A pixelated image of a person holding a small dog, with text elements including 'ily', '3 joel 3', and '<3 mchale <3' on black backgrounds.

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A pixelated image of a person holding a small dog, with text elements including 'ily', '3 joel 3', and '<3 mchale <3' on black backgrounds.

A pixelated image of a person holding a small dog, with text elements including 'ily', '3 joel 3', and '<3 mchale <3' on black backgrounds. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Composition

  • four-section
  • top-left image, top-right text, bottom-left text, bottom-right text

Dense Caption

The icon consists of four distinct sections. Top-left: A pixelated figure in dark clothing holds a small brown dog against a light background; the figure's face is partially visible with short hair. Top-right: White text 'ily' appears between two white chevron symbols '<' on black background. Bottom-left: White numerals '3', lowercase word 'joel', and numeral '3' are stacked vertically on black background. Bottom-right: White text '<3 mchale <3' is displayed with the first '<3' above 'mchale' and second below it, all on black background.

Description

  • A pixelated image of a person holding a small dog, with text elements including 'ily', '3 joel 3', and '<3 mchale <3' on black backgrounds.

Identity Hypotheses

  • mchale

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: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070909123638293713628

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person holding dog ily
  • joel mchale <3
  • <3 mchale joel
  • dog text icon

Objects

  • dog

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four-section grid layout

Subjects

  • dog

Visible Text

  • ily
  • 3
  • joel
  • mchale

Visually Supported Entities

  • mchale

Wordwall

  • person holding dog
  • dark clothing
  • small brown dog
  • pixelated figure
  • white text
  • black background
  • chevron symbols
  • numeral 3
  • lowercase joel
  • <3 mchale

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070909123638293713628
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:44 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/2a/2a3694f6c02d5d71321a8f9b2e2268a46216868c29946990e9a71ad25218cc5f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:44 UTC
Archive ID
2a3694f6c02d5d71
SHA-256
2a3694f6c02d5d71321a8f9b2e2268a46216868c29946990e9a71ad25218cc5f
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:53 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.109716

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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A pixelated image of a person holding a small dog, with text elements including 'ily', '3 joel 3', and '<3 mchale <3' on black backgrounds.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 00:43 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,160 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,115, response 708

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • dog (subject, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • dark gray
  • brown

Composition

  • four-section
  • top-left image, top-right text, bottom-left text, bottom-right text

Dense Caption

The icon consists of four distinct sections. Top-left: A pixelated figure in dark clothing holds a small brown dog against a light background; the figure's face is partially visible with short hair. Top-right: White text 'ily' appears between two white chevron symbols '<' on black background. Bottom-left: White numerals '3', lowercase word 'joel', and numeral '3' are stacked vertically on black background. Bottom-right: White text '<3 mchale <3' is displayed with the first '<3' above 'mchale' and second below it, all on black background.

Description

  • A pixelated image of a person holding a small dog, with text elements including 'ily', '3 joel 3', and '<3 mchale <3' on black backgrounds.

Identity Hypotheses

  • mchale

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: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070909123638293713628

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person holding dog ily
  • joel mchale <3
  • <3 mchale joel
  • dog text icon

Objects

  • dog

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four-section grid layout

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based

Subjects

  • person
  • dog

Visible Text

  • ily
  • 3
  • joel
  • mchale

Visually Supported Entities

  • mchale

Wordwall

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  • dark clothing
  • small brown dog
  • pixelated figure
  • white text
  • black background
  • chevron symbols
  • numeral 3
  • lowercase joel
  • <3 mchale
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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
20070909123638293713628
Archive entry
20070909123638293713628.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