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Pixelated black-and-white image with 'FREE HUGS' text above a figure with outstretched arms against a dark background.

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Pixelated black-and-white image with 'FREE HUGS' text above a figure with outstretched arms against a dark background.

Pixelated black-and-white image with 'FREE HUGS' text above a figure with outstretched arms against a dark background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons S…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text at top
  • figure below text
  • dark background

Dense Caption

The image is a static, pixelated black-and-white composition. At the top, the text 'FREE HUGS' appears in large, blocky, white pixelated letters. Below the text, a figure with outstretched arms is depicted; the figure's head is a light gray pixelated shape, and the arms are elongated, light gray pixelated forms extending horizontally. The background is a dark, pixelated texture with subtle variations in gray tones. The overall style is low-resolution, characteristic of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated black-and-white image with 'FREE HUGS' text above a figure with outstretched arms against a dark background.

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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080624171336819561066

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • free hugs pixelated figure
  • black and white hug icon
  • outstretched arms pixel art
  • low resolution hug text

Subjects

  • figure

Visible Text

  • FREE HUGS

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • black-and-white
  • FREE HUGS text
  • outstretched arms
  • dark background
  • low-resolution
  • blocky text
  • gray tones
  • static image
  • figure silhouette

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080624171336819561066
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:31 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/15/15a166cbc009123b199a358b72ca65ab85275703f810b31164aeb82342fc074d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:31 UTC
Archive ID
15a166cbc009123b
SHA-256
15a166cbc009123b199a358b72ca65ab85275703f810b31164aeb82342fc074d
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:06 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.077018

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated black-and-white image with 'FREE HUGS' text above a figure with outstretched arms against a dark background.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 08:20 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,261 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,092, response 661

Review tags

  • outstretched arms (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • friendly (mood, 0.80)
  • welcoming (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
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  • figure (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • outstretched arms

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • text at top
  • figure below text
  • dark background

Dense Caption

The image is a static, pixelated black-and-white composition. At the top, the text 'FREE HUGS' appears in large, blocky, white pixelated letters. Below the text, a figure with outstretched arms is depicted; the figure's head is a light gray pixelated shape, and the arms are elongated, light gray pixelated forms extending horizontally. The background is a dark, pixelated texture with subtle variations in gray tones. The overall style is low-resolution, characteristic of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated black-and-white image with 'FREE HUGS' text above a figure with outstretched arms against a dark background.

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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080624171336819561066

Mood

  • welcoming
  • friendly

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • free hugs pixelated figure
  • black and white hug icon
  • outstretched arms pixel art
  • low resolution hug text

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky text

Subjects

  • figure

Visible Text

  • FREE HUGS

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • black-and-white
  • FREE HUGS text
  • outstretched arms
  • dark background
  • low-resolution
  • blocky text
  • gray tones
  • static image
  • figure silhouette
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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
20080624171336819561066
Archive entry
20080624171336819561066.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:31 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#20080624171336819561066.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080624171336819561066.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016