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A four- of pixelated images: top-left text, top-right person, bottom-left couple, bottom-right blank

A four- of pixelated images: top-left text, top-right person, bottom-left couple, bottom-right blank. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bu…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • square
  • text and figures

Dense Caption

Top-left panel: black background with green text 'my cause' above white text 'WRITE LOVE ON HER ARMS.' Top-right panel: light blue background with a person with short reddish-brown hair and closed eyes; red text 'my hero' below. Bottom-left panel: white background with pink stick figures holding hands under a pink heart; blue text '<3 love' below. Bottom-right panel: solid gray background. All panels are square and arranged in a 2x2 grid.

Description

  • A four- of pixelated images: top-left text, top-right person, bottom-left couple, bottom-right blank

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • my cause write love on her arms my hero <3 love
  • text my cause write love on her arms
  • text my hero
  • text <3 love
  • pink stick figures heart
  • text
  • black green white red blue pink gray
  • pixelated text-heavy

Objects

  • heart

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A four-panel grid of pixelated images: top-left text, top-right person, bottom-left couple, bottom-right blank.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: square panels
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated text-heavy grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid text

Visible Text

  • my cause
  • WRITE LOVE ON HER ARMS.
  • my hero
  • <3 love

Wordwall

  • black background
  • green text
  • white text
  • red text
  • blue text
  • pink stick figures
  • pink heart
  • gray background
  • closed eyes
  • short hair
  • holding hands
  • text 'my cause'
  • text 'WRITE LOVE ON HER ARMS.'
  • text 'my hero'
  • text '<3 love'

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200809291501461139317840
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
4.1 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/30/30f65649b86f6145a1ef37a4a369e1a7f147e9652c8eb94458986155bbd3c6f1.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC
Archive ID
30f65649b86f6145
SHA-256
30f65649b86f6145a1ef37a4a369e1a7f147e9652c8eb94458986155bbd3c6f1
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 2, 2026 at 04:16 UTC
Run
1254
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000533

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:34 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.366786

OpenAI category scores

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A four- of pixelated images: top-left text, top-right person, bottom-left couple, bottom-right blank

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 02:14 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,525 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,116, response 748

Review tags

  • closed eyes (action, 0.80)
  • holding hands (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • sentimental (mood, 0.80)
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  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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  • text heavy (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)
  • stick figures (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding hands
  • closed eyes

Colors

  • black
  • green
  • white
  • red
  • blue
  • pink
  • gray
  • light blue

Composition

  • square
  • text and figures

Dense Caption

Top-left panel: black background with green text 'my cause' above white text 'WRITE LOVE ON HER ARMS.' Top-right panel: light blue background with a person with short reddish-brown hair and closed eyes; red text 'my hero' below. Bottom-left panel: white background with pink stick figures holding hands under a pink heart; blue text '<3 love' below. Bottom-right panel: solid gray background. All panels are square and arranged in a 2x2 grid.

Description

  • A four- of pixelated images: top-left text, top-right person, bottom-left couple, bottom-right blank

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • sentimental
  • affectionate

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • my cause write love on her arms my hero <3 love
  • text my cause write love on her arms
  • text my hero
  • text <3 love
  • pink stick figures heart
  • text
  • black green white red blue pink gray
  • pixelated text-heavy

Objects

  • heart
  • text

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined composition: square panels
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated text-heavy grid
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Style

  • pixelated
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  • text-heavy

Subjects

  • person
  • stick figures

Visible Text

  • my cause
  • WRITE LOVE ON HER ARMS.
  • my hero
  • <3 love

Wordwall

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  • green text
  • white text
  • red text
  • blue text
  • pink stick figures
  • pink heart
  • gray background
  • closed eyes
  • short hair
  • holding hands
  • text 'my cause'
  • text 'WRITE LOVE ON HER ARMS.'
  • text 'my hero'
  • text '<3 love'
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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
200809291501461139317840
Archive entry
200809291501461139317840.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 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#200809291501461139317840.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200809291501461139317840.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016