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Black square with white pixelated text reading "Hard to Believe I'm still Lonely..." and a heart symbol changing from solid to empty across four

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Black square with white pixelated text reading "Hard to Believe I'm still Lonely..." and a heart symbol changing from solid to empty across four

Black square with white pixelated text reading "Hard to Believe I'm still Lonely..." and a heart symbol changing from solid to empty across four. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon…

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Action

Style

Mood

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Animation

  • heart symbol changes across four : solid white → two gray hearts → one light gray and one dark gray heart → two dark gray hearts

Animation Summary

Heart symbol changes from solid white to empty states across four : solid white → two gray hearts → one light gray and one dark gray heart → two dark gray hearts

Composition

  • centered text
  • heart symbols in bottom-right corner of each square

Dense Caption

Four identical black squares arranged in a 2x2 grid, each containing white pixelated text: "Hard to Believe I'm still Lonely...". Top-right square has two gray hearts; bottom-left square has one gray heart and one light gray heart; bottom-right square has two dark gray hearts. The top-left square contains one solid white heart. All squares have thin white borders.

Description

Black square with white pixelated text reading "Hard to Believe I'm still Lonely..." and a heart symbol changing from solid to empty across four

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • "Hard to Believe I'm still Lonely..." text
  • heart animation change
  • pixelated black background
  • text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Black square with white pixelated text reading "Hard to Believe I'm still Lonely..." and a heart symbol changing from solid to empty across four panels.
  • quarantined animationSummary: Heart symbol changes from solid white to empty states across four panels: solid white → two gray hearts → one light gray and one dark gray heart → two dark gray hearts.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined animation: heart symbol changes across four panels: solid white → two gray hearts → one light gray and one dark gray heart → two dark gray hearts
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid of text

Visible Text

  • Hard to Believe I'm still Lonely...

Visually Supported Entities

  • text
  • hearts

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • "Hard to Believe I'm still Lonely..."
  • heart symbol changes
  • solid white heart
  • gray hearts
  • light gray heart
  • dark gray hearts

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200810151820321591654943
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.1 KB
Motion
Animated (4 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 15:41 UTC
Archive ID
a3efd3550368063a
SHA-256
a3efd3550368063a7255862219afc64ebc8609fea73c560d19a8b41a0882756d
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:20 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.078089

OpenAI category scores

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Black square with white pixelated text reading "Hard to Believe I'm still Lonely..." and a heart symbol changing from solid to empty across four

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 04:18 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,872 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 712

Review tags

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  • dark gray (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
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  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • minimalist (style, 0.80)
  • monochrome (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • hearts (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • heart symbol changes from solid white to empty states

Animation

  • heart symbol changes across four : solid white → two gray hearts → one light gray and one dark gray heart → two dark gray hearts

Animation Summary

Heart symbol changes from solid white to empty states across four : solid white → two gray hearts → one light gray and one dark gray heart → two dark gray hearts

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray
  • light gray
  • dark gray

Composition

  • centered text
  • heart symbols in bottom-right corner of each square

Dense Caption

Four identical black squares arranged in a 2x2 grid, each containing white pixelated text: "Hard to Believe I'm still Lonely...". Top-right square has two gray hearts; bottom-left square has one gray heart and one light gray heart; bottom-right square has two dark gray hearts. The top-left square contains one solid white heart. All squares have thin white borders.

Description

Black square with white pixelated text reading "Hard to Believe I'm still Lonely..." and a heart symbol changing from solid to empty across four

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

Mood

  • melancholic
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • "Hard to Believe I'm still Lonely..." text
  • heart animation change
  • pixelated black background
  • text

Objects

  • hearts

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Black square with white pixelated text reading "Hard to Believe I'm still Lonely..." and a heart symbol changing from solid to empty across four panels.
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  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined animation: heart symbol changes across four panels: solid white → two gray hearts → one light gray and one dark gray heart → two dark gray hearts
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid of text

Style

  • pixelated
  • monochrome
  • minimalist

Subjects

  • text
  • hearts

Visible Text

  • Hard to Believe I'm still Lonely...

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  • text
  • hearts

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • "Hard to Believe I'm still Lonely..."
  • heart symbol changes
  • solid white heart
  • gray hearts
  • light gray heart
  • dark gray hearts
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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
200810151820321591654943
Archive entry
200810151820321591654943.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 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#200810151820321591654943.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200810151820321591654943.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016