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Pixelated grayscale image of two people in a close embrace, with text overlays on dark green background.

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Pixelated grayscale image of two people in a close embrace, with text overlays on dark green background.

Pixelated grayscale image of two people in a close embrace, with text overlays on dark green background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • left side: photo of two people; right side: text on dark background

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixelated photograph shows two individuals: one person stands slightly behind another wearing white tank top and light pants. The foreground figure has arms around the other's waist. Text elements include "i love BEN!" (top right), "Marry Me!!" (bottom left), and "ben <3" (bottom right). Background is solid dark green. All text uses blocky pixelated font with white characters on dark background.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale image of two people in a close embrace, with text overlays on dark green 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Named Entities

  • BEN

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i love BEN!
  • Marry Me!!
  • ben <3
  • grayscale photo two people embrace

Visible Text

  • i love BEN!
  • Marry Me!!
  • ben <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • BEN

Wordwall

  • two people
  • grayscale photo
  • white tank top
  • light pants
  • arms around waist
  • i love BEN!
  • Marry Me!!
  • ben <3
  • dark green background
  • pixelated text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070909064735328864676
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:44 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/22/22e19ae3200e09e6b14e994b86f980d1826783f8ae5eb5b58fa91c3764cdaa6e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:44 UTC
Archive ID
22e19ae3200e09e6
SHA-256
22e19ae3200e09e6b14e994b86f980d1826783f8ae5eb5b58fa91c3764cdaa6e
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:20 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.138062

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated grayscale image of two people in a close embrace, with text overlays on dark green background.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 00:37 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,045 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 618

Review tags

  • embrace (action, 0.80)
  • stand (action, 0.80)
  • dark green (color, 0.80)
  • grayscale (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • romantic (mood, 0.80)
  • text overlays (object, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • two people (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • embrace
  • stand

Colors

  • grayscale
  • dark green
  • white

Composition

  • left side: photo of two people; right side: text on dark background

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixelated photograph shows two individuals: one person stands slightly behind another wearing white tank top and light pants. The foreground figure has arms around the other's waist. Text elements include "i love BEN!" (top right), "Marry Me!!" (bottom left), and "ben <3" (bottom right). Background is solid dark green. All text uses blocky pixelated font with white characters on dark background.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale image of two people in a close embrace, with text overlays on dark green 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • affectionate
  • romantic

Named Entities

  • BEN

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i love BEN!
  • Marry Me!!
  • ben <3
  • grayscale photo two people embrace

Objects

  • text overlays

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • two people

Visible Text

  • i love BEN!
  • Marry Me!!
  • ben <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • BEN

Wordwall

  • two people
  • grayscale photo
  • white tank top
  • light pants
  • arms around waist
  • i love BEN!
  • Marry Me!!
  • ben <3
  • dark green background
  • pixelated text
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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
20070909064735328864676
Archive entry
20070909064735328864676.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:44 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#20070909064735328864676.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070909064735328864676.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016