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Red pixelated text on cyan background reads 'love is so hard to find these days' with pink and light blue asterisks below, two identical frames side-by-side.

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Red pixelated text on cyan background reads 'love is so hard to find these days' with pink and light blue asterisks below, two identical frames side-by-side.

Red pixelated text on cyan background reads 'love is so hard to find these days' with pink and light blue asterisks below, two identical frames side-by-side. Animated 48×48 GIF AI…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • horizontal text layout
  • centered text
  • symmetrical frame arrangement

Dense Caption

Cyan background. Red pixelated sans-serif text: 'love is', 'so hard', 'to find', 'these days'. Below the text, five small asterisk symbols arranged horizontally: first three are pink, fourth is light blue, fifth is pink. Two identical frames displayed side-by-side with no visible motion between them.

Description

Red pixelated text on cyan background reads 'love is so hard to find these days' with pink and light blue asterisks below, two identical frames side-by-side.

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
  • 200710021235031872421921

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background red text asterisks
  • love is so hard to find these days
  • pixelated text cyan pink blue
  • asterisk arrangement five symbols

Visible Text

  • love is
  • so hard
  • to find
  • these days

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • red pixelated text
  • 'love is'
  • 'so hard'
  • 'to find'
  • 'these days'
  • five asterisks
  • pink and light blue asterisks

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200710021235031872421921
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:48 UTC

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GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.1 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:48 UTC
Archive ID
8d7e2d35780e619b
SHA-256
8d7e2d35780e619b70a1f6c407a4a02f82c2ba0b530c0606520515f97e84133f
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:43 UTC
Run
1127
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Red pixelated text on cyan background reads 'love is so hard to find these days' with pink and light blue asterisks below, two identical frames side-by-side.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 06:41 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,038 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,152, response 654

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • melancholic (mood, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
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Colors

  • cyan
  • red
  • pink
  • light blue

Composition

  • horizontal text layout
  • centered text
  • symmetrical frame arrangement

Dense Caption

Cyan background. Red pixelated sans-serif text: 'love is', 'so hard', 'to find', 'these days'. Below the text, five small asterisk symbols arranged horizontally: first three are pink, fourth is light blue, fifth is pink. Two identical frames displayed side-by-side with no visible motion between them.

Description

Red pixelated text on cyan background reads 'love is so hard to find these days' with pink and light blue asterisks below, two identical frames side-by-side.

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
  • 200710021235031872421921

Mood

  • melancholic
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background red text asterisks
  • love is so hard to find these days
  • pixelated text cyan pink blue
  • asterisk arrangement five symbols

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • love is
  • so hard
  • to find
  • these days

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • red pixelated text
  • 'love is'
  • 'so hard'
  • 'to find'
  • 'these days'
  • five asterisks
  • pink and light blue asterisks
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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
200710021235031872421921
Archive entry
200710021235031872421921.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#200710021235031872421921.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200710021235031872421921.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016