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Pixelated cartoon characters embrace; one yellow, one blue, with text warning about hugging and being short.

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Pixelated cartoon characters embrace; one yellow, one blue, with text warning about hugging and being short.

Pixelated cartoon characters embrace; one yellow, one blue, with text warning about hugging and being short. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sh…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • two characters in embrace
  • text on right and bottom
  • faint heart shape top-left

Dense Caption

Yellow pixelated character hugs blue pixelated character from left side. Yellow character has closed eyes, rounded head, no visible clothing. Blue character has single white eye, rounded shape, appears to be embraced. Text on right panel reads "beware when you hug me." Text below reads "I am short :[". Background is light beige with faint heart shape in top-left corner. All text and characters are rendered in low-resolution pixel art style.

Description

  • Pixelated cartoon characters embrace; one yellow, one blue, with text warning about hugging and being short.

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
  • 200801071917171585311313

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow blue hug pixel art
  • beware when you hug me short face
  • hugging cartoon characters text
  • pixel art character embrace

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: text panels on right and bottom

Visible Text

  • beware when you hug me.
  • I am short :[

Wordwall

  • yellow character
  • blue character
  • hugging pose
  • closed eyes
  • single white eye
  • beware when you hug me
  • I am short :[
  • light beige background
  • faint heart shape

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200801071917171585311313
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:09 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.9 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/34/3419c42e5be63e01803cb9a8b5c7957b85a17277eb5b0717485ab3e25676eff0.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:09 UTC
Archive ID
3419c42e5be63e01
SHA-256
3419c42e5be63e01803cb9a8b5c7957b85a17277eb5b0717485ab3e25676eff0
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:38 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.087554

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated cartoon characters embrace; one yellow, one blue, with text warning about hugging and being short.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 08:45 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,919 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 671

Review tags

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  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • light beige (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • melancholic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • cartoonish (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • blue character (subject, 0.80)
  • yellow character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • hugging

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  • yellow
  • blue
  • light beige
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • two characters in embrace
  • text on right and bottom
  • faint heart shape top-left

Dense Caption

Yellow pixelated character hugs blue pixelated character from left side. Yellow character has closed eyes, rounded head, no visible clothing. Blue character has single white eye, rounded shape, appears to be embraced. Text on right panel reads "beware when you hug me." Text below reads "I am short :[". Background is light beige with faint heart shape in top-left corner. All text and characters are rendered in low-resolution pixel art style.

Description

  • Pixelated cartoon characters embrace; one yellow, one blue, with text warning about hugging and being short.

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
  • 200801071917171585311313

Mood

  • playful
  • melancholic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • beware when you hug me short face
  • hugging cartoon characters text
  • pixel art character embrace

Preprocessing Notes

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Style

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  • low-resolution
  • cartoonish

Subjects

  • yellow character
  • blue character

Visible Text

  • beware when you hug me.
  • I am short :[

Wordwall

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  • blue character
  • hugging pose
  • closed eyes
  • single white eye
  • beware when you hug me
  • I am short :[
  • light beige background
  • faint heart shape
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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
200801071917171585311313
Archive entry
200801071917171585311313.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:09 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#200801071917171585311313.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200801071917171585311313.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016