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Pixelated icon with 'bad romance' text and red heart symbols on black background, showing animation of heart count changes across frames.

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Pixelated icon with 'bad romance' text and red heart symbols on black background, showing animation of heart count changes across frames.

Pixelated icon with 'bad romance' text and red heart symbols on black background, showing animation of heart count changes across frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from In…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • heart count changes across frames

Animation Summary

  • Heart count changes across frames; no other motion observed

Composition

  • three horizontal
  • heart symbols aligned vertically with text

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text 'bad romance' repeated across three horizontal rows. Red heart symbols appear in varying quantities: single heart on left, two hearts in middle, three hearts on right in top row; four hearts on left, five hearts in middle, six hearts on right in middle row; three hearts on left, two hearts in middle, no hearts on right in bottom row. Gray rectangular shape occupies bottom-right corner. Text and heart positions remain fixed across all visible frames. Animation consists of heart count changes only; no other motion observed.

Description

  • Pixelated icon with 'bad romance' text and red heart symbols on black background, showing animation of heart count changes across frames.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • bad romance heart animation
  • pixelated text heart count
  • black background red hearts
  • fixed text heart animation
  • bad romance animation hearts
  • text-based heart count change
  • red hearts black background
  • heart count animation text

Objects

  • red heart symbols

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: heart symbols aligned vertically with text rows
  • quarantined composition: three horizontal rows

Visible Text

  • bad romance

Wordwall

  • bad romance text
  • red heart symbols
  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • gray rectangle
  • heart count changes
  • fixed text positions
  • no other motion

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20091119182416156909509
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
933 bytes
Motion
Animated (8 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/40/406e5f30e8d8230cd46a21e348d6d6f4a57cdc1333d48cab49a20bd8cf47b0e5.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 UTC
Archive ID
406e5f30e8d8230c
SHA-256
406e5f30e8d8230cd46a21e348d6d6f4a57cdc1333d48cab49a20bd8cf47b0e5
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:51 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.077982

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated icon with 'bad romance' text and red heart symbols on black background, showing animation of heart count changes across frames.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 20:26 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,088 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 600

Review tags

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  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • gray rectangle (object, 0.80)
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  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
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  • text based (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • heart count changes across frames

Animation Summary

  • Heart count changes across frames; no other motion observed

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • red
  • gray

Composition

  • three horizontal
  • heart symbols aligned vertically with text

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text 'bad romance' repeated across three horizontal rows. Red heart symbols appear in varying quantities: single heart on left, two hearts in middle, three hearts on right in top row; four hearts on left, five hearts in middle, six hearts on right in middle row; three hearts on left, two hearts in middle, no hearts on right in bottom row. Gray rectangular shape occupies bottom-right corner. Text and heart positions remain fixed across all visible frames. Animation consists of heart count changes only; no other motion observed.

Description

  • Pixelated icon with 'bad romance' text and red heart symbols on black background, showing animation of heart count changes across frames.

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

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  • pixelated text heart count
  • black background red hearts
  • fixed text heart animation
  • bad romance animation hearts
  • text-based heart count change
  • red hearts black background
  • heart count animation text

Objects

  • red heart symbols
  • gray rectangle

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: heart symbols aligned vertically with text rows
  • quarantined composition: three horizontal rows

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • static background

Visible Text

  • bad romance

Wordwall

  • bad romance text
  • red heart symbols
  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • gray rectangle
  • heart count changes
  • fixed text positions
  • no other motion
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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
20091119182416156909509
Archive entry
20091119182416156909509.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 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#20091119182416156909509.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20091119182416156909509.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016