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Three grayscale show people in different poses with a black section containing pixelated text below

Three grayscale show people in different poses with a black section containing pixelated text below. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bud…

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Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static image with no visible motion changes across observations

Composition

  • three stacked horizontally above solid black section

Dense Caption

Top-left panel: two figures, one raising hand; top-middle panel: three figures, central figure holding object; top-right panel: two figures embracing; bottom section: solid black background with white pixelated text reading "XMA and B bbye lover"; all panels grayscale, low-resolution, grainy texture.

Description

  • Three grayscale show people in different poses with a black section containing pixelated text below

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.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200802211215421676071768

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale people text XMA and B bbye lover
  • three two figures raising hand
  • low-resolution pixelated black background text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Three grayscale panels show people in different poses with a black section containing pixelated text below.
  • quarantined wordwall: three panels
  • quarantined composition: three panels stacked horizontally above solid black section
  • quarantined retrieval: three panels two figures raising hand
  • quarantined retrieval: grayscale people panels text XMA and B bbye lover

Visible Text

  • XMA and B bbye lover

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • three
  • two figures
  • one raising hand
  • three figures
  • central figure holding object
  • two figures embracing
  • solid black background
  • pixelated text
  • "XMA and B bbye lover"
  • low-resolution
  • grainy texture

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200802211215421676071768
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:15 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
5.3 KB
Motion
Animated (5 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/2b/2b425240f332036ca4db63d226cc9a4365ba181eb6518a0c693ca560d73f4eac.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:15 UTC
Archive ID
2b425240f332036c
SHA-256
2b425240f332036ca4db63d226cc9a4365ba181eb6518a0c693ca560d73f4eac
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 4, 2026 at 01:26 UTC
Run
1262
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.019991

OpenAI category scores

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 29, 2026 at 09:54 UTC
Run
1245
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.035962

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagsexual0.035962falseviolence0.016269falseviolence/graphic0.001567falseself-harm0.000565falseself-harm/intent0.000221falseself-harm/instructions0.000004falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:29 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.539235

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Three grayscale show people in different poses with a black section containing pixelated text below

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 01:20 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,691 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,168, response 638

Review tags

  • embracing (action, 0.80)
  • holding object (action, 0.80)
  • raising hand (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • object held by central figure (object, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • people (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • raising hand
  • holding object
  • embracing

Animation

  • static image with no visible motion changes across observations

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • three stacked horizontally above solid black section

Dense Caption

Top-left panel: two figures, one raising hand; top-middle panel: three figures, central figure holding object; top-right panel: two figures embracing; bottom section: solid black background with white pixelated text reading "XMA and B bbye lover"; all panels grayscale, low-resolution, grainy texture.

Description

  • Three grayscale show people in different poses with a black section containing pixelated text below

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.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200802211215421676071768

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale people text XMA and B bbye lover
  • three two figures raising hand
  • low-resolution pixelated black background text

Objects

  • object held by central figure

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Three grayscale panels show people in different poses with a black section containing pixelated text below.
  • quarantined wordwall: three panels
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  • quarantined retrieval: three panels two figures raising hand
  • quarantined retrieval: grayscale people panels text XMA and B bbye lover

Style

  • grayscale
  • low-resolution
  • pixelated

Subjects

  • people

Visible Text

  • XMA and B bbye lover

Wordwall

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  • three
  • two figures
  • one raising hand
  • three figures
  • central figure holding object
  • two figures embracing
  • solid black background
  • pixelated text
  • "XMA and B bbye lover"
  • low-resolution
  • grainy texture
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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
200802211215421676071768
Archive entry
200802211215421676071768.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:15 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#200802211215421676071768.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200802211215421676071768.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016