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Animated icon shows hands forming a heart shape with changing symbols inside: vertical bar, arrow and number, horizontal bar.

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Animated icon shows hands forming a heart shape with changing symbols inside: vertical bar, arrow and number, horizontal bar.

Animated icon shows hands forming a heart shape with changing symbols inside: vertical bar, arrow and number, horizontal bar. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archi…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • symbols change between frames

Animation Summary

  • The heart shape remains static while symbols inside change: vertical bar → arrow and number 3 → horizontal bar.

Composition

  • centered heart
  • sunset background

Dense Caption

Four sequential frames show hands forming a heart shape against a sunset background. First frame: vertical white bar inside heart. Second frame: white arrow pointing left and number 3 inside heart. Third frame: white horizontal bar inside heart. Fourth frame: empty heart shape. All frames share the same heart shape and background. The heart shape is formed by dark hands. Background is a gradient of brown and orange. The heart shape is centered in the frame. The symbols inside the heart change between frames.

Description

  • Animated icon shows hands forming a heart shape with changing symbols inside: vertical bar, arrow and number, horizontal bar.

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

  • heart shape hands sunset
  • changing symbols vertical bar arrow 3
  • sunset background heart animation
  • vertical bar arrow 3 horizontal bar

Objects

  • arrow

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: four frames

Subjects

  • heart shape

Visible Text

  • |
  • <3
  • -

Wordwall

  • heart shape
  • hands forming heart
  • sunset background
  • vertical bar
  • arrow and number 3
  • horizontal bar
  • changing symbols
  • brown and orange gradient
  • centered heart

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090123211702680365856
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:50 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
4.1 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/11/1127dd3bab13b5da955be1ead64fbffd0e5468cf0e394ea38573a84bc8f31097.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:50 UTC
Archive ID
1127dd3bab13b5da
SHA-256
1127dd3bab13b5da955be1ead64fbffd0e5468cf0e394ea38573a84bc8f31097
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:01 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.091790

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Animated icon shows hands forming a heart shape with changing symbols inside: vertical bar, arrow and number, horizontal bar.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 19:42 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,440 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,104, response 669

Review tags

  • changing symbols (action, 0.80)
  • forming heart (action, 0.80)
  • warm (mood, 0.80)
  • arrow (object, 0.80)
  • horizontal bar (object, 0.80)
  • number 3 (object, 0.80)
  • vertical bar (object, 0.80)
  • animated (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • hands (subject, 0.80)
  • heart shape (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • forming heart
  • changing symbols

Animation

  • symbols change between frames

Animation Summary

  • The heart shape remains static while symbols inside change: vertical bar → arrow and number 3 → horizontal bar.

Colors

  • brown
  • orange
  • white
  • dark

Composition

  • centered heart
  • sunset background

Dense Caption

Four sequential frames show hands forming a heart shape against a sunset background. First frame: vertical white bar inside heart. Second frame: white arrow pointing left and number 3 inside heart. Third frame: white horizontal bar inside heart. Fourth frame: empty heart shape. All frames share the same heart shape and background. The heart shape is formed by dark hands. Background is a gradient of brown and orange. The heart shape is centered in the frame. The symbols inside the heart change between frames.

Description

  • Animated icon shows hands forming a heart shape with changing symbols inside: vertical bar, arrow and number, horizontal bar.

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

  • warm
  • affectionate

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • heart shape hands sunset
  • changing symbols vertical bar arrow 3
  • sunset background heart animation
  • vertical bar arrow 3 horizontal bar

Objects

  • vertical bar
  • arrow
  • number 3
  • horizontal bar

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: four frames

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • animated

Subjects

  • hands
  • heart shape

Visible Text

  • |
  • <3
  • -

Wordwall

  • heart shape
  • hands forming heart
  • sunset background
  • vertical bar
  • arrow and number 3
  • horizontal bar
  • changing symbols
  • brown and orange gradient
  • centered heart
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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
20090123211702680365856
Archive entry
20090123211702680365856.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:50 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#20090123211702680365856.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090123211702680365856.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016