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A black background displays two identical pixelated text blocks reading "Love Me For ME<3" with a pink pixelated heart symbol above them.

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A black background displays two identical pixelated text blocks reading "Love Me For ME<3" with a pink pixelated heart symbol above them.

A black background displays two identical pixelated text blocks reading "Love Me For ME<3" with a pink pixelated heart symbol above them. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from In…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered heart
  • side-by-side text blocks
  • three lines per block

Dense Caption

Black background with two identical pixelated text blocks side-by-side. Each block contains three lines: "Love" (white pixelated text), "Me For" (white pixelated text), and "ME<3" (white pixelated text with a less-than sign and number three). Above the text blocks, a pink pixelated heart symbol is centered. The text and heart are rendered in a low-resolution, retro digital style. The image is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • A black background displays two identical pixelated text blocks reading "Love Me For ME<3" with a pink pixelated heart symbol above them.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • love me for me<3
  • pixelated heart text
  • retro digital text
  • black background pixel art
  • pink heart white text
  • two identical text blocks
  • less than three symbol
  • affectionate pixel art

Objects

  • heart symbol

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • Love
  • Me For
  • ME<3

Wordwall

  • black background
  • two identical text blocks
  • pixelated text
  • Love Me For ME<3
  • pink heart symbol
  • retro digital style
  • low-resolution
  • centered heart
  • white text
  • less-than sign
  • number three
  • side-by-side text
  • three lines of text
  • pixelated heart
  • no animation

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200711261542481231183304
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:00 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
852 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/f6/f6cb8b4901496352c77fa0b16bcb92b5bae06896630bf26a8babb0902963e3b9.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:00 UTC
Archive ID
f6cb8b4901496352
SHA-256
f6cb8b4901496352c77fa0b16bcb92b5bae06896630bf26a8babb0902963e3b9
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:05 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.065796

OpenAI category scores

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

A black background displays two identical pixelated text blocks reading "Love Me For ME<3" with a pink pixelated heart symbol above them.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 11:40 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,554 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,145, response 659

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text blocks (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • pink

Composition

  • centered heart
  • side-by-side text blocks
  • three lines per block

Dense Caption

Black background with two identical pixelated text blocks side-by-side. Each block contains three lines: "Love" (white pixelated text), "Me For" (white pixelated text), and "ME<3" (white pixelated text with a less-than sign and number three). Above the text blocks, a pink pixelated heart symbol is centered. The text and heart are rendered in a low-resolution, retro digital style. The image is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • A black background displays two identical pixelated text blocks reading "Love Me For ME<3" with a pink pixelated heart symbol above them.

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

Mood

  • affectionate
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • love me for me<3
  • pixelated heart text
  • retro digital text
  • black background pixel art
  • pink heart white text
  • two identical text blocks
  • less than three symbol
  • affectionate pixel art

Objects

  • heart symbol
  • text blocks

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • heart symbol
  • text blocks

Visible Text

  • Love
  • Me For
  • ME<3

Wordwall

  • black background
  • two identical text blocks
  • pixelated text
  • Love Me For ME<3
  • pink heart symbol
  • retro digital style
  • low-resolution
  • centered heart
  • white text
  • less-than sign
  • number three
  • side-by-side text
  • three lines of text
  • pixelated heart
  • no animation
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 21:30 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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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
200711261542481231183304
Archive entry
200711261542481231183304.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:00 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#200711261542481231183304.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200711261542481231183304.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016