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A four- shows text and a heart-shaped flame; the bottom-right is blank

A four- shows text and a heart-shaped flame; the bottom-right is blank. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2000s to Mid-…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text above hands
  • heart formation in bottom-left

Dense Caption

The image consists of a 2x2 grid. Top-left panel: black background with white pixelated text reading "sick of crying tired of trying" over dark hands holding an orange-yellow flame. Top-right panel: same background and flame, white text reads "yet im smiling but inside im dying." Bottom-left panel: two hands form a heart shape around the flame; bottom-right is solid gray. All panels share a grayscale gradient background with black borders between sections.

Description

  • A four- shows text and a heart-shaped flame; the bottom-right is blank

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20090301125907212365746
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance era: 2007-2016

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hands holding flame text
  • heart shape flame melancholic text
  • grayscale background pixelated text
  • text sick of crying yet im smiling

Preprocessing Notes

  • bottom-right panel is solid gray, not part of the animated sequence
  • quarantined description: A four-panel grid shows text and a heart-shaped flame; the bottom-right panel is blank.
  • quarantined wordwall: bottom-right panel blank
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: hands holding flame text grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • sick of crying tired of trying
  • yet im smiling but inside im dying

Visually Supported Entities

  • flame

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • hands holding flame
  • heart-shaped flame
  • grayscale gradient background
  • bottom-right blank

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090301125907212365746
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
4 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/e3/e33f18e051b166c8c5ca22ba7df93d09d208ec4929694b3b030f322b9b96dad6.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 UTC
Archive ID
e33f18e051b166c8
SHA-256
e33f18e051b166c8c5ca22ba7df93d09d208ec4929694b3b030f322b9b96dad6
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
0.085809

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.927715onnx/unsafe0.085809onnx/nsfw0.046610onnx/nsfl0.039199
Enrichment records (1)
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A four- shows text and a heart-shaped flame; the bottom-right is blank

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 01:12 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,847 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 742

Review tags

  • forming heart shape (action, 0.80)
  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • contrasting emotions (mood, 0.80)
  • melancholic (mood, 0.80)
  • grayscale with color accents (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • flame (subject, 0.80)
  • hands (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding
  • forming heart shape

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray
  • orange
  • yellow
  • red

Composition

  • text above hands
  • heart formation in bottom-left

Dense Caption

The image consists of a 2x2 grid. Top-left panel: black background with white pixelated text reading "sick of crying tired of trying" over dark hands holding an orange-yellow flame. Top-right panel: same background and flame, white text reads "yet im smiling but inside im dying." Bottom-left panel: two hands form a heart shape around the flame; bottom-right is solid gray. All panels share a grayscale gradient background with black borders between sections.

Description

  • A four- shows text and a heart-shaped flame; the bottom-right is blank

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20090301125907212365746
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance era: 2007-2016

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • melancholic
  • contrasting emotions

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hands holding flame text
  • heart shape flame melancholic text
  • grayscale background pixelated text
  • text sick of crying yet im smiling

Objects

  • flame

Preprocessing Notes

  • bottom-right panel is solid gray, not part of the animated sequence
  • quarantined description: A four-panel grid shows text and a heart-shaped flame; the bottom-right panel is blank.
  • quarantined wordwall: bottom-right panel blank
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: hands holding flame text grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • grayscale with color accents

Subjects

  • hands
  • flame

Visible Text

  • sick of crying tired of trying
  • yet im smiling but inside im dying

Visually Supported Entities

  • flame

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • hands holding flame
  • heart-shaped flame
  • grayscale gradient background
  • bottom-right blank
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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
20090301125907212365746
Archive entry
20090301125907212365746.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 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#20090301125907212365746.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090301125907212365746.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016