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Red pixelated text and symbols on black background with animated heart sequence.

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Red pixelated text and symbols on black background with animated heart sequence.

Red pixelated text and symbols on black background with animated heart sequence. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2000…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • hearts cycle through dark red and bright red states

Animation Summary

  • Hearts alternate between dark red and bright red states in sequence.

Composition

  • text above hearts
  • centered

Dense Caption

Red pixelated text 'I <3 Ricky' appears above four red heart symbols on a black background. The hearts animate sequentially: first heart is dark red, second is bright red, third is dark red, fourth is bright red. The text remains static throughout the animation. The animation cycles through the heart sequence.

Description

  • Red pixelated text and symbols on black background with animated heart sequence.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red pixelated I <3 Ricky hearts
  • animated hearts black background
  • I <3 Ricky red hearts animation
  • red hearts animation black background

Preprocessing Notes

  • hearts alternate between dark red and bright red states

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata about collection era and topic coverage but is not authoritative for visual content

Visible Text

  • I
  • <3
  • Ricky

Wordwall

  • red pixelated text
  • black background
  • I <3 Ricky
  • four hearts
  • heart animation
  • dark red hearts
  • bright red hearts

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090112162227207802909
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
827 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/fa/fae84ab72d4845073930fc3fa3d13ea703d32ec886b63639025e0e02edd26338.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 UTC
Archive ID
fae84ab72d484507
SHA-256
fae84ab72d4845073930fc3fa3d13ea703d32ec886b63639025e0e02edd26338
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 16, 2026 at 07:09 UTC
Run
1298
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001152

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:12 UTC
Run
107
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Overall label
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Overall score
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Red pixelated text and symbols on black background with animated heart sequence.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 17:56 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,268 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,142, response 597

Review tags

  • hearts animate (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • animated (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • hearts (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • hearts animate

Animation

  • hearts cycle through dark red and bright red states

Animation Summary

  • Hearts alternate between dark red and bright red states in sequence.

Colors

  • red
  • black

Composition

  • text above hearts
  • centered

Dense Caption

Red pixelated text 'I <3 Ricky' appears above four red heart symbols on a black background. The hearts animate sequentially: first heart is dark red, second is bright red, third is dark red, fourth is bright red. The text remains static throughout the animation. The animation cycles through the heart sequence.

Description

  • Red pixelated text and symbols on black background with animated heart sequence.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • affectionate

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red pixelated I <3 Ricky hearts
  • animated hearts black background
  • I <3 Ricky red hearts animation
  • red hearts animation black background

Objects

  • hearts

Preprocessing Notes

  • hearts alternate between dark red and bright red states

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata about collection era and topic coverage but is not authoritative for visual content

Style

  • pixelated
  • animated

Subjects

  • text
  • hearts

Visible Text

  • I
  • <3
  • Ricky

Wordwall

  • red pixelated text
  • black background
  • I <3 Ricky
  • four hearts
  • heart animation
  • dark red hearts
  • bright red hearts
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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
20090112162227207802909
Archive entry
20090112162227207802909.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 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#20090112162227207802909.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090112162227207802909.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016