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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

  • heart color change between frames

Animation Summary

  • Heart color changes between frames.

Composition

  • top to bottom: <3, Cheese, <3, hearts

Dense Caption

Two identical static frames display red pixelated '<3' symbols above 'Cheese' text, followed by another '<3', then a row of five hearts. The left frame shows four red hearts and one dark red heart; the right frame shows three red hearts and two dark red hearts. Animation changes only the central heart's color from red to dark red between frames.

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 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

  • red pixelated cheese hearts
  • <3 symbol animation
  • heart color change animation
  • pixelated text animation

Visible Text

  • <3
  • Cheese

Visually Supported Entities

  • <3 symbols
  • Cheese text

Wordwall

  • red pixelated text
  • <3 symbol
  • Cheese text
  • heart symbols
  • black background
  • four red hearts
  • one dark red heart
  • three red hearts
  • two dark red hearts

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080826170138659498201
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
251 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/fe/fece2cdc3b0ebf8428d48713c753e5c534946fcb04893f8d590a297118a23198.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 UTC
Archive ID
fece2cdc3b0ebf84
SHA-256
fece2cdc3b0ebf8428d48713c753e5c534946fcb04893f8d590a297118a23198
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
0.132271

OpenAI category scores

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

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 21:44 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,464 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,144, response 578

Review tags

  • heart color change (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • dark red (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • symbols (object, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • 3 symbols (subject, 0.80)
  • hearts (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • heart color change

Animation

  • heart color change between frames

Animation Summary

  • Heart color changes between frames.

Colors

  • red
  • dark red
  • black

Composition

  • top to bottom: <3, Cheese, <3, hearts

Dense Caption

Two identical static frames display red pixelated '<3' symbols above 'Cheese' text, followed by another '<3', then a row of five hearts. The left frame shows four red hearts and one dark red heart; the right frame shows three red hearts and two dark red hearts. Animation changes only the central heart's color from red to dark red between frames.

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 collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • playful
  • affectionate

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red pixelated cheese hearts
  • <3 symbol animation
  • heart color change animation
  • pixelated text animation

Objects

  • text
  • symbols

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • hearts
  • <3 symbols

Visible Text

  • <3
  • Cheese

Visually Supported Entities

  • <3 symbols
  • Cheese text

Wordwall

  • red pixelated text
  • <3 symbol
  • Cheese text
  • heart symbols
  • black background
  • four red hearts
  • one dark red heart
  • three red hearts
  • two dark 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
20080826170138659498201
Archive entry
20080826170138659498201.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 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#20080826170138659498201.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080826170138659498201.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016