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Red pixelated text reads 'thanks for the memories.' with '<3' and a heart symbol on black background, showing animation changes in heart symbols.

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Red pixelated text reads 'thanks for the memories.' with '<3' and a heart symbol on black background, showing animation changes in heart symbols.

Red pixelated text reads 'thanks for the memories.' with '<3' and a heart symbol on black background, showing animation changes in heart symbols. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • heart count increases from 1 to 4 across frames

Animation Summary

  • Heart count increases from one white heart to four gray hearts across frames.

Composition

  • centered text
  • bottom-right hearts

Dense Caption

Black background displays red pixelated text: 'thanks for the memories.' followed by '<3'. First frame shows one white heart; second frame shows two gray hearts; third frame shows three gray hearts; fourth frame shows four gray hearts. All frames have identical text and layout with only heart count changing.

Description

Red pixelated text reads 'thanks for the memories.' with '<3' and a heart symbol on black background, showing animation changes in heart symbols.

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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200710021235432138714007

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • thanks for the memories
  • pixelated text animation
  • heart count increase
  • red black background

Visible Text

  • thanks for the memories.
  • <3

Wordwall

  • red pixelated text
  • 'thanks for the memories.'
  • <3 symbol
  • black background
  • heart symbols
  • animation: heart count increases

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200710021235432138714007
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:48 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.1 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/6a/6a471a20dd4cc3e5f10984961e973cdef39c571c02c17670a4f9347dce7283b5.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:48 UTC
Archive ID
6a471a20dd4cc3e5
SHA-256
6a471a20dd4cc3e5f10984961e973cdef39c571c02c17670a4f9347dce7283b5
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:48 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.080158

OpenAI category scores

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Red pixelated text reads 'thanks for the memories.' with '<3' and a heart symbol on black background, showing animation changes in heart symbols.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 06:41 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,447 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 631

Review tags

  • heart count changes (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • sentimental (mood, 0.80)
  • heart count increases from 1 to 4 across frames (other, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • hearts (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • heart count changes

Animation

  • heart count increases from 1 to 4 across frames

Animation Summary

  • Heart count increases from one white heart to four gray hearts across frames.

Colors

  • red
  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • centered text
  • bottom-right hearts

Dense Caption

Black background displays red pixelated text: 'thanks for the memories.' followed by '<3'. First frame shows one white heart; second frame shows two gray hearts; third frame shows three gray hearts; fourth frame shows four gray hearts. All frames have identical text and layout with only heart count changing.

Description

Red pixelated text reads 'thanks for the memories.' with '<3' and a heart symbol on black background, showing animation changes in heart symbols.

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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200710021235432138714007

Mood

  • nostalgic
  • sentimental

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • thanks for the memories
  • pixelated text animation
  • heart count increase
  • red black background

Objects

  • hearts

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • text
  • hearts

Visible Text

  • thanks for the memories.
  • <3

Wordwall

  • red pixelated text
  • 'thanks for the memories.'
  • <3 symbol
  • black background
  • heart symbols
  • animation: heart count increases
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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
200710021235432138714007
Archive entry
200710021235432138714007.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:48 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#200710021235432138714007.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200710021235432138714007.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016