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Pixelated blue text on black background with pink heart symbol above left side, showing two states where the heart is present or absent.

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Pixelated blue text on black background with pink heart symbol above left side, showing two states where the heart is present or absent.

Pixelated blue text on black background with pink heart symbol above left side, showing two states where the heart is present or absent. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Int…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • heart icon appears in first state, absent in second state

Animation Summary

  • Heart icon appears in first state, absent in second state.

Composition

  • centered text block
  • symmetrical layout with left/right elements
  • top-left and top-right symbols

Dense Caption

Black background displays pixelated blue lowercase text "i thought we were 'forever'" in three lines. Above the text, a small blue plus sign and an 8-shaped symbol appear on both sides of the composition. A pink pixelated heart icon appears above the left-side text block but is absent from the right-side text block. The heart's presence or absence represents the only visible change between two states.

Description

  • Pixelated blue text on black background with pink heart symbol above left side, showing two states where the heart is present or absent.

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
  • 200910111502551544580651

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue text black background
  • 'forever' heart animation
  • pixelated 'i thought we were forever'
  • heart symbol blue plus sign

Objects

  • heart icon
  • plus sign

Subjects

  • text block
  • heart icon
  • plus sign

Visible Text

  • i thought we were 'forever'

Wordwall

  • blue lowercase text
  • 'forever'
  • black background
  • pink heart symbol
  • plus sign
  • 8-shaped symbol
  • pixelated rendering
  • two-state animation

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200910111502551544580651
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
985 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/de/deb3824357b80a99015b8a336194752f608f11c2024a50e88805073c36c34eac.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 UTC
Archive ID
deb3824357b80a99
SHA-256
deb3824357b80a99015b8a336194752f608f11c2024a50e88805073c36c34eac
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 27, 2026 at 22:27 UTC
Run
1201
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.004683

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:53 UTC
Run
1140
Input
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Overall label
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Overall score
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Pixelated blue text on black background with pink heart symbol above left side, showing two states where the heart is present or absent.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 18:57 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,189 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,149, response 693

Review tags

  • heart appears disappears (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • melancholic (mood, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • 8 shaped symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • heart icon (subject, 0.80)
  • plus sign (subject, 0.80)
  • text block (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • heart appears/disappears

Animation

  • heart icon appears in first state, absent in second state

Animation Summary

  • Heart icon appears in first state, absent in second state.

Colors

  • black
  • blue
  • pink

Composition

  • centered text block
  • symmetrical layout with left/right elements
  • top-left and top-right symbols

Dense Caption

Black background displays pixelated blue lowercase text "i thought we were 'forever'" in three lines. Above the text, a small blue plus sign and an 8-shaped symbol appear on both sides of the composition. A pink pixelated heart icon appears above the left-side text block but is absent from the right-side text block. The heart's presence or absence represents the only visible change between two states.

Description

  • Pixelated blue text on black background with pink heart symbol above left side, showing two states where the heart is present or absent.

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
  • 200910111502551544580651

Mood

  • melancholic
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue text black background
  • 'forever' heart animation
  • pixelated 'i thought we were forever'
  • heart symbol blue plus sign

Objects

  • heart icon
  • plus sign
  • 8-shaped symbol

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • text-based

Subjects

  • text block
  • heart icon
  • plus sign
  • 8-shaped symbol

Visible Text

  • i thought we were 'forever'

Wordwall

  • blue lowercase text
  • 'forever'
  • black background
  • pink heart symbol
  • plus sign
  • 8-shaped symbol
  • pixelated rendering
  • two-state animation
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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
200910111502551544580651
Archive entry
200910111502551544580651.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 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#200910111502551544580651.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200910111502551544580651.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016