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Two people with brown hair and sunglasses pose together in a pixelated image with pink text overlays.

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Two people with brown hair and sunglasses pose together in a pixelated image with pink text overlays.

Two people with brown hair and sunglasses pose together in a pixelated image with pink text overlays. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bu…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • text changes: 'ash&skate' → '<3' → 'bff'

Animation Summary

  • Text overlays change sequentially: 'ash&skate' appears top-left, then '<3' appears top-right, then 'bff' appears center-left.

Composition

  • close-up
  • two people side-by-side
  • text overlays

Dense Caption

Two individuals with light brown hair and dark sunglasses pose closely together in a pixelated image. The person on the right wears a dark red top. Pink text overlays appear in different positions across observations: 'ash&skate' at top-left in the first observation, '<3' at top-right in the second observation, and 'bff' at center-left in the third observation. The background is a solid dark purple. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated rendering style typical of early 2000s digital imagery.

Description

  • Two people with brown hair and sunglasses pose together in a pixelated image with pink text overlays.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200708131823581091810242

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • ash&skate bff
  • sunglasses brown hair
  • dark red top pixelated
  • pink text dark purple background

Preprocessing Notes

  • image contains a grid of three observations showing text changes

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata about the image's origin and context

Visible Text

  • ash&skate
  • <3
  • bff

Wordwall

  • two people
  • brown hair
  • sunglasses
  • dark red top
  • pink text
  • pixelated
  • dark purple background
  • ash&skate
  • <3
  • bff

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708131823581091810242
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
5.1 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/47/47e441befc366741c4bd050f9b09d8a840cc9a645ea7b9646be99b1d3488c47d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 UTC
Archive ID
47e441befc366741
SHA-256
47e441befc366741c4bd050f9b09d8a840cc9a645ea7b9646be99b1d3488c47d
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 25, 2026 at 23:16 UTC
Run
1343
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.020505

OpenAI category scores

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:59 UTC
Run
105
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.097317

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagsexual0.097317falseviolence0.010141falseself-harm0.000541falseself-harm/intent0.000235falseself-harm/instructions0.000214falseviolence/graphic0.000041falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:58 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
nsfw
Overall score
0.935413

OpenAI category scores

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

Two people with brown hair and sunglasses pose together in a pixelated image with pink text overlays.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 23:12 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,494 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 777

Review tags

  • posing (action, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark red (color, 0.80)
  • casual (mood, 0.80)
  • friendly (mood, 0.80)
  • early 2000s digital (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • brown hair (subject, 0.80)
  • dark red top (subject, 0.80)
  • sunglasses (subject, 0.80)
  • two people (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • posing

Animation

  • text changes: 'ash&skate' → '<3' → 'bff'

Animation Summary

  • Text overlays change sequentially: 'ash&skate' appears top-left, then '<3' appears top-right, then 'bff' appears center-left.

Colors

  • brown
  • dark red
  • pink
  • dark purple
  • white

Composition

  • close-up
  • two people side-by-side
  • text overlays

Dense Caption

Two individuals with light brown hair and dark sunglasses pose closely together in a pixelated image. The person on the right wears a dark red top. Pink text overlays appear in different positions across observations: 'ash&skate' at top-left in the first observation, '<3' at top-right in the second observation, and 'bff' at center-left in the third observation. The background is a solid dark purple. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated rendering style typical of early 2000s digital imagery.

Description

  • Two people with brown hair and sunglasses pose together in a pixelated image with pink text overlays.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200708131823581091810242

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Mood

  • friendly
  • casual

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • ash&skate bff
  • sunglasses brown hair
  • dark red top pixelated
  • pink text dark purple background

Objects

  • sunglasses
  • dark red top

Preprocessing Notes

  • image contains a grid of three observations showing text changes

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata about the image's origin and context

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • early 2000s digital

Subjects

  • two people
  • brown hair
  • sunglasses
  • dark red top

Visible Text

  • ash&skate
  • <3
  • bff

Wordwall

  • two people
  • brown hair
  • sunglasses
  • dark red top
  • pink text
  • pixelated
  • dark purple background
  • ash&skate
  • <3
  • bff
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 11:31 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)
Raw JSON
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
200708131823581091810242
Archive entry
200708131823581091810242.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#200708131823581091810242.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708131823581091810242.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016