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Two side-by-side pixelated images display identical text and layout with differing background content.

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Two side-by-side pixelated images display identical text and layout with differing background content.

Two side-by-side pixelated images display identical text and layout with differing background content. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared B…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered text
  • central emblem on left
  • background scene on right

Dense Caption

Left image: dark background. Blue text 'i LUV' at top, blue text 'Americon' across middle, blue text 'Idol' at bottom. Oval silver emblem in center contains white stylized 'American Idol' logo. Right image: grayscale background shows two people seated at a table with microphones and papers; one person holds a microphone near their mouth. Blue text 'i LUV', 'Americon', and 'Idol' identical to left image.

Description

  • Two side-by-side pixelated images display identical text and layout with differing background content.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Named Entities

  • American Idol

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i LUV Americon Idol
  • American Idol pixelated icon
  • grayscale American Idol image
  • blue text i LUV Americon Idol

Style

  • text overlay

Visible Text

  • i LUV
  • Americon
  • Idol

Visually Supported Entities

  • American Idol

Wordwall

  • blue text
  • 'i LUV'
  • 'Americon'
  • 'Idol'
  • oval silver emblem
  • stylized white logo
  • grayscale background
  • two people seated
  • microphones on table

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200804190658211140672694
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:23 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.1 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/32/32c421ff90cab486dc9d05c085f0602c283d3076b3a36bb49356e2eca59a233a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:23 UTC
Archive ID
32c421ff90cab486
SHA-256
32c421ff90cab486dc9d05c085f0602c283d3076b3a36bb49356e2eca59a233a
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:36 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.137738

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Two side-by-side pixelated images display identical text and layout with differing background content.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 05:50 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
13,890 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,146, response 554

Review tags

  • holding microphone near mouth (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • silver (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • microphone (object, 0.80)
  • papers (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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  • text overlay (style, 0.80)
  • microphones (subject, 0.80)
  • people (subject, 0.80)
  • table (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding microphone near mouth

Colors

  • blue
  • silver
  • white
  • gray
  • black

Composition

  • centered text
  • central emblem on left
  • background scene on right

Dense Caption

Left image: dark background. Blue text 'i LUV' at top, blue text 'Americon' across middle, blue text 'Idol' at bottom. Oval silver emblem in center contains white stylized 'American Idol' logo. Right image: grayscale background shows two people seated at a table with microphones and papers; one person holds a microphone near their mouth. Blue text 'i LUV', 'Americon', and 'Idol' identical to left image.

Description

  • Two side-by-side pixelated images display identical text and layout with differing background content.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Named Entities

  • American Idol

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i LUV Americon Idol
  • American Idol pixelated icon
  • grayscale American Idol image
  • blue text i LUV Americon Idol

Objects

  • microphone
  • table
  • papers

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text overlay

Subjects

  • people
  • microphones
  • table

Visible Text

  • i LUV
  • Americon
  • Idol

Visually Supported Entities

  • American Idol

Wordwall

  • blue text
  • 'i LUV'
  • 'Americon'
  • 'Idol'
  • oval silver emblem
  • stylized white logo
  • grayscale background
  • two people seated
  • microphones on table
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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
200804190658211140672694
Archive entry
200804190658211140672694.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:23 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#200804190658211140672694.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200804190658211140672694.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016