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Red pixelated heart symbol above two identical white text blocks reading 'I <3 Brendan' on black background.

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Red pixelated heart symbol above two identical white text blocks reading 'I <3 Brendan' on black background.

Red pixelated heart symbol above two identical white text blocks reading 'I <3 Brendan' on black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sh…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • heart symbol centered above text
  • text blocks side-by-side
  • black background

Dense Caption

Black background with red pixelated heart symbol at top center. Below heart, two identical white text blocks side-by-side: each contains 'I' above '<3' above 'Brendan'. Text uses blocky pixel font. '<3' is stylized heart symbol. All elements are static. Pixelation is consistent across all visible text and symbols.

Description

  • Red pixelated heart symbol above two identical white text blocks reading 'I <3 Brendan' 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 I <3 Brendan
  • pixelated I <3 Brendan
  • black background I <3 Brendan
  • white text I <3 Brendan
  • heart symbol I <3 Brendan
  • blocky font I <3 Brendan
  • identical text blocks I <3 Brendan
  • side-by-side I <3 Brendan

Objects

  • heart symbol

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • I
  • <3
  • Brendan

Wordwall

  • red heart symbol
  • black background
  • white text
  • I <3 Brendan
  • pixelated
  • blocky font
  • identical text blocks
  • side-by-side
  • static
  • text blocks

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081005141237511519465
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
225 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 15:40 UTC
Archive ID
f94431e31e2d7fb5
SHA-256
f94431e31e2d7fb518f64e73bb9cd6bb603d300ddbc33469437d57e213c81204
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:07 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.086153

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Red pixelated heart symbol above two identical white text blocks reading 'I <3 Brendan' on black background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 03:02 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,339 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,144, response 625

Review tags

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  • white
  • black

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  • text blocks side-by-side
  • black background

Dense Caption

Black background with red pixelated heart symbol at top center. Below heart, two identical white text blocks side-by-side: each contains 'I' above '<3' above 'Brendan'. Text uses blocky pixel font. '<3' is stylized heart symbol. All elements are static. Pixelation is consistent across all visible text and symbols.

Description

  • Red pixelated heart symbol above two identical white text blocks reading 'I <3 Brendan' 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
  • simple

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red heart I <3 Brendan
  • pixelated I <3 Brendan
  • black background I <3 Brendan
  • white text I <3 Brendan
  • heart symbol I <3 Brendan
  • blocky font I <3 Brendan
  • identical text blocks I <3 Brendan
  • side-by-side I <3 Brendan

Objects

  • heart symbol
  • text blocks

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • text-based

Subjects

  • heart symbol
  • text blocks

Visible Text

  • I
  • <3
  • Brendan

Wordwall

  • red heart symbol
  • black background
  • white text
  • I <3 Brendan
  • pixelated
  • blocky font
  • identical text blocks
  • side-by-side
  • static
  • text blocks
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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
20081005141237511519465
Archive entry
20081005141237511519465.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 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#20081005141237511519465.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081005141237511519465.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016