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Blue background with white pixelated text and symbols: two 'I LOV3 YU' lines, a heart at top center, and starbursts at top right and middle.

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Blue background with white pixelated text and symbols: two 'I LOV3 YU' lines, a heart at top center, and starbursts at top right and middle.

Blue background with white pixelated text and symbols: two 'I LOV3 YU' lines, a heart at top center, and starbursts at top right and middle. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered text lines
  • symmetrical layout
  • top-center heart
  • corner starbursts

Dense Caption

Solid blue background. White pixel art elements include a small heart symbol (top center), two horizontal lines of text reading "I LOV3 YU" (centered upper and lower halves), and three starburst patterns: one top-right corner, one bottom-left corner, and one centered below the upper text line. All text uses blocky 8-bit style characters with 'O' replaced by '0'.

Description

  • Blue background with white pixelated text and symbols: two 'I LOV3 YU' lines, a heart at top center, and starbursts at top right and middle.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200710301927161624520539

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue pixel art I LOV3 YU
  • 8-bit heart starbursts text
  • repeated I LOV3 YU blue background
  • white pixelated love message

Objects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • I LOV3 YU

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white pixel art
  • heart symbol
  • starbursts
  • I LOV3 YU text
  • 8-bit style
  • repeated text lines

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200710301927161624520539
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
304 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 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 14:52 UTC
Archive ID
fdc1386ae3c5d1c1
SHA-256
fdc1386ae3c5d1c1ef504023d1c00ad595770b5eb2d874f6ca5f676880f2d84d
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:09 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.134761

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Blue background with white pixelated text and symbols: two 'I LOV3 YU' lines, a heart at top center, and starbursts at top right and middle.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 13:58 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,390 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 675

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (object, 0.80)
  • starbursts (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • white

Composition

  • centered text lines
  • symmetrical layout
  • top-center heart
  • corner starbursts

Dense Caption

Solid blue background. White pixel art elements include a small heart symbol (top center), two horizontal lines of text reading "I LOV3 YU" (centered upper and lower halves), and three starburst patterns: one top-right corner, one bottom-left corner, and one centered below the upper text line. All text uses blocky 8-bit style characters with 'O' replaced by '0'.

Description

  • Blue background with white pixelated text and symbols: two 'I LOV3 YU' lines, a heart at top center, and starbursts at top right and middle.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200710301927161624520539

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue pixel art I LOV3 YU
  • 8-bit heart starbursts text
  • repeated I LOV3 YU blue background
  • white pixelated love message

Objects

  • heart symbol
  • starbursts

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit
  • blocky text

Visible Text

  • I LOV3 YU

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white pixel art
  • heart symbol
  • starbursts
  • I LOV3 YU text
  • 8-bit style
  • repeated text lines
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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
200710301927161624520539
Archive entry
200710301927161624520539.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 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#200710301927161624520539.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200710301927161624520539.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016