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Black-and-white photo of two people in close proximity on left; yellow background with pixelated text and heart symbols on right.

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Black-and-white photo of two people in close proximity on left; yellow background with pixelated text and heart symbols on right.

Black-and-white photo of two people in close proximity on left; yellow background with pixelated text and heart symbols on right. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet A…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • left half: photograph
  • right half: text on solid background
  • vertical text stack
  • four-line text block

Dense Caption

Black-and-white photograph of two people in close proximity occupies left half of frame; one person appears to kiss the other's cheek. Right half features solid yellow background with pixelated black text: 'i <3 my' stacked vertically above 'piggy ducky froggy squirley' in four lines, followed by '<3' at bottom. Text uses blocky, low-resolution font typical of early digital interfaces. Image has visible pixelation and low resolution.

Description

  • Black-and-white photo of two people in close proximity on left; yellow background with pixelated text and heart symbols on 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • two people kissing
  • yellow background pixelated text
  • i <3 my piggy ducky froggy squirley
  • heart symbol text
  • low-resolution digital interface
  • affectionate playful mood
  • blocky text <3
  • photograph on left

Objects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • i
  • <3
  • my
  • piggy
  • ducky
  • froggy
  • squirley

Wordwall

  • two people
  • black-and-white photo
  • yellow background
  • pixelated text
  • i <3 my
  • piggy ducky froggy squirley
  • <3
  • low-resolution font
  • cheek kiss
  • solid yellow background
  • blocky text
  • pixelation
  • close proximity
  • stacked text
  • four-line text block
  • heart symbol
  • text <3
  • photograph
  • digital interface
  • early 2000s style

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200711302041321997443641
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:01 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.2 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/62/624089466e73d900c645e14a791c5bf9dfd066b94488d50e617638837c08e1e7.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:01 UTC
Archive ID
624089466e73d900
SHA-256
624089466e73d900c645e14a791c5bf9dfd066b94488d50e617638837c08e1e7
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 22, 2026 at 05:13 UTC
Run
89
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.120025

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Black-and-white photo of two people in close proximity on left; yellow background with pixelated text and heart symbols on right.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 12:43 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,009 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,116, response 799

Review tags

  • close proximity (action, 0.80)
  • kissing (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (object, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • early digital (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • photograph of people (subject, 0.80)
  • two people (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • kissing
  • close proximity

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • yellow

Composition

  • left half: photograph
  • right half: text on solid background
  • vertical text stack
  • four-line text block

Dense Caption

Black-and-white photograph of two people in close proximity occupies left half of frame; one person appears to kiss the other's cheek. Right half features solid yellow background with pixelated black text: 'i <3 my' stacked vertically above 'piggy ducky froggy squirley' in four lines, followed by '<3' at bottom. Text uses blocky, low-resolution font typical of early digital interfaces. Image has visible pixelation and low resolution.

Description

  • Black-and-white photo of two people in close proximity on left; yellow background with pixelated text and heart symbols on 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • affectionate
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • two people kissing
  • yellow background pixelated text
  • i <3 my piggy ducky froggy squirley
  • heart symbol text
  • low-resolution digital interface
  • affectionate playful mood
  • blocky text <3
  • photograph on left

Objects

  • heart symbol

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky text
  • early digital

Subjects

  • two people
  • photograph of people

Visible Text

  • i
  • <3
  • my
  • piggy
  • ducky
  • froggy
  • squirley

Wordwall

  • two people
  • black-and-white photo
  • yellow background
  • pixelated text
  • i <3 my
  • piggy ducky froggy squirley
  • <3
  • low-resolution font
  • cheek kiss
  • solid yellow background
  • blocky text
  • pixelation
  • close proximity
  • stacked text
  • four-line text block
  • heart symbol
  • text <3
  • photograph
  • digital interface
  • early 2000s style
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 21:52 UTC
Run
53
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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Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
200711302041321997443641
Archive entry
200711302041321997443641.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:01 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#200711302041321997443641.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200711302041321997443641.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016