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Pixelated text reads "i really shouldnt love him but i do" with pink asterisks and date "n.22.08" on black background, two identical frames side-by-side.

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Pixelated text reads "i really shouldnt love him but i do" with pink asterisks and date "n.22.08" on black background, two identical frames side-by-side.

Pixelated text reads "i really shouldnt love him but i do" with pink asterisks and date "n.22.08" on black background, two identical frames side-by-side. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM bu…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered text
  • two identical frames side-by-side
  • smaller date below main text

Dense Caption

Black background displays white pixelated text in four lines: "i really", "shouldnt", "love him", "but i do"; below this, smaller white text reads "n.22.08" with five pink asterisks above it. The image is duplicated side-by-side as two identical frames. Text uses a blocky, low-resolution font typical of early digital displays. All elements are static across both visible frames.

Description

Pixelated text reads "i really shouldnt love him but i do" with pink asterisks and date "n.22.08" on black background, two identical frames side-by-side.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200812241021061339615293

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i really shouldnt love him but i do
  • n.22.08 pink asterisks
  • pixelated text black background
  • two identical frames side-by-side

Visible Text

  • i really
  • shouldnt
  • love him
  • but i do
  • n.22.08

Wordwall

  • text: i really
  • text: shouldnt
  • text: love him
  • text: but i do
  • date: n.22.08
  • symbols: pink asterisks
  • background: black
  • font: pixelated blocky
  • layout: two identical frames side-by-side

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200812241021061339615293
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.8 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ae/ae710d462bc1b5cfb61b80d94508727062dc1af4dc611b05b3d184faa0bcb62f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 UTC
Archive ID
ae710d462bc1b5cf
SHA-256
ae710d462bc1b5cfb61b80d94508727062dc1af4dc611b05b3d184faa0bcb62f
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:26 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.118950

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text reads "i really shouldnt love him but i do" with pink asterisks and date "n.22.08" on black background, two identical frames side-by-side.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 15:15 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,639 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,144, response 663

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • confessional (mood, 0.80)
  • melancholic (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
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  • asterisks (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • pink

Composition

  • centered text
  • two identical frames side-by-side
  • smaller date below main text

Dense Caption

Black background displays white pixelated text in four lines: "i really", "shouldnt", "love him", "but i do"; below this, smaller white text reads "n.22.08" with five pink asterisks above it. The image is duplicated side-by-side as two identical frames. Text uses a blocky, low-resolution font typical of early digital displays. All elements are static across both visible frames.

Description

Pixelated text reads "i really shouldnt love him but i do" with pink asterisks and date "n.22.08" on black background, two identical frames side-by-side.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200812241021061339615293

Mood

  • melancholic
  • confessional

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i really shouldnt love him but i do
  • n.22.08 pink asterisks
  • pixelated text black background
  • two identical frames side-by-side

Objects

  • asterisks

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • text
  • asterisks

Visible Text

  • i really
  • shouldnt
  • love him
  • but i do
  • n.22.08

Wordwall

  • text: i really
  • text: shouldnt
  • text: love him
  • text: but i do
  • date: n.22.08
  • symbols: pink asterisks
  • background: black
  • font: pixelated blocky
  • layout: two identical frames side-by-side
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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
200812241021061339615293
Archive entry
200812241021061339615293.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 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#200812241021061339615293.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200812241021061339615293.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016