Assessed
August 5, 2026 at 21:35 UTC
Run
1269
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Preprocessing
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Overall score
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July 23, 2026 at 16:34 UTC
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Red and white pixelated text and symbols on black background with two identical side-by-side layouts.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 21:22 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,604 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,142, response 556

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • digital graphics (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • red
  • white

Composition

  • two identical side-by-side layouts
  • vertical alignment of elements

Dense Caption

Black background displays two identical side-by-side layouts. Each layout has red uppercase 'I' at top center, followed by a white heart-shaped symbol made of pixels (resembling a broken or incomplete heart), then red '<3' text below the heart, and finally red 'Troy M.' text at bottom. All elements are pixelated with low-resolution rendering typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Red and white pixelated text and symbols on black background with two identical side-by-side layouts.

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

Named Entities

  • Troy M.

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red text black background
  • pixelated heart symbol
  • <3 Troy M.
  • two identical layouts

Objects

  • heart symbol

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • digital graphics

Subjects

  • text
  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • I
  • <3
  • Troy M.

Visually Supported Entities

  • Troy M.

Wordwall

  • black background
  • red text
  • white heart symbol
  • <3 text
  • Troy M. text
  • pixelated rendering
  • two identical layouts
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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
20080329183223886500621
Archive entry
20080329183223886500621.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 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#20080329183223886500621.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080329183223886500621.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016