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A static image of a shoe with a cartoon couple under a heart, overlaid by red text reading "Doug".

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A static image of a shoe with a cartoon couple under a heart, overlaid by red text reading "Doug".

A static image of a shoe with a cartoon couple under a heart, overlaid by red text reading "Doug". Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered text overlay
  • shoe occupies most of frame

Dense Caption

The image shows the top portion of a white and maroon sneaker. On the upper white section, there is a small red heart above two black-and-white cartoon figures resembling a couple holding hands. The shoe has visible laces and a dark stripe along its edge. A large red text overlay reading "Doug" with a black outline appears across the center of the image.

Description

  • A static image of a shoe with a cartoon couple under a heart, overlaid by red text reading "Doug".

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

  • shoe cartoon couple heart
  • red text Doug sneaker
  • maroon white shoe red heart
  • cartoon figures holding hands

Objects

  • heart

Style

  • cartoon

Subjects

  • heart
  • couple

Visible Text

  • Doug

Visually Supported Entities

  • Doug

Wordwall

  • sneaker
  • red heart
  • cartoon couple
  • black-and-white figures
  • white upper
  • maroon section
  • laces
  • text overlay
  • red lettering

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080424125249633314192
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:24 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
4.3 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/5f/5fb6d7a0fc5fa4c91a1b375c4ae61557531df0a6420b56a830cf1ea80a643898.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:24 UTC
Archive ID
5fb6d7a0fc5fa4c9
SHA-256
5fb6d7a0fc5fa4c91a1b375c4ae61557531df0a6420b56a830cf1ea80a643898
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:38 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.140879

OpenAI category scores

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A static image of a shoe with a cartoon couple under a heart, overlaid by red text reading "Doug".

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 08:06 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,147 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 573

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • maroon (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • cartoon figures (object, 0.80)
  • sneaker (object, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
  • cartoon (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • couple (subject, 0.80)
  • heart (subject, 0.80)
  • shoe (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • white
  • maroon
  • red
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • centered text overlay
  • shoe occupies most of frame

Dense Caption

The image shows the top portion of a white and maroon sneaker. On the upper white section, there is a small red heart above two black-and-white cartoon figures resembling a couple holding hands. The shoe has visible laces and a dark stripe along its edge. A large red text overlay reading "Doug" with a black outline appears across the center of the image.

Description

  • A static image of a shoe with a cartoon couple under a heart, overlaid by red text reading "Doug".

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

  • shoe cartoon couple heart
  • red text Doug sneaker
  • maroon white shoe red heart
  • cartoon figures holding hands

Objects

  • sneaker
  • heart
  • cartoon figures
  • text

Style

  • cartoon
  • pixelated

Subjects

  • shoe
  • heart
  • couple

Visible Text

  • Doug

Visually Supported Entities

  • Doug

Wordwall

  • sneaker
  • red heart
  • cartoon couple
  • black-and-white figures
  • white upper
  • maroon section
  • laces
  • text overlay
  • red lettering
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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
20080424125249633314192
Archive entry
20080424125249633314192.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:24 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#20080424125249633314192.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080424125249633314192.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016