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Red square with blue border displays 'Love Hurts' text and heart symbols; four variations show heart count changes from one to three.

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Red square with blue border displays 'Love Hurts' text and heart symbols; four variations show heart count changes from one to three.

Red square with blue border displays 'Love Hurts' text and heart symbols; four variations show heart count changes from one to three. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Intern…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • heart count increases from one to three
  • heart color shifts from blue to purple

Animation Summary

  • Heart count increases from one to three with color shift from blue to purple across four square variations.

Composition

  • four squares
  • text centered
  • hearts bottom-right

Dense Caption

Red square with blue border contains 'Love Hurts' text in black pixelated font. Top-left square has one blue heart; top-right has two purple hearts; bottom-left has two purple hearts; bottom-right has three purple hearts. All squares share identical text and border style. Heart colors shift from blue to purple across variations. Heart count increases from one to three across the four squares.

Description

  • Red square with blue border displays 'Love Hurts' text and heart symbols; four variations show heart count changes from one to three.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20081227101052852158248
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • love hurts hearts red blue
  • red square blue border love hurts
  • heart count variation love hurts
  • pixelated love hurts hearts

Preprocessing Notes

  • heart count and color changes are the only visible animation differences
  • quarantined style: grid layout

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains non-authoritative metadata

Visible Text

  • Love Hurts

Wordwall

  • red square
  • blue border
  • Love Hurts text
  • black pixelated font
  • one blue heart
  • two purple hearts
  • three purple hearts
  • heart count variation
  • heart color shift
  • identical text
  • identical border
  • four square variations

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081227101052852158248
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
721 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/d9/d9a57f9d25c3483c8ed44b95f459de7fcb0a1614545c35cfe1a70bed2fd342bf.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 UTC
Archive ID
d9a57f9d25c3483c
SHA-256
d9a57f9d25c3483c8ed44b95f459de7fcb0a1614545c35cfe1a70bed2fd342bf
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:42 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.098703

OpenAI category scores

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Red square with blue border displays 'Love Hurts' text and heart symbols; four variations show heart count changes from one to three.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 15:32 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,028 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 762

Review tags

  • heart color shift (action, 0.80)
  • heart count change (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • melancholic (mood, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • heart count increases from one to three (other, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repeated square (style, 0.80)
  • hearts (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • heart count change
  • heart color shift

Animation

  • heart count increases from one to three
  • heart color shifts from blue to purple

Animation Summary

  • Heart count increases from one to three with color shift from blue to purple across four square variations.

Colors

  • red
  • blue
  • black
  • purple

Composition

  • four squares
  • text centered
  • hearts bottom-right

Dense Caption

Red square with blue border contains 'Love Hurts' text in black pixelated font. Top-left square has one blue heart; top-right has two purple hearts; bottom-left has two purple hearts; bottom-right has three purple hearts. All squares share identical text and border style. Heart colors shift from blue to purple across variations. Heart count increases from one to three across the four squares.

Description

  • Red square with blue border displays 'Love Hurts' text and heart symbols; four variations show heart count changes from one to three.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

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  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20081227101052852158248
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • melancholic
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • love hurts hearts red blue
  • red square blue border love hurts
  • heart count variation love hurts
  • pixelated love hurts hearts

Objects

  • hearts

Preprocessing Notes

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Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains non-authoritative metadata

Style

  • pixelated
  • repeated square

Subjects

  • hearts

Visible Text

  • Love Hurts

Wordwall

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  • black pixelated font
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  • three purple hearts
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  • identical text
  • identical border
  • four square variations
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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
20081227101052852158248
Archive entry
20081227101052852158248.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#20081227101052852158248.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081227101052852158248.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016