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Black background with white pixelated text reading "if only he loved me as much as i love him" and a '<3' symbol, framed by red border.

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Black background with white pixelated text reading "if only he loved me as much as i love him" and a '<3' symbol, framed by red border.

Black background with white pixelated text reading "if only he loved me as much as i love him" and a '<3' symbol, framed by red border. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Inte…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

heart symbols change from single solid red heart to two broken hearts, then to two partial hearts with one missing segment, and finally to two darkened hearts

Animation Summary

Heart symbols animate through four states: single solid red heart, two broken hearts, two partial hearts with one missing segment, and two darkened hearts.

Composition

  • centered text
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Four identical panels arranged in a 2x2 grid on black background. Each panel contains white pixelated text: 'if only he loved me as much as i love him', followed by '<3'. Red border frames each panel. Animation shows heart symbols changing from single solid red heart to two broken hearts, then to two partial hearts with one missing segment, and finally to two darkened hearts.

Description

  • Black background with white pixelated text reading "if only he loved me as much as i love him" and a '<3' symbol, framed by red border.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200901091821191223327324
  • franksicons
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • text-based buddy icon
  • heart animation sequence
  • if only he loved me as much as i love him
  • <3 symbol
  • pixel art text
  • red border black background
  • melancholy mood

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid layout

Subjects

  • heart symbols

Visible Text

  • if only he loved me
  • as much asas much as
  • i love him
  • <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • text-based icon
  • <3 symbol

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • 'if only he loved me as much as i love him'
  • <3 symbol
  • red border
  • heart animation sequence
  • single red heart → broken hearts → partial hearts → darkened hearts

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200901091821191223327324
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
474 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/d7/d7302e89d1dfe0351cc254b00a0a8eb2f5a355f88251362aebf51b76ca022409.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 UTC
Archive ID
d7302e89d1dfe035
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:49 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.076362

OpenAI category scores

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Black background with white pixelated text reading "if only he loved me as much as i love him" and a '<3' symbol, framed by red border.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 17:21 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,567 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 813

Review tags

  • heart animation sequence (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • longing (mood, 0.80)
  • melancholy (mood, 0.80)
  • black background (object, 0.80)
  • red border (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • 3 symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • heart symbols (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • heart animation sequence

Animation

heart symbols change from single solid red heart to two broken hearts, then to two partial hearts with one missing segment, and finally to two darkened hearts

Animation Summary

Heart symbols animate through four states: single solid red heart, two broken hearts, two partial hearts with one missing segment, and two darkened hearts.

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • red

Composition

  • centered text
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Four identical panels arranged in a 2x2 grid on black background. Each panel contains white pixelated text: 'if only he loved me as much as i love him', followed by '<3'. Red border frames each panel. Animation shows heart symbols changing from single solid red heart to two broken hearts, then to two partial hearts with one missing segment, and finally to two darkened hearts.

Description

  • Black background with white pixelated text reading "if only he loved me as much as i love him" and a '<3' symbol, framed by red border.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200901091821191223327324
  • franksicons
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • longing
  • melancholy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • heart animation sequence
  • if only he loved me as much as i love him
  • <3 symbol
  • pixel art text
  • red border black background
  • melancholy mood

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  • red border
  • black background

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid layout

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • text-based

Subjects

  • text
  • '<3' symbol
  • heart symbols

Visible Text

  • if only he loved me
  • as much asas much as
  • i love him
  • <3

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  • text-based icon
  • <3 symbol

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • 'if only he loved me as much as i love him'
  • <3 symbol
  • red border
  • heart animation sequence
  • single red heart → broken hearts → partial hearts → darkened 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
200901091821191223327324
Archive entry
200901091821191223327324.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 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#200901091821191223327324.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200901091821191223327324.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016