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A split-screen image shows a person's profile on the left and text on the right.

A split-screen image shows a person's profile on the left and text on the right. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2000…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split-screen left-right
  • person on left, text on right

Dense Caption

Left side: A pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair tied back, wearing small earrings and a thin necklace. Right side: Bright blue background with green-outlined white text reading "i<3u so much!" in two lines; the heart symbol is formed by '<3'. The image has low resolution typical of early 2000s digital art.

Description

  • A split-screen image shows a person's profile on the left and 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i<3u so much
  • pixelated person blue background
  • <3 heart symbol text
  • earrings necklace profile

Visible Text

  • i<3u so much!

Visually Supported Entities

  • person (profile)

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • dark hair tied back
  • small earrings
  • thin necklace
  • bright blue background
  • green-outlined white text
  • <3 heart symbol
  • i<3u so much!
  • two-line text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081111182459833105731
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC
Archive ID
5aff1fa4767b8399
SHA-256
5aff1fa4767b839916674ffed22e78955fc44aff404d9085302a8da5d16aec24
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 18, 2026 at 10:03 UTC
Run
1312
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.010268

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 30, 2026 at 01:52 UTC
Run
1245
Input
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Preprocessing
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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 16:33 UTC
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1039
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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A split-screen image shows a person's profile on the left and text on the right.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 08:24 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,523 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,140, response 579

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • dark brown (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • earrings (object, 0.80)
  • necklace (object, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution digital art (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person profile (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • green
  • white
  • dark brown
  • black

Composition

  • split-screen left-right
  • person on left, text on right

Dense Caption

Left side: A pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair tied back, wearing small earrings and a thin necklace. Right side: Bright blue background with green-outlined white text reading "i<3u so much!" in two lines; the heart symbol is formed by '<3'. The image has low resolution typical of early 2000s digital art.

Description

  • A split-screen image shows a person's profile on the left and 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

Mood

  • affectionate
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i<3u so much
  • pixelated person blue background
  • <3 heart symbol text
  • earrings necklace profile

Objects

  • earrings
  • necklace
  • text

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution digital art

Subjects

  • person (profile)

Visible Text

  • i<3u so much!

Visually Supported Entities

  • person (profile)

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • dark hair tied back
  • small earrings
  • thin necklace
  • bright blue background
  • green-outlined white text
  • <3 heart symbol
  • i<3u so much!
  • two-line text
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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
20081111182459833105731
Archive entry
20081111182459833105731.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 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#20081111182459833105731.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081111182459833105731.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016