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Red pixelated heart symbol above pink text reading 'love is always flashing' on black background.

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Red pixelated heart symbol above pink text reading 'love is always flashing' on black background.

Red pixelated heart symbol above pink text reading 'love is always flashing' on black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered heart above text
  • two identical text blocks side-by-side

Dense Caption

Black background with red pixelated heart symbol at top center. Below, two identical sets of pink pixelated text: first line reads 'love is', second line reads 'always', third line reads 'FLASHING'. Text and heart are static; no visible animation changes across observations. All elements use blocky 8-bit style rendering.

Description

  • Red pixelated heart symbol above pink text reading 'love is always flashing' on black background.

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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080413155625314540367

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red heart pink text black background
  • love is always flashing pixelated
  • blocky 8-bit style text
  • two identical text blocks side-by-side

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • love is
  • always
  • FLASHING

Wordwall

  • red heart symbol
  • black background
  • pink pixelated text
  • love is always flashing
  • blocky 8-bit style

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080413155625314540367
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:23 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
267 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 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 15:23 UTC
Archive ID
5265f85cf450de80
SHA-256
5265f85cf450de80582650c4bd3a5a84916f585683fb7b24c3939a30b859d483
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Assessed
August 5, 2026 at 03:38 UTC
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Red pixelated heart symbol above pink text reading 'love is always flashing' on black background.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 03:35 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,274 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,147, response 606

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky 8 bit (style, 0.80)
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  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • pink
  • black

Composition

  • centered heart above text
  • two identical text blocks side-by-side

Dense Caption

Black background with red pixelated heart symbol at top center. Below, two identical sets of pink pixelated text: first line reads 'love is', second line reads 'always', third line reads 'FLASHING'. Text and heart are static; no visible animation changes across observations. All elements use blocky 8-bit style rendering.

Description

  • Red pixelated heart symbol above pink text reading 'love is always flashing' on black background.

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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080413155625314540367

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • love is always flashing pixelated
  • blocky 8-bit style text
  • two identical text blocks side-by-side

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky 8-bit

Subjects

  • heart symbol
  • text

Visible Text

  • love is
  • always
  • FLASHING

Wordwall

  • red heart symbol
  • black background
  • pink pixelated text
  • love is always flashing
  • blocky 8-bit style
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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
20080413155625314540367
Archive entry
20080413155625314540367.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:23 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#20080413155625314540367.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080413155625314540367.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016