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Pixelated text on a dark blue background with heart-shaped patterns, divided into four quadrants.

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Pixelated text on a dark blue background with heart-shaped patterns, divided into four quadrants.

Pixelated text on a dark blue background with heart-shaped patterns, divided into four quadrants. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • centered text

Dense Caption

The image is split into four equal quadrants. Top-left quadrant shows white pixelated text ".LETTING GO." against a dark blue background with faint heart shapes and light streaks. Top-right quadrant displays "It Seems To Be One Of" in the same style. Bottom-left contains "The HARDEST Things" with identical background elements. Bottom-right is solid gray. All text uses a retro pixel font; no animation or motion changes are visible.

Description

  • Pixelated text on a dark blue background with heart-shaped patterns, divided into four quadrants.

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
  • 200709220808391341373977

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • letting go it seems to be one of the hardest things
  • pixelated text dark blue background heart shapes
  • four quadrants white gray text
  • retro pixel font melancholic mood

Objects

  • heart shapes

Visible Text

  • .LETTING GO.
  • It Seems
  • To Be
  • One Of
  • The
  • HARDEST
  • Things

Wordwall

  • .LETTING GO.
  • It Seems
  • To Be
  • One Of
  • The
  • HARDEST
  • Things
  • dark blue background
  • heart shapes
  • light streaks
  • pixelated text
  • four quadrants

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709220808391341373977
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:47 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.9 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/84/84b2fc1e6db0eb98f4756be801971e9d5ebbe5d1c3ed54da4422beca3dd9299f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:47 UTC
Archive ID
84b2fc1e6db0eb98
SHA-256
84b2fc1e6db0eb98f4756be801971e9d5ebbe5d1c3ed54da4422beca3dd9299f
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:28 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.084867

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text on a dark blue background with heart-shaped patterns, divided into four quadrants.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 03:44 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,754 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 672

Review tags

  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • melancholic (mood, 0.80)
  • heart shapes (object, 0.80)
  • light streaks (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • dark blue
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • centered text

Dense Caption

The image is split into four equal quadrants. Top-left quadrant shows white pixelated text ".LETTING GO." against a dark blue background with faint heart shapes and light streaks. Top-right quadrant displays "It Seems To Be One Of" in the same style. Bottom-left contains "The HARDEST Things" with identical background elements. Bottom-right is solid gray. All text uses a retro pixel font; no animation or motion changes are visible.

Description

  • Pixelated text on a dark blue background with heart-shaped patterns, divided into four quadrants.

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
  • 200709220808391341373977

Mood

  • melancholic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • letting go it seems to be one of the hardest things
  • pixelated text dark blue background heart shapes
  • four quadrants white gray text
  • retro pixel font melancholic mood

Objects

  • heart shapes
  • light streaks

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro

Subjects

  • text

Visible Text

  • .LETTING GO.
  • It Seems
  • To Be
  • One Of
  • The
  • HARDEST
  • Things

Wordwall

  • .LETTING GO.
  • It Seems
  • To Be
  • One Of
  • The
  • HARDEST
  • Things
  • dark blue background
  • heart shapes
  • light streaks
  • pixelated text
  • four quadrants
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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
200709220808391341373977
Archive entry
200709220808391341373977.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:47 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#200709220808391341373977.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709220808391341373977.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016