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Four identical light blue squares with red borders each display yellow pixelated text reading "we were just friends..." and a single heart symbol below the text.

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Four identical light blue squares with red borders each display yellow pixelated text reading "we were just friends..." and a single heart symbol below the text.

Four identical light blue squares with red borders each display yellow pixelated text reading "we were just friends..." and a single heart symbol below the text. Animated 48×48 GI…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • heart coloration changes across frames: solid pink → faded pink → purple → gray

Animation Summary

  • Heart symbols below text change coloration across frames: solid pink → faded pink → purple → gray.

Composition

  • four-square
  • centered text
  • heart symbols below text

Dense Caption

Light blue square backgrounds with thin red borders. Yellow pixelated sans-serif text reads "we were just friends..." in four lines centered on each square. A small solid pink heart appears beneath the text in the top-left square; two smaller faded pink hearts appear beneath the text in the top-right square; two slightly larger faded purple hearts appear beneath the text in the bottom-left square; and two very faint gray hearts appear beneath the text in the bottom-right square. All squares have identical text layout but differ only in heart coloration.

Description

Four identical light blue squares with red borders each display yellow pixelated text reading "we were just friends..." and a single heart symbol below the text.

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
  • 200711011504261949550054

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • we were just friends we were just friends
  • pixel art heart animation
  • text we were just friends blue background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four-square grid

Visible Text

  • we were just friends...

Visually Supported Entities

  • text "we were just friends..."

Wordwall

  • light blue background
  • red border
  • yellow pixelated text
  • "we were just friends..."
  • single pink heart
  • two faded pink hearts
  • two purple hearts
  • two gray hearts

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200711011504261949550054
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
416 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/f0/f05a50f47786a4f52a69488a3c1b8cd2e218c613f5fcd3d6923df5d34bdb1224.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 UTC
Archive ID
f05a50f47786a4f5
SHA-256
f05a50f47786a4f52a69488a3c1b8cd2e218c613f5fcd3d6923df5d34bdb1224
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:02 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.074593

OpenAI category scores

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Four identical light blue squares with red borders each display yellow pixelated text reading "we were just friends..." and a single heart symbol below the text.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 14:10 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,076 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 722

Review tags

  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • melancholic (mood, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • hearts (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • heart coloration changes across frames: solid pink → faded pink → purple → gray

Animation Summary

  • Heart symbols below text change coloration across frames: solid pink → faded pink → purple → gray.

Colors

  • light blue
  • red
  • yellow
  • pink
  • purple
  • gray

Composition

  • four-square
  • centered text
  • heart symbols below text

Dense Caption

Light blue square backgrounds with thin red borders. Yellow pixelated sans-serif text reads "we were just friends..." in four lines centered on each square. A small solid pink heart appears beneath the text in the top-left square; two smaller faded pink hearts appear beneath the text in the top-right square; two slightly larger faded purple hearts appear beneath the text in the bottom-left square; and two very faint gray hearts appear beneath the text in the bottom-right square. All squares have identical text layout but differ only in heart coloration.

Description

Four identical light blue squares with red borders each display yellow pixelated text reading "we were just friends..." and a single heart symbol below the text.

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
  • 200711011504261949550054

Mood

  • melancholic
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • we were just friends we were just friends
  • pixel art heart animation
  • text we were just friends blue background

Objects

  • hearts

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four-square grid

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • text
  • hearts

Visible Text

  • we were just friends...

Visually Supported Entities

  • text "we were just friends..."

Wordwall

  • light blue background
  • red border
  • yellow pixelated text
  • "we were just friends..."
  • single pink heart
  • two faded pink hearts
  • two purple hearts
  • two gray 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
200711011504261949550054
Archive entry
200711011504261949550054.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 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#200711011504261949550054.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200711011504261949550054.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016