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Pixelated image with four quadrants: top-left shows partial striped fabric and pink object, top-right displays green text on magenta background, bottom-left has green text on magenta background, bottom-right is solid gray.

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Pixelated image with four quadrants: top-left shows partial striped fabric and pink object, top-right displays green text on magenta background, bottom-left has green text on magenta background, bottom-right is solid gray.

Pixelated image with four quadrants: top-left shows partial striped fabric and pink object, top-right displays green text on magenta background, bottom-left has green text on mage…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • quadrant layout
  • text and abstract shapes

Dense Caption

The icon consists of a 2x2 grid layout. Top-left quadrant contains pixelated sections of black-and-white vertical stripes, bright orange, yellow, and pink shapes with partial white circular patterns visible. Top-right quadrant features green pixelated text 'even though we don't match ...' on solid magenta background. Bottom-left quadrant displays green pixelated text 'we will always be... together <3' on solid magenta background. Bottom-right quadrant is a uniform gray square. All elements are rendered in low-resolution, blocky pixels typical of early digital graphics.

Description

Pixelated image with four quadrants: top-left shows partial striped fabric and pink object, top-right displays green text on magenta background, bottom-left has green text on magenta background, bottom-right is solid gray.

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
  • 20071105094603252730447

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • magenta background green text pixelated
  • even though we don't match together <3
  • low-resolution icon
  • sentimental buddy icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: low-resolution 2x2 grid icon

Visible Text

  • even though we don't match ...
  • we will always be... together <3

Wordwall

  • black-and-white vertical stripes
  • magenta background
  • green pixelated text
  • orange and yellow shapes
  • pink object
  • gray square
  • low-resolution pixels
  • text 'even though we don't match ...'
  • text 'we will always be... together <3'

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071105094603252730447
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:53 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.7 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/35/351440310c3adce0f6d1e97215234901f6786ad627fa625b9773715525a91031.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:53 UTC
Archive ID
351440310c3adce0
SHA-256
351440310c3adce0f6d1e97215234901f6786ad627fa625b9773715525a91031
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:15 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.115701

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image with four quadrants: top-left shows partial striped fabric and pink object, top-right displays green text on magenta background, bottom-left has green text on magenta background, bottom-right is solid gray.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 15:22 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,291 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 740

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • magenta (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • sentimental (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky graphics (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • magenta
  • green
  • gray
  • black
  • white
  • orange
  • yellow
  • pink

Composition

  • quadrant layout
  • text and abstract shapes

Dense Caption

The icon consists of a 2x2 grid layout. Top-left quadrant contains pixelated sections of black-and-white vertical stripes, bright orange, yellow, and pink shapes with partial white circular patterns visible. Top-right quadrant features green pixelated text 'even though we don't match ...' on solid magenta background. Bottom-left quadrant displays green pixelated text 'we will always be... together <3' on solid magenta background. Bottom-right quadrant is a uniform gray square. All elements are rendered in low-resolution, blocky pixels typical of early digital graphics.

Description

Pixelated image with four quadrants: top-left shows partial striped fabric and pink object, top-right displays green text on magenta background, bottom-left has green text on magenta background, bottom-right is solid gray.

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
  • 20071105094603252730447

Mood

  • sentimental
  • affectionate

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • magenta background green text pixelated
  • even though we don't match together <3
  • low-resolution icon
  • sentimental buddy icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: low-resolution 2x2 grid icon

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky graphics

Visible Text

  • even though we don't match ...
  • we will always be... together <3

Wordwall

  • black-and-white vertical stripes
  • magenta background
  • green pixelated text
  • orange and yellow shapes
  • pink object
  • gray square
  • low-resolution pixels
  • text 'even though we don't match ...'
  • text 'we will always be... together <3'
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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
20071105094603252730447
Archive entry
20071105094603252730447.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:53 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#20071105094603252730447.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071105094603252730447.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016