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Pixelated cyan text on bright pink background with a pink heart symbol above the word 'loved' and a cyan heart symbol below the phrase 'the start'.

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Pixelated cyan text on bright pink background with a pink heart symbol above the word 'loved' and a cyan heart symbol below the phrase 'the start'.

Pixelated cyan text on bright pink background with a pink heart symbol above the word 'loved' and a cyan heart symbol below the phrase 'the start'. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy ic…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static

Animation Summary

  • Static image with no visible motion changes.

Composition

  • text centered
  • heart symbols positioned above and below text

Dense Caption

Bright pink background with cyan pixelated text reading 'I loved you since the start' in three lines. A pink heart symbol appears above the word 'loved' in the first line. A cyan heart symbol appears below the phrase 'the start' in the third line. The text and symbols are rendered in a low-resolution, retro digital style.

Description

Pixelated cyan text on bright pink background with a pink heart symbol above the word 'loved' and a cyan heart symbol below the phrase 'the start'.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan text pink background
  • heart symbol text
  • I loved you since the start
  • pixelated retro digital
  • low-resolution heart symbols
  • affectionate nostalgic mood
  • text centered heart above below
  • retro digital style heart symbols

Objects

  • heart symbols

Subjects

  • heart symbols

Visible Text

  • I loved
  • you since
  • the start
  • <3

Wordwall

  • cyan text
  • pink background
  • heart symbol
  • I loved you since the start
  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • low-resolution
  • three lines of text
  • heart above loved
  • heart below start

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200906201911171307299921
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
280 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/f7/f7554398ab15d49f88383341b48174809972aaf72b88aca88d837107df3d12ee.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 UTC
Archive ID
f7554398ab15d49f
SHA-256
f7554398ab15d49f88383341b48174809972aaf72b88aca88d837107df3d12ee
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:06 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.098436

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated cyan text on bright pink background with a pink heart symbol above the word 'loved' and a cyan heart symbol below the phrase 'the start'.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 12:47 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,885 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,146, response 689

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • static (other, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbols (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static

Animation Summary

  • Static image with no visible motion changes.

Colors

  • pink
  • cyan

Composition

  • text centered
  • heart symbols positioned above and below text

Dense Caption

Bright pink background with cyan pixelated text reading 'I loved you since the start' in three lines. A pink heart symbol appears above the word 'loved' in the first line. A cyan heart symbol appears below the phrase 'the start' in the third line. The text and symbols are rendered in a low-resolution, retro digital style.

Description

Pixelated cyan text on bright pink background with a pink heart symbol above the word 'loved' and a cyan heart symbol below the phrase 'the start'.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Mood

  • affectionate
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan text pink background
  • heart symbol text
  • I loved you since the start
  • pixelated retro digital
  • low-resolution heart symbols
  • affectionate nostalgic mood
  • text centered heart above below
  • retro digital style heart symbols

Objects

  • heart symbols

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • text
  • heart symbols

Visible Text

  • I loved
  • you since
  • the start
  • <3

Wordwall

  • cyan text
  • pink background
  • heart symbol
  • I loved you since the start
  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • low-resolution
  • three lines of text
  • heart above loved
  • heart below start
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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
200906201911171307299921
Archive entry
200906201911171307299921.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 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#200906201911171307299921.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200906201911171307299921.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016