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Black and white pixel art with text fragments and a smiley face on white rectangular backgrounds against a black backdrop.

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Black and white pixel art with text fragments and a smiley face on white rectangular backgrounds against a black backdrop.

Black and white pixel art with text fragments and a smiley face on white rectangular backgrounds against a black backdrop. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four white rectangles on black background
  • text fragments in top-left and top-right
  • smiley face in bottom-left
  • overlapping rectangles in bottom-right

Dense Caption

Black background with four white rectangular shapes. Top-left rectangle contains pixelated text 'i love noah'. Top-right rectangle contains pixelated text 'noah+alyss'. Bottom-left rectangle contains pixelated smiley face '=<3'. Bottom-right area has two overlapping white rectangles. All text and symbols are rendered in a low-resolution, monochrome pixel art style with no visible animation.

Description

  • Black and white pixel art with text fragments and a smiley face on white rectangular backgrounds against a black backdrop.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i love noah noah+alyss
  • noah+alyss smiley face
  • i love noah smiley face
  • pixel art text fragments

Visible Text

  • i love noah
  • noah+alyss
  • =<3

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white rectangles
  • pixelated text
  • i love noah
  • noah+alyss
  • =<3
  • smiley face
  • low-resolution
  • monochrome
  • text fragments

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
201007181213011771648245
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:06 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
502 bytes
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/4d/4d21a3260e49dc076bdde4d2dd8003c0f22ad8262cf0a5dfca819855688e39c8.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:06 UTC
Archive ID
4d21a3260e49dc07
SHA-256
4d21a3260e49dc076bdde4d2dd8003c0f22ad8262cf0a5dfca819855688e39c8
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 26, 2026 at 20:06 UTC
Run
1349
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.002722

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 29, 2026 at 19:08 UTC
Run
1245
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:17 UTC
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1033
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OpenAI category scores

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

Black and white pixel art with text fragments and a smiley face on white rectangular backgrounds against a black backdrop.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 20:02 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,172 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,167, response 669

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • monochrome (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white

Composition

  • four white rectangles on black background
  • text fragments in top-left and top-right
  • smiley face in bottom-left
  • overlapping rectangles in bottom-right

Dense Caption

Black background with four white rectangular shapes. Top-left rectangle contains pixelated text 'i love noah'. Top-right rectangle contains pixelated text 'noah+alyss'. Bottom-left rectangle contains pixelated smiley face '=<3'. Bottom-right area has two overlapping white rectangles. All text and symbols are rendered in a low-resolution, monochrome pixel art style with no visible animation.

Description

  • Black and white pixel art with text fragments and a smiley face on white rectangular backgrounds against a black backdrop.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i love noah noah+alyss
  • noah+alyss smiley face
  • i love noah smiley face
  • pixel art text fragments

Style

  • pixel art
  • monochrome
  • low-resolution

Visible Text

  • i love noah
  • noah+alyss
  • =<3

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white rectangles
  • pixelated text
  • i love noah
  • noah+alyss
  • =<3
  • smiley face
  • low-resolution
  • monochrome
  • text fragments
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 22:57 UTC
Run
61
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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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
201007181213011771648245
Archive entry
201007181213011771648245.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:06 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#201007181213011771648245.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#201007181213011771648245.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016