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Green square with pink text reading "Cuz I've seen love die way to many times <3" and blue border, featuring a small animated heart or star in the bottom-right corner.

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Green square with pink text reading "Cuz I've seen love die way to many times <3" and blue border, featuring a small animated heart or star in the bottom-right corner.

Green square with pink text reading "Cuz I've seen love die way to many times <3" and blue border, featuring a small animated heart or star in the bottom-right corner. Animated 48…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • heart appears in top-right frame
  • star appears in bottom-right frame

Animation Summary

  • The top-right frame replaces the '<' in '<3' with a blue heart; the bottom-right frame replaces it with a blue star.

Composition

  • four-square
  • text-centered
  • uniform layout

Dense Caption

Four identical green squares with bright cyan borders contain pixelated pink text: "Cuz I've seen love die way to many times <3". The top-left square has no additional elements. The top-right square shows a blue pixelated heart replacing the '<' character in '<3'. The bottom-left square is unchanged from the first frame. The bottom-right square displays a blue pixelated star replacing the '<' character in '<3'. All squares share identical text layout and background color.

Description

Green square with pink text reading "Cuz I've seen love die way to many times <3" and blue border, featuring a small animated heart or star in the bottom-right corner.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200711191746341851639637

Named Entities

  • <3 symbol

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green square pink text <3
  • heart replaces <3
  • star replaces <3
  • <3 symbol pixel art

Objects

  • <3 symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four-square grid

Subjects

  • heart
  • star

Visible Text

  • Cuz I've seen love die way to many times <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • <3 symbol

Wordwall

  • green background
  • cyan border
  • pink text
  • <3 symbol
  • blue heart
  • blue star
  • pixelated font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200711191746341851639637
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:58 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
432 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/e3/e3318be366f59db21729ce01ccdb12b1d88357e85c15a82d5a2bd54564b0bde4.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:58 UTC
Archive ID
e3318be366f59db2
SHA-256
e3318be366f59db21729ce01ccdb12b1d88357e85c15a82d5a2bd54564b0bde4
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:55 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.122111

OpenAI category scores

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Green square with pink text reading "Cuz I've seen love die way to many times <3" and blue border, featuring a small animated heart or star in the bottom-right corner.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 20:21 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,346 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 722

Review tags

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  • star replaces 3 (action, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • melancholic (mood, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • 3 symbol (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • heart (subject, 0.80)
  • star (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • heart replaces <3
  • star replaces <3

Animation

  • heart appears in top-right frame
  • star appears in bottom-right frame

Animation Summary

  • The top-right frame replaces the '<' in '<3' with a blue heart; the bottom-right frame replaces it with a blue star.

Colors

  • green
  • cyan
  • pink
  • blue

Composition

  • four-square
  • text-centered
  • uniform layout

Dense Caption

Four identical green squares with bright cyan borders contain pixelated pink text: "Cuz I've seen love die way to many times <3". The top-left square has no additional elements. The top-right square shows a blue pixelated heart replacing the '<' character in '<3'. The bottom-left square is unchanged from the first frame. The bottom-right square displays a blue pixelated star replacing the '<' character in '<3'. All squares share identical text layout and background color.

Description

Green square with pink text reading "Cuz I've seen love die way to many times <3" and blue border, featuring a small animated heart or star in the bottom-right corner.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200711191746341851639637

Mood

  • melancholic
  • nostalgic

Named Entities

  • <3 symbol

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  • heart replaces <3
  • star replaces <3
  • <3 symbol pixel art

Objects

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Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four-square grid

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • text
  • heart
  • star

Visible Text

  • Cuz I've seen love die way to many times <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • <3 symbol

Wordwall

  • green background
  • cyan border
  • pink text
  • <3 symbol
  • blue heart
  • blue star
  • pixelated font
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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
200711191746341851639637
Archive entry
200711191746341851639637.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:58 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#200711191746341851639637.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200711191746341851639637.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016