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Black background with white pixelated text reading 'start a love story.' and a cyan heart symbol replacing the letter 'o' in 'love'.

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Black background with white pixelated text reading 'start a love story.' and a cyan heart symbol replacing the letter 'o' in 'love'.

Black background with white pixelated text reading 'start a love story.' and a cyan heart symbol replacing the letter 'o' in 'love'. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Interne…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • two identical side-by-side
  • text arranged vertically

Dense Caption

The image shows two identical side-by-side panels on a black background. Each panel contains white pixelated text arranged vertically: 'start', then 'a', then 'love', then 'story.'. The word 'love' has its central 'o' replaced by a cyan heart symbol made of pixels. Both panels are static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Black background with white pixelated text reading 'start a love story.' and a cyan heart symbol replacing the letter 'o' in 'love'.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200712291533541003770313

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan heart love story text
  • pixelated start a love story
  • heart symbol replace o in love
  • black background white cyan text

Objects

  • heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: two identical panels side-by-side

Visible Text

  • start
  • a
  • love
  • story.

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • 'start'
  • 'a'
  • 'love'
  • 'story.'
  • cyan heart symbol
  • text arranged vertically

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200712291533541003770313
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:07 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
854 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/32/32e034ff79723cd878456b221c3599b5a9a32488740f0f095eeb2505869cd7fc.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:07 UTC
Archive ID
32e034ff79723cd8
SHA-256
32e034ff79723cd878456b221c3599b5a9a32488740f0f095eeb2505869cd7fc
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:36 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.061671

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Black background with white pixelated text reading 'start a love story.' and a cyan heart symbol replacing the letter 'o' in 'love'.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 05:47 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,762 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,148, response 635

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (object, 0.80)
  • monospaced text (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • cyan

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  • two identical side-by-side
  • text arranged vertically

Dense Caption

The image shows two identical side-by-side panels on a black background. Each panel contains white pixelated text arranged vertically: 'start', then 'a', then 'love', then 'story.'. The word 'love' has its central 'o' replaced by a cyan heart symbol made of pixels. Both panels are static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Black background with white pixelated text reading 'start a love story.' and a cyan heart symbol replacing the letter 'o' in 'love'.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200712291533541003770313

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan heart love story text
  • pixelated start a love story
  • heart symbol replace o in love
  • black background white cyan text

Objects

  • heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: two identical panels side-by-side

Style

  • pixelated
  • monospaced text

Visible Text

  • start
  • a
  • love
  • story.

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • 'start'
  • 'a'
  • 'love'
  • 'story.'
  • cyan heart symbol
  • text arranged vertically
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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
200712291533541003770313
Archive entry
200712291533541003770313.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:07 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#200712291533541003770313.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200712291533541003770313.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016