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Pixelated text 'love is a an obstacle' with red heart symbol on black background, two identical frames side-by-side.

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Pixelated text 'love is a an obstacle' with red heart symbol on black background, two identical frames side-by-side.

Pixelated text 'love is a an obstacle' with red heart symbol on black background, two identical frames side-by-side. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Franks…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text arranged in three lines
  • heart positioned above and right of 'love'

Dense Caption

Black background. Pixelated white text: 'love', then 'is a an', then 'obstacle'. Red pixelated heart symbol positioned above and to the right of 'love'. Two identical visual layouts displayed horizontally adjacent. Text uses blocky 8-bit style font with visible dithering. No animation observed in provided frames.

Description

  • Pixelated text 'love is a an obstacle' with red heart symbol on black background, two identical frames side-by-side.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • love is a an obstacle
  • pixelated heart text
  • 8-bit love obstacle
  • red heart pixel art

Objects

  • heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • Text contains typo: 'a an' instead of 'an'

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • love
  • is a an
  • obstacle

Visually Supported Entities

  • heart symbol

Wordwall

  • black background
  • pixelated white text
  • red heart symbol
  • blocky 8-bit font
  • text: love is a an obstacle
  • two identical layouts

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080521154250919393248
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:27 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
865 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/89/89d2e06d0733fd2f15923ecfd2a9a4e2aac668dd7b20cc916e6bce5e7e88acbc.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:27 UTC
Archive ID
89d2e06d0733fd2f
SHA-256
89d2e06d0733fd2f15923ecfd2a9a4e2aac668dd7b20cc916e6bce5e7e88acbc
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:39 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.090907

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text 'love is a an obstacle' with red heart symbol on black background, two identical frames side-by-side.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 17:43 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
16,590 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,141, response 678

Review tags

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  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
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  • black
  • white
  • red

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  • text arranged in three lines
  • heart positioned above and right of 'love'

Dense Caption

Black background. Pixelated white text: 'love', then 'is a an', then 'obstacle'. Red pixelated heart symbol positioned above and to the right of 'love'. Two identical visual layouts displayed horizontally adjacent. Text uses blocky 8-bit style font with visible dithering. No animation observed in provided frames.

Description

  • Pixelated text 'love is a an obstacle' with red heart symbol on black background, two identical frames side-by-side.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • love is a an obstacle
  • pixelated heart text
  • 8-bit love obstacle
  • red heart pixel art

Objects

  • heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • Text contains typo: 'a an' instead of 'an'

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

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  • pixelated
  • 8-bit
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • love
  • is a an
  • obstacle

Visually Supported Entities

  • heart symbol

Wordwall

  • black background
  • pixelated white text
  • red heart symbol
  • blocky 8-bit font
  • text: love is a an obstacle
  • two identical layouts
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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
20080521154250919393248
Archive entry
20080521154250919393248.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:27 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#20080521154250919393248.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080521154250919393248.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016