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Pixelated black-and-white animation shows text 'i want a hand to hold' with heart symbol above and arrow symbols below, alternating between two states.

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Pixelated black-and-white animation shows text 'i want a hand to hold' with heart symbol above and arrow symbols below, alternating between two states.

Pixelated black-and-white animation shows text 'i want a hand to hold' with heart symbol above and arrow symbols below, alternating between two states. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM budd…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • state 1: heart above text, arrows below
  • state 2: empty space above text, arrows below

Animation Summary

Alternates between two states: one with a heart symbol above text and arrow symbols below, another with empty space in the heart position while retaining all other elements.

Composition

  • text centered vertically
  • symbols top-left and bottom-left
  • heart symbol top-center in one state

Dense Caption

Black background displays white pixelated text: 'i want', 'a hand', 'to hold'. Top-left has '>' '_', '<' symbols; top-center features a heart outline. Bottom-left shows '>' '_', '<' symbols. Left frame includes a heart symbol above the text and arrow symbols below it, while right frame replaces the heart with an empty space in the same position. Both frames share identical text layout and arrow symbols at bottom.

Description

Pixelated black-and-white animation shows text 'i want a hand to hold' with heart symbol above and arrow symbols below, alternating between two states.

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 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
  • 200712151854531026442663

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i want a hand to hold pixel art
  • heart symbol animation black white
  • arrow symbols pixelated text

Objects

  • heart outline
  • > _ <

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • i want
  • a hand
  • to hold

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • i want
  • a hand
  • to hold
  • heart symbol
  • > _ <
  • pixel art style

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200712151854531026442663
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:05 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
882 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/72/728513324cedf111235d434801d1984e0f772ea31ffcc74139f1870e053a5bdb.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:05 UTC
Archive ID
728513324cedf111
SHA-256
728513324cedf111235d434801d1984e0f772ea31ffcc74139f1870e053a5bdb
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:38 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.074788

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated black-and-white animation shows text 'i want a hand to hold' with heart symbol above and arrow symbols below, alternating between two states.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 02:18 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,056 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,146, response 728

Review tags

  • alternates between two states (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • sentimental (mood, 0.80)
  • heart outline (object, 0.80)
  • white text on black background (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • monochrome (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • arrow symbols (subject, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • alternates between two states

Animation

  • state 1: heart above text, arrows below
  • state 2: empty space above text, arrows below

Animation Summary

Alternates between two states: one with a heart symbol above text and arrow symbols below, another with empty space in the heart position while retaining all other elements.

Colors

  • black
  • white

Composition

  • text centered vertically
  • symbols top-left and bottom-left
  • heart symbol top-center in one state

Dense Caption

Black background displays white pixelated text: 'i want', 'a hand', 'to hold'. Top-left has '>' '_', '<' symbols; top-center features a heart outline. Bottom-left shows '>' '_', '<' symbols. Left frame includes a heart symbol above the text and arrow symbols below it, while right frame replaces the heart with an empty space in the same position. Both frames share identical text layout and arrow symbols at bottom.

Description

Pixelated black-and-white animation shows text 'i want a hand to hold' with heart symbol above and arrow symbols below, alternating between two states.

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 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
  • 200712151854531026442663

Mood

  • sentimental
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i want a hand to hold pixel art
  • heart symbol animation black white
  • arrow symbols pixelated text

Objects

  • heart outline
  • > _ <
  • white text on black background

Style

  • pixel art
  • monochrome
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • text
  • heart symbol
  • arrow symbols

Visible Text

  • i want
  • a hand
  • to hold

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • i want
  • a hand
  • to hold
  • heart symbol
  • > _ <
  • pixel art 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
200712151854531026442663
Archive entry
200712151854531026442663.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:05 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#200712151854531026442663.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200712151854531026442663.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016