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Black background with white pixelated text reading "the ones that are always by my side..." and red heart symbols in different positions across frames.

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Black background with white pixelated text reading "the ones that are always by my side..." and red heart symbols in different positions across frames.

Black background with white pixelated text reading "the ones that are always by my side..." and red heart symbols in different positions across frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM budd…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • hearts change color between frames: red to dark red and back to red

Animation Summary

  • The heart symbols change color between frames: red to dark red and back to red.

Composition

  • identical
  • text centered in each
  • heart symbols positioned below text

Dense Caption

The image consists of four identical panels arranged in a 2x2 grid on a black background. Each panel contains the same white pixelated text: "the ones that are always by my side...". In the top-left panel, there is one red heart symbol below the text; in the top-right panel, there is one dark red heart symbol below the text; in the bottom-left panel, there are no heart symbols; and in the bottom-right panel, there is one red heart symbol below the text. The hearts appear to be animated as they change color between frames.

Description

Black background with white pixelated text reading "the ones that are always by my side..." and red heart symbols in different positions across frames.

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
  • 20080126191703410627326

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • text the ones that are always by my side
  • red heart symbol black background
  • pixelated text animation hearts

Objects

  • red heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: four panels in 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: text centered in each panel
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid of identical panels

Subjects

  • heart symbols

Visible Text

  • the ones that are always by my side...

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • "the ones that are always by my side..."
  • red heart symbol
  • dark red heart symbol
  • four in

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080126191703410627326
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.2 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/f8/f8dbf69a455d53e3ff5c75d608db14f6ed5644d5b201abbeb68f3552d49ddecb.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 UTC
Archive ID
f8dbf69a455d53e3
SHA-256
f8dbf69a455d53e3ff5c75d608db14f6ed5644d5b201abbeb68f3552d49ddecb
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:07 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.082617

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Black background with white pixelated text reading "the ones that are always by my side..." and red heart symbols in different positions across frames.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 13:14 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,840 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,106, response 769

Review tags

  • hearts change color (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • sentimental (mood, 0.80)
  • dark red heart symbol (object, 0.80)
  • red heart symbol (object, 0.80)
  • minimalist (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbols (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • hearts change color

Animation

  • hearts change color between frames: red to dark red and back to red

Animation Summary

  • The heart symbols change color between frames: red to dark red and back to red.

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • red
  • dark red

Composition

  • identical
  • text centered in each
  • heart symbols positioned below text

Dense Caption

The image consists of four identical panels arranged in a 2x2 grid on a black background. Each panel contains the same white pixelated text: "the ones that are always by my side...". In the top-left panel, there is one red heart symbol below the text; in the top-right panel, there is one dark red heart symbol below the text; in the bottom-left panel, there are no heart symbols; and in the bottom-right panel, there is one red heart symbol below the text. The hearts appear to be animated as they change color between frames.

Description

Black background with white pixelated text reading "the ones that are always by my side..." and red heart symbols in different positions across frames.

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
  • 20080126191703410627326

Mood

  • affectionate
  • sentimental

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  • text the ones that are always by my side
  • red heart symbol black background
  • pixelated text animation hearts

Objects

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  • dark red heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

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Style

  • pixelated
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  • minimalist

Subjects

  • text
  • heart symbols

Visible Text

  • the ones that are always by my side...

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • "the ones that are always by my side..."
  • red heart symbol
  • dark red heart symbol
  • four in
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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
20080126191703410627326
Archive entry
20080126191703410627326.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 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#20080126191703410627326.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080126191703410627326.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016