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six pixelated images showing people in various poses and a purple banner with red text reading "what would i do w/o u"

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • six
  • varied backgrounds

Dense Caption

Top row left: person wearing dark headscarf covering face partially, light background. Top row middle: person with short brown hair, glasses, red top under beige jacket, neutral expression. Top row right: person in dark shirt, light background. Bottom row left: two people embracing indoors near window. Bottom row center: purple banner with red text "what would i do w/o u" over small group photo. Bottom row right: empty gray space.

Description

  • six pixelated images showing people in various poses and a purple banner with red text reading "what would i do w/o u"

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: historical-archive

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • people with headscarf glasses red top
  • purple banner text what would i do w/o u
  • embrace window background group photo

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be a static contact sheet with no visible animation frames
  • quarantined description: A grid of six pixelated images showing people in various poses and a purple banner with red text reading "what would i do w/o u".
  • quarantined composition: six panels
  • quarantined composition: grid layout

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

  • what would i do w/o u

Visually Supported Entities

  • people in various poses
  • group photo on banner

Wordwall

  • dark headscarf
  • glasses
  • red top
  • beige jacket
  • purple banner
  • red text
  • embrace
  • window background
  • small group photo

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200801141306091127546291
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:10 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
7.9 KB
Motion
Animated (5 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/38/38ebde7a7ac5c7c2737224e69645719aa83387ff5d70b545f25707cdaa285aca.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:10 UTC
Archive ID
38ebde7a7ac5c7c2
SHA-256
38ebde7a7ac5c7c2737224e69645719aa83387ff5d70b545f25707cdaa285aca
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 31, 2026 at 10:31 UTC
Run
1249
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.020752

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:43 UTC
Run
105
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:43 UTC
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107
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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six pixelated images showing people in various poses and a purple banner with red text reading "what would i do w/o u"

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 10:25 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,407 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,167, response 707

Review tags

  • covering face (action, 0.80)
  • embracing (action, 0.80)
  • standing (action, 0.80)
  • glasses (object, 0.80)
  • headscarf (object, 0.80)
  • jacket (object, 0.80)
  • text banner (object, 0.80)
  • grainy (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • group photo (subject, 0.80)
  • people (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • covering face
  • embracing
  • standing

Colors

  • dark blue
  • red
  • beige
  • purple
  • gray
  • light brown

Composition

  • six
  • varied backgrounds

Dense Caption

Top row left: person wearing dark headscarf covering face partially, light background. Top row middle: person with short brown hair, glasses, red top under beige jacket, neutral expression. Top row right: person in dark shirt, light background. Bottom row left: two people embracing indoors near window. Bottom row center: purple banner with red text "what would i do w/o u" over small group photo. Bottom row right: empty gray space.

Description

  • six pixelated images showing people in various poses and a purple banner with red text reading "what would i do w/o u"

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: historical-archive

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral
  • affectionate

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • people with headscarf glasses red top
  • purple banner text what would i do w/o u
  • embrace window background group photo

Objects

  • headscarf
  • glasses
  • jacket
  • text banner

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be a static contact sheet with no visible animation frames
  • quarantined description: A grid of six pixelated images showing people in various poses and a purple banner with red text reading "what would i do w/o u".
  • quarantined composition: six panels
  • quarantined composition: grid layout

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
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  • grainy

Subjects

  • people
  • group photo

Visible Text

  • what would i do w/o u

Visually Supported Entities

  • people in various poses
  • group photo on banner

Wordwall

  • dark headscarf
  • glasses
  • red top
  • beige jacket
  • purple banner
  • red text
  • embrace
  • window background
  • small group photo
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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
200801141306091127546291
Archive entry
200801141306091127546291.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:10 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#200801141306091127546291.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200801141306091127546291.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016