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A split-screen image with a pixelated face on the left and red background with text on the right.

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A split-screen image with a pixelated face on the left and red background with text on the right.

A split-screen image with a pixelated face on the left and red background with text on the right. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split-screen
  • left face
  • right text

Dense Caption

Left side shows a pixelated face with light skin tone, closed eyes, and greenish hair against a dark background. Right side has a solid red background with stacked black rectangular text boxes containing white text: 'I love it', 'when', 'you smile', 'Tom', '4'. Text boxes have black borders. The image is low-resolution with visible pixelation.

Description

  • A split-screen image with a pixelated face on the left and red background with 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 topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Metadata Only Entities

  • Tom

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Tom smile text
  • I love it when you smile
  • red background text
  • pixelated face split screen

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears static

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Subjects

  • face

Visible Text

  • I love it
  • when
  • you smile
  • Tom
  • 4

Wordwall

  • split-screen
  • pixelated face
  • closed eyes
  • greenish hair
  • dark background
  • red background
  • stacked text boxes
  • white text
  • black borders
  • I love it
  • when
  • you smile
  • Tom
  • 4

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200807221654081777057437
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200807221654111358075767
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.8 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/4a/4a802d2293aaf48a506211c7be07f84940f54e6bdee8c376d3d5bd7824b4599d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 UTC
Archive ID
4a802d2293aaf48a
SHA-256
4a802d2293aaf48a506211c7be07f84940f54e6bdee8c376d3d5bd7824b4599d
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:15 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.076626

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.927075onnx/unsafe0.076626onnx/nsfw0.040514onnx/nsfl0.036111
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A split-screen image with a pixelated face on the left and red background with text on the right.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 13:46 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,569 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,193, response 684

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • dark (color, 0.80)
  • greenish (color, 0.80)
  • light skin tone (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • face (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • black
  • white
  • greenish
  • light skin tone
  • dark

Composition

  • split-screen
  • left face
  • right text

Dense Caption

Left side shows a pixelated face with light skin tone, closed eyes, and greenish hair against a dark background. Right side has a solid red background with stacked black rectangular text boxes containing white text: 'I love it', 'when', 'you smile', 'Tom', '4'. Text boxes have black borders. The image is low-resolution with visible pixelation.

Description

  • A split-screen image with a pixelated face on the left and red background with 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 topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Metadata Only Entities

  • Tom

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • affectionate
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Tom smile text
  • I love it when you smile
  • red background text
  • pixelated face split screen

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears static

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text-based

Subjects

  • face

Visible Text

  • I love it
  • when
  • you smile
  • Tom
  • 4

Wordwall

  • split-screen
  • pixelated face
  • closed eyes
  • greenish hair
  • dark background
  • red background
  • stacked text boxes
  • white text
  • black borders
  • I love it
  • when
  • you smile
  • Tom
  • 4
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Full source records (2)

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
200807221654081777057437
Archive entry
200807221654081777057437.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 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#200807221654081777057437.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200807221654081777057437.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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
200807221654111358075767
Archive entry
200807221654111358075767.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 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#200807221654111358075767.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200807221654111358075767.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016