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A grid of nine pixelated images featuring various objects and figures including a black checkered pattern, glasses, a heart shape, and multiple faces.

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A grid of nine pixelated images featuring various objects and figures including a black checkered pattern, glasses, a heart shape, and multiple faces.

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • 3x3 grid
  • nine distinct panels
  • centered heart shape
  • symmetrical arrangement of elements

Dense Caption

The image is composed of nine distinct square panels arranged in a 3x3 grid. Top-left panel shows indistinct shapes with brown and gray tones. Top-middle panel displays a black checkered diagonal line on white background. Top-right panel contains blurred abstract colors including teal, brown, and dark blue. Middle-left panel features pixelated glasses on white background. Center panel has a light cyan square with concentric heart outlines in pale pink. Middle-right panel shows two side-by-side faces with brown hair against white background. Bottom-left panel displays indistinct shapes with greenish-brown tones. Bottom-middle panel contains mostly white space with small gray and black pixel clusters. Bottom-right panel features a face with dark hair, light skin tone, and visible shoulder area.

Description

A grid of nine pixelated images featuring various objects and figures including a black checkered pattern, glasses, a heart shape, and multiple faces.

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
  • 200710271218011692009170

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • checkered line heart glasses
  • cyan square face grid
  • pixelated abstract shapes
  • concentric hearts cyan background

Objects

  • heart
  • face
  • line

Subjects

  • heart shape

Wordwall

  • black checkered diagonal line
  • light cyan square
  • concentric heart outlines
  • pixelated glasses
  • two side-by-side faces
  • indistinct shapes
  • small gray/black pixel clusters

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200710271218011692009170
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
2.4 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/14/1477b7008631514fea215bb33ece3de7f5a8acd933565f46a74a3efe9701b0d7.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 UTC
Archive ID
1477b7008631514f
SHA-256
1477b7008631514fea215bb33ece3de7f5a8acd933565f46a74a3efe9701b0d7
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:04 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.133836

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A grid of nine pixelated images featuring various objects and figures including a black checkered pattern, glasses, a heart shape, and multiple faces.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 13:06 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,914 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,090, response 756

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • face (object, 0.80)
  • heart (object, 0.80)
  • line (object, 0.80)
  • shapes (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • abstract shapes (subject, 0.80)
  • checkered line (subject, 0.80)
  • faces (subject, 0.80)
  • glasses (subject, 0.80)
  • heart shape (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • cyan
  • pink
  • brown
  • gray
  • teal
  • greenish-brown

Composition

  • 3x3 grid
  • nine distinct panels
  • centered heart shape
  • symmetrical arrangement of elements

Dense Caption

The image is composed of nine distinct square panels arranged in a 3x3 grid. Top-left panel shows indistinct shapes with brown and gray tones. Top-middle panel displays a black checkered diagonal line on white background. Top-right panel contains blurred abstract colors including teal, brown, and dark blue. Middle-left panel features pixelated glasses on white background. Center panel has a light cyan square with concentric heart outlines in pale pink. Middle-right panel shows two side-by-side faces with brown hair against white background. Bottom-left panel displays indistinct shapes with greenish-brown tones. Bottom-middle panel contains mostly white space with small gray and black pixel clusters. Bottom-right panel features a face with dark hair, light skin tone, and visible shoulder area.

Description

A grid of nine pixelated images featuring various objects and figures including a black checkered pattern, glasses, a heart shape, and multiple faces.

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
  • 200710271218011692009170

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • checkered line heart glasses
  • cyan square face grid
  • pixelated abstract shapes
  • concentric hearts cyan background

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  • glasses
  • heart
  • face
  • line
  • shapes

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • grid layout

Subjects

  • glasses
  • heart shape
  • faces
  • checkered line
  • abstract shapes

Wordwall

  • black checkered diagonal line
  • light cyan square
  • concentric heart outlines
  • pixelated glasses
  • two side-by-side faces
  • indistinct shapes
  • small gray/black pixel clusters
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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
200710271218011692009170
Archive entry
200710271218011692009170.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#200710271218011692009170.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200710271218011692009170.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016