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Five red heart-shaped icons with pixelated text; top has black text, bottom has pink text, all on white background

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Five red heart-shaped icons with pixelated text; top has black text, bottom has pink text, all on white background

Five red heart-shaped icons with pixelated text; top has black text, bottom has pink text, all on white background. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksI…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • five icons arranged in two (3 top, 2 bottom)
  • hearts centered in each icon
  • text centered within hearts

Dense Caption

Five red heart-shaped icons with pixelated text on white background. Top row (left to right): first heart has black text "everytime i catch him staring"; second heart has black text "i just wanna march right over"; third heart has black text "and say in front of the world". Bottom row (left to right): fourth heart has pink text ""what happened to how we"; fifth heart has pink text "used to be?". All hearts have black outlines and light red inner fill. Icons are static with no animation.

Description

  • Five red heart-shaped icons with pixelated text; top has black text, bottom has pink text, all on white background

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation file-name (gallery): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • observation title (gallery): 200909261637011149221966
  • observation file-name (gallery): 200909261637011149221966

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red heart text icons
  • nostalgic text hearts
  • pixel art heart quotes
  • sentimental heart icons
  • text-based heart images
  • black and pink heart text
  • heart shaped text icons
  • static heart quote icons

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Five red heart-shaped icons with pixelated text; top row has black text, bottom row has pink text, all on white background.
  • quarantined composition: five icons arranged in two rows (3 top, 2 bottom)

Visible Text

  • everytime i catch him staring
  • i just wanna march right over
  • and say in front of the world
  • "what happened to how we
  • used to be?

Wordwall

  • red heart shapes
  • black pixelated text
  • pink pixelated text
  • white background
  • five icons
  • text fragments
  • no animation
  • pixel art style
  • black outlines
  • light red fill

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200909261637011149221966
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
5.7 KB
Motion
Animated (5 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/9c/9c01e59684d39c8752becd70799862d3d198d5af017d722b95c64298aff7ecfa.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 UTC
Archive ID
9c01e59684d39c87
SHA-256
9c01e59684d39c8752becd70799862d3d198d5af017d722b95c64298aff7ecfa
Content-safety assessments (3)
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Assessed
August 27, 2026 at 16:26 UTC
Run
1355
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000485

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Assessed
August 3, 2026 at 10:24 UTC
Run
1258
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:16 UTC
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OpenAI category scores

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Five red heart-shaped icons with pixelated text; top has black text, bottom has pink text, all on white background

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 18:21 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,678 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,168, response 824

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • light red (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • sentimental (mood, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • hearts (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • black
  • white
  • pink
  • light red

Composition

  • five icons arranged in two (3 top, 2 bottom)
  • hearts centered in each icon
  • text centered within hearts

Dense Caption

Five red heart-shaped icons with pixelated text on white background. Top row (left to right): first heart has black text "everytime i catch him staring"; second heart has black text "i just wanna march right over"; third heart has black text "and say in front of the world". Bottom row (left to right): fourth heart has pink text ""what happened to how we"; fifth heart has pink text "used to be?". All hearts have black outlines and light red inner fill. Icons are static with no animation.

Description

  • Five red heart-shaped icons with pixelated text; top has black text, bottom has pink text, all on white background

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation file-name (gallery): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • observation title (gallery): 200909261637011149221966
  • observation file-name (gallery): 200909261637011149221966

Mood

  • sentimental
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • nostalgic text hearts
  • pixel art heart quotes
  • sentimental heart icons
  • text-based heart images
  • black and pink heart text
  • heart shaped text icons
  • static heart quote icons

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined composition: five icons arranged in two rows (3 top, 2 bottom)

Style

  • pixel art
  • text-based
  • static

Subjects

  • hearts

Visible Text

  • everytime i catch him staring
  • i just wanna march right over
  • and say in front of the world
  • "what happened to how we
  • used to be?

Wordwall

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  • black pixelated text
  • pink pixelated text
  • white background
  • five icons
  • text fragments
  • no animation
  • pixel art style
  • black outlines
  • light red fill
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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
200909261637011149221966
Archive entry
200909261637011149221966.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 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#200909261637011149221966.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200909261637011149221966.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016