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A split-screen image with a pixelated close-up of a person on the left and red background with black text on the right.

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A split-screen image with a pixelated close-up of a person on the left and red background with black text on the right.

A split-screen image with a pixelated close-up of a person on the left and red background with black text on the right. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fra…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split-screen
  • left close-up
  • right text

Dense Caption

Left side shows a pixelated close-up of a person with light skin, dark hair, and visible eyes and lips; right side features a solid red background with black text reading "I LOVE YOU" in a stylized font; the image has a low-resolution, pixelated appearance typical of early 2000s digital graphics; the person's face is partially obscured by vertical lines; the text uses a blocky, pixelated typeface with some characters showing incomplete or distorted pixels.

Description

  • A split-screen image with a pixelated close-up of a person on the left and red background with black text on the right.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person red background I LOVE YOU
  • split-screen affectionate text
  • low-resolution I LOVE YOU graphic
  • red background pixelated text

Visible Text

  • I
  • LOVE
  • YOU

Wordwall

  • pixelated close-up
  • light skin
  • dark hair
  • red background
  • black text
  • I LOVE YOU
  • stylized font
  • vertical lines
  • low-resolution
  • early 2000s graphics

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070815140054209353996
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/40/40604fb2b0db0dc90a2e9adc97a48a7dea420e82a22cb0c13748fcd0bec980f8.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 UTC
Archive ID
40604fb2b0db0dc9
SHA-256
40604fb2b0db0dc90a2e9adc97a48a7dea420e82a22cb0c13748fcd0bec980f8
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 26, 2026 at 00:06 UTC
Run
1343
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.021298

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagsexual0.021298falseself-harm0.000472falseself-harm/intent0.000213falseharassment0.000086falseviolence/graphic0.000024falseviolence0.000022falsesexual/minors0.000017falseillicit0.000006falsehate0.000006falseharassment/threatening0.000005falseself-harm/instructions0.000001falseillicit/violent0.000001falsehate/threatening0.000000false

Qwen scheduling evidence

Evidence strength is retained for queueing and audit. It does not set the public content-safety verdict.

EvidenceStrengthInputenrichment/visual/violence0.500000image
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:51 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.090016

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A split-screen image with a pixelated close-up of a person on the left and red background with black text on the right.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 00:03 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,833 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,140, response 615

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • dark hair (color, 0.80)
  • light skin (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • stylized font (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • black
  • light skin
  • dark hair

Composition

  • split-screen
  • left close-up
  • right text

Dense Caption

Left side shows a pixelated close-up of a person with light skin, dark hair, and visible eyes and lips; right side features a solid red background with black text reading "I LOVE YOU" in a stylized font; the image has a low-resolution, pixelated appearance typical of early 2000s digital graphics; the person's face is partially obscured by vertical lines; the text uses a blocky, pixelated typeface with some characters showing incomplete or distorted pixels.

Description

  • A split-screen image with a pixelated close-up of a person on the left and red background with black text on the right.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • affectionate

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person red background I LOVE YOU
  • split-screen affectionate text
  • low-resolution I LOVE YOU graphic
  • red background pixelated text

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • stylized font

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • I
  • LOVE
  • YOU

Wordwall

  • pixelated close-up
  • light skin
  • dark hair
  • red background
  • black text
  • I LOVE YOU
  • stylized font
  • vertical lines
  • low-resolution
  • early 2000s graphics
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 11:45 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
20070815140054209353996
Archive entry
20070815140054209353996.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 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#20070815140054209353996.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070815140054209353996.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016