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six distinct images featuring text overlays and symbolic visuals including an eye with a heart pupil, a couple embracing, and a blue eye with tears

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six distinct images featuring text overlays and symbolic visuals including an eye with a heart pupil, a couple embracing, and a blue eye with tears

six distinct images featuring text overlays and symbolic visuals including an eye with a heart pupil, a couple embracing, and a blue eye with tears. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy i…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • six

Dense Caption

Top-left: Blue eye with black heart-shaped pupil, white text 'my' on black background. Top-middle: Black-and-white image of two people embracing, white text 'heart' on black background. Top-right: Black cat on shelf, white text 'races' on black background. Bottom-left: Black-and-white image of two people embracing, white text 'for' on black background. Bottom-middle: Black-and-white image of two people embracing, white text 'his' on black background. Bottom-right: Blue eye with tears, white text 'love.' on black background. All images have high-contrast, pixelated style.

Description

six distinct images featuring text overlays and symbolic visuals including an eye with a heart pupil, a couple embracing, and a blue eye with tears

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • eye heart pupil
  • my heart races for his love
  • blue eye tears
  • cat shelf text
  • embrace pixelated text
  • high-contrast
  • heart symbol cat
  • tear drop eye

Objects

  • heart

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A grid of six distinct images featuring text overlays and symbolic visuals including an eye with a heart pupil, a couple embracing, and a blue eye with tears.
  • quarantined composition: six panels
  • quarantined composition: grid
  • quarantined retrieval: high-contrast grid

Subjects

  • eye
  • cat

Visible Text

  • my
  • heart
  • races
  • for
  • his
  • love.

Wordwall

  • eye with heart pupil
  • my
  • heart
  • races
  • for
  • his
  • love.
  • black cat
  • tears
  • embrace
  • pixelated
  • high-contrast
  • text overlay
  • blue eye
  • black background
  • white text
  • two people
  • cat on shelf
  • tear drop
  • heart symbol

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200810042053441912965500
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
8.5 KB
Motion
Animated (6 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 15:40 UTC
Archive ID
a9adf5f450115ba6
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:23 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.096234

OpenAI category scores

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six distinct images featuring text overlays and symbolic visuals including an eye with a heart pupil, a couple embracing, and a blue eye with tears

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 02:58 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,618 ms
Tokens
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  • embrace
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Colors

  • blue
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • six

Dense Caption

Top-left: Blue eye with black heart-shaped pupil, white text 'my' on black background. Top-middle: Black-and-white image of two people embracing, white text 'heart' on black background. Top-right: Black cat on shelf, white text 'races' on black background. Bottom-left: Black-and-white image of two people embracing, white text 'for' on black background. Bottom-middle: Black-and-white image of two people embracing, white text 'his' on black background. Bottom-right: Blue eye with tears, white text 'love.' on black background. All images have high-contrast, pixelated style.

Description

six distinct images featuring text overlays and symbolic visuals including an eye with a heart pupil, a couple embracing, and a blue eye with tears

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
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  • blue eye tears
  • cat shelf text
  • embrace pixelated text
  • high-contrast
  • heart symbol cat
  • tear drop eye

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  • heart
  • races
  • for
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  • love.

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  • white text
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  • tear drop
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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
200810042053441912965500
Archive entry
200810042053441912965500.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 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#200810042053441912965500.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200810042053441912965500.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016