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A grayscale animated icon shows a figure playing a violin atop a heart shape, with text changing across frames from 'You Tear Me Apart' to '<3'.

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A grayscale animated icon shows a figure playing a violin atop a heart shape, with text changing across frames from 'You Tear Me Apart' to '<3'.

A grayscale animated icon shows a figure playing a violin atop a heart shape, with text changing across frames from 'You Tear Me Apart' to '<3'. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • text changes

Animation Summary

  • Text changes from 'You Tear Me' to 'Me Apart' and '<3' appears in the bottom-right frame.

Composition

  • figure on heart
  • text in corners

Dense Caption

Grayscale animated icon features a figure in a top hat playing a violin while standing on a large heart shape. The figure has a small mustache and is positioned with arms raised to play the violin. Text appears in pixelated font: 'You' in top-left, 'Tear' in top-center, 'Me' in top-right, 'Apart' in bottom-left, and '<3' in bottom-right. The animation changes the text across frames while the figure and heart remain static. The background is white with a gray rectangular area in the bottom-right corner. The style is simple, pixelated, and monochromatic with no color beyond grayscale.

Description

A grayscale animated icon shows a figure playing a violin atop a heart shape, with text changing across frames from 'You Tear Me Apart' to '<3'.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200811300924541527047764
  • 20081130092455762575624

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • violin heart top hat
  • grayscale buddy icon
  • text changes you tear me apart
  • heart shape violin player
  • pixelated text <3

Preprocessing Notes

  • text '<3' is red in one frame

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Subjects

  • figure
  • heart shape

Visible Text

  • You
  • Tear
  • Me
  • Apart
  • <3

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • violin
  • heart shape
  • top hat
  • mustache
  • pixelated text
  • text changes
  • <3
  • white background
  • gray rectangle

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200811300924541527047764
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081130092455762575624
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
6.8 KB
Motion
Animated (5 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a7/a75cc68a906d2908f1d1020a67d49dd150bc5df63964a5ee973a569db7747e0d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 UTC
Archive ID
a75cc68a906d2908
SHA-256
a75cc68a906d2908f1d1020a67d49dd150bc5df63964a5ee973a569db7747e0d
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 7, 2026 at 04:27 UTC
Run
1272
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.022728

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:22 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.248417

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.875675onnx/unsafe0.248417onnx/nsfw0.198436onnx/nsfl0.049981
Enrichment records (1)
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A grayscale animated icon shows a figure playing a violin atop a heart shape, with text changing across frames from 'You Tear Me Apart' to '<3'.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 11:30 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,731 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,211, response 876

Review tags

  • playing (action, 0.80)
  • standing (action, 0.80)
  • melancholic (mood, 0.80)
  • sentimental (mood, 0.80)
  • mustache (object, 0.80)
  • top hat (object, 0.80)
  • monochromatic (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • simple (style, 0.80)
  • figure (subject, 0.80)
  • heart shape (subject, 0.80)
  • violin (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • playing
  • standing

Animation

  • text changes

Animation Summary

  • Text changes from 'You Tear Me' to 'Me Apart' and '<3' appears in the bottom-right frame.

Colors

  • grayscale
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • figure on heart
  • text in corners

Dense Caption

Grayscale animated icon features a figure in a top hat playing a violin while standing on a large heart shape. The figure has a small mustache and is positioned with arms raised to play the violin. Text appears in pixelated font: 'You' in top-left, 'Tear' in top-center, 'Me' in top-right, 'Apart' in bottom-left, and '<3' in bottom-right. The animation changes the text across frames while the figure and heart remain static. The background is white with a gray rectangular area in the bottom-right corner. The style is simple, pixelated, and monochromatic with no color beyond grayscale.

Description

A grayscale animated icon shows a figure playing a violin atop a heart shape, with text changing across frames from 'You Tear Me Apart' to '<3'.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200811300924541527047764
  • 20081130092455762575624

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • melancholic
  • sentimental

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • violin heart top hat
  • grayscale buddy icon
  • text changes you tear me apart
  • heart shape violin player
  • pixelated text <3

Objects

  • top hat
  • mustache

Preprocessing Notes

  • text '<3' is red in one frame

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Style

  • pixelated
  • monochromatic
  • simple

Subjects

  • figure
  • violin
  • heart shape

Visible Text

  • You
  • Tear
  • Me
  • Apart
  • <3

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • violin
  • heart shape
  • top hat
  • mustache
  • pixelated text
  • text changes
  • <3
  • white background
  • gray rectangle
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Full source records (2)

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
200811300924541527047764
Archive entry
200811300924541527047764.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 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#200811300924541527047764.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200811300924541527047764.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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
20081130092455762575624
Archive entry
20081130092455762575624.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 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#20081130092455762575624.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081130092455762575624.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016