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Animated icon shows hands forming a heart shape with text changing from 'The new way' to 'To hold hands' and adding a ring on the lower frame.

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Animated icon shows hands forming a heart shape with text changing from 'The new way' to 'To hold hands' and adding a ring on the lower frame.

Animated icon shows hands forming a heart shape with text changing from 'The new way' to 'To hold hands' and adding a ring on the lower frame. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon fr…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • text changes from 'The new way' to 'To hold hands'
  • ring appears in bottom-left frame

Animation Summary

  • Text changes from 'The new way' to 'To hold hands' while a diamond ring icon appears in the heart shape.

Composition

  • hands framing heart
  • text below heart
  • clouds inside heart

Dense Caption

Four frames show black hand silhouettes against purple sky background. First two frames display white heart-shaped cutout with light clouds inside; bottom-left frame adds small white diamond ring icon at center of heart. Text below reads 'The new way' in first frame, changes to 'To hold hands' in second frame. All text is dark gray on light beige strip. Hand silhouettes remain static while text and one object change across frames.

Description

Animated icon shows hands forming a heart shape with text changing from 'The new way' to 'To hold hands' and adding a ring on the lower frame.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080203062819204234573
  • franksicons
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hands forming heart
  • diamond ring text change
  • purple sky heart animation
  • romantic buddy icon

Subjects

  • heart shape
  • ring

Visible Text

  • The new way
  • To hold hands

Visually Supported Entities

  • diamond ring icon

Wordwall

  • heart shape
  • hands forming heart
  • purple sky background
  • white clouds inside heart
  • diamond ring icon
  • text 'The new way'
  • text 'To hold hands'
  • dark gray text on beige strip

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080203062819204234573
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:12 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.5 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/63/63097cf83f35eea7aea940cbac6aa9fa55ac15ad6298d8fdc5077617f4d72f9b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:12 UTC
Archive ID
63097cf83f35eea7
SHA-256
63097cf83f35eea7aea940cbac6aa9fa55ac15ad6298d8fdc5077617f4d72f9b
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:31 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.078397

OpenAI category scores

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Animated icon shows hands forming a heart shape with text changing from 'The new way' to 'To hold hands' and adding a ring on the lower frame.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 14:46 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,083 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,104, response 721

Review tags

  • adding ring (action, 0.80)
  • changing text (action, 0.80)
  • forming heart (action, 0.80)
  • romantic (mood, 0.80)
  • sentimental (mood, 0.80)
  • diamond ring icon (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)
  • ring (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • forming heart
  • changing text
  • adding ring

Animation

  • text changes from 'The new way' to 'To hold hands'
  • ring appears in bottom-left frame

Animation Summary

  • Text changes from 'The new way' to 'To hold hands' while a diamond ring icon appears in the heart shape.

Colors

  • purple
  • black
  • white
  • beige
  • dark gray

Composition

  • hands framing heart
  • text below heart
  • clouds inside heart

Dense Caption

Four frames show black hand silhouettes against purple sky background. First two frames display white heart-shaped cutout with light clouds inside; bottom-left frame adds small white diamond ring icon at center of heart. Text below reads 'The new way' in first frame, changes to 'To hold hands' in second frame. All text is dark gray on light beige strip. Hand silhouettes remain static while text and one object change across frames.

Description

Animated icon shows hands forming a heart shape with text changing from 'The new way' to 'To hold hands' and adding a ring on the lower frame.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080203062819204234573
  • franksicons
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Mood

  • romantic
  • sentimental

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hands forming heart
  • diamond ring text change
  • purple sky heart animation
  • romantic buddy icon

Objects

  • diamond ring icon

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • animated

Subjects

  • hands
  • heart shape
  • ring

Visible Text

  • The new way
  • To hold hands

Visually Supported Entities

  • diamond ring icon

Wordwall

  • heart shape
  • hands forming heart
  • purple sky background
  • white clouds inside heart
  • diamond ring icon
  • text 'The new way'
  • text 'To hold hands'
  • dark gray text on beige strip
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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
20080203062819204234573
Archive entry
20080203062819204234573.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:12 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

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