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A pixelated image of a person in dark clothing with white collar, head tilted left, text "i love josh" at bottom left.

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A pixelated image of a person in dark clothing with white collar, head tilted left, text "i love josh" at bottom left.

A pixelated image of a person in dark clothing with white collar, head tilted left, text "i love josh" at bottom left. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fran…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered subject
  • text bottom-left
  • small symbol top-right

Dense Caption

Pixelated image shows a person wearing dark jacket over white collared shirt. Head is tilted left and eyes are closed. Background has light vertical stripes. Text "i love josh" appears in blue pixel font at bottom left corner. A small dark blue heart symbol is visible in top right corner. The image exhibits low-resolution digital rendering with blocky pixels.

Description

  • A pixelated image of a person in dark clothing with white collar, head tilted left, text "i love josh" at bottom left.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Named Entities

  • josh

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person wearing dark jacket white collar
  • i love josh text heart symbol
  • pixelated image blue text
  • tilted head closed eyes light stripes background

Objects

  • heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected in single frame provided

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Visible Text

  • i love josh

Visually Supported Entities

  • josh

Wordwall

  • person
  • dark jacket
  • white collar
  • tilted head
  • closed eyes
  • light stripes background
  • blue text "i love josh"
  • small heart symbol

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200812261415151039812049
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
4.2 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/31/319759b5328d09131f041d59c025d930bd6ba2b27abe12bd586200b9f277bccd.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 UTC
Archive ID
319759b5328d0913
SHA-256
319759b5328d09131f041d59c025d930bd6ba2b27abe12bd586200b9f277bccd
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:35 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.087689

OpenAI category scores

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A pixelated image of a person in dark clothing with white collar, head tilted left, text "i love josh" at bottom left.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 15:26 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,069 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,146, response 687

Review tags

  • eyes closed (action, 0.80)
  • head tilted left (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution digital rendering (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • head tilted left
  • eyes closed

Colors

  • dark blue
  • white
  • light gray
  • blue

Composition

  • centered subject
  • text bottom-left
  • small symbol top-right

Dense Caption

Pixelated image shows a person wearing dark jacket over white collared shirt. Head is tilted left and eyes are closed. Background has light vertical stripes. Text "i love josh" appears in blue pixel font at bottom left corner. A small dark blue heart symbol is visible in top right corner. The image exhibits low-resolution digital rendering with blocky pixels.

Description

  • A pixelated image of a person in dark clothing with white collar, head tilted left, text "i love josh" at bottom left.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • affectionate

Named Entities

  • josh

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person wearing dark jacket white collar
  • i love josh text heart symbol
  • pixelated image blue text
  • tilted head closed eyes light stripes background

Objects

  • heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected in single frame provided

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution digital rendering

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • i love josh

Visually Supported Entities

  • josh

Wordwall

  • person
  • dark jacket
  • white collar
  • tilted head
  • closed eyes
  • light stripes background
  • blue text "i love josh"
  • small heart symbol
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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
200812261415151039812049
Archive entry
200812261415151039812049.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 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#200812261415151039812049.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200812261415151039812049.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016