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Red background with white pixelated text reading "Sam loves Brian" in two identical vertical

Red background with white pixelated text reading "Sam loves Brian" in two identical vertical. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icon…

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Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • two identical vertical
  • text-centered
  • symmetrical

Dense Caption

Red background with white pixelated text. Text reads "Sam loves Brian" in two identical vertical columns. Each column contains three lines: "Sam" on top, "loves" in the middle, "Brian" at the bottom. All text is rendered in a blocky, low-resolution pixel art style. The image is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Red background with white pixelated text reading "Sam loves Brian" in two identical vertical

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

  • Sam loves Brian
  • red background white text
  • pixel art text
  • two vertical

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Red background with white pixelated text reading "Sam loves Brian" in two identical vertical columns.
  • quarantined wordwall: three lines per column
  • quarantined wordwall: two identical vertical columns
  • quarantined composition: two identical vertical columns
  • quarantined retrieval: two vertical columns

Visible Text

  • Sam
  • loves
  • Brian

Wordwall

  • red background
  • white pixelated text
  • Sam
  • loves
  • Brian
  • two identical vertical
  • three lines per
  • blocky pixel art style

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081107091825495730484
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
199 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/4c/4c612db2905dbfabf267f433e1e3086f4b74083ad7aad66a61c4bff20452782f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 UTC
Archive ID
4c612db2905dbfab
SHA-256
4c612db2905dbfabf267f433e1e3086f4b74083ad7aad66a61c4bff20452782f
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:16 UTC
Run
1033
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.104421

OpenAI category scores

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Red background with white pixelated text reading "Sam loves Brian" in two identical vertical

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 07:28 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,252 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,142, response 611

Review tags

  • loves (action, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • brian (subject, 0.80)
  • sam (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • loves

Colors

  • red
  • white

Composition

  • two identical vertical
  • text-centered
  • symmetrical

Dense Caption

Red background with white pixelated text. Text reads "Sam loves Brian" in two identical vertical columns. Each column contains three lines: "Sam" on top, "loves" in the middle, "Brian" at the bottom. All text is rendered in a blocky, low-resolution pixel art style. The image is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Red background with white pixelated text reading "Sam loves Brian" in two identical vertical

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

  • Sam loves Brian
  • red background white text
  • pixel art text
  • two vertical

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Red background with white pixelated text reading "Sam loves Brian" in two identical vertical columns.
  • quarantined wordwall: three lines per column
  • quarantined wordwall: two identical vertical columns
  • quarantined composition: two identical vertical columns
  • quarantined retrieval: two vertical columns

Style

  • pixel art
  • blocky
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • Sam
  • Brian

Visible Text

  • Sam
  • loves
  • Brian

Wordwall

  • red background
  • white pixelated text
  • Sam
  • loves
  • Brian
  • two identical vertical
  • three lines per
  • blocky pixel art style
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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
20081107091825495730484
Archive entry
20081107091825495730484.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 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#20081107091825495730484.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081107091825495730484.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016