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Pixelated image of two people in formal attire with a blue background and pink text reading 'HOW ABOUT NEVER GOING' in the top-right quadrant.

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Pixelated image of two people in formal attire with a blue background and pink text reading 'HOW ABOUT NEVER GOING' in the top-right quadrant.

Pixelated image of two people in formal attire with a blue background and pink text reading 'HOW ABOUT NEVER GOING' in the top-right quadrant. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon fr…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • top-left photograph
  • top-right text
  • bottom-left text
  • bottom-right solid color

Dense Caption

Top-left quadrant shows two people in formal attire: one wears a dark suit with a white shirt and blue tie, the other wears a dark dress. Top-right quadrant has bright blue background with pink pixelated text reading 'HOW ABOUT NEVER GOING'. Bottom-left quadrant has bright blue background with pink pixelated text reading 'HAPPEN NEVER EVER'. Bottom-right quadrant is solid gray. All text uses blocky, low-resolution font. The image is divided into four equal quadrants. The top-left quadrant contains a pixelated photograph of two people in formal attire. The top-right and bottom-left quadrants contain pixelated text on a bright blue background. The bottom-right quadrant is a solid gray color. The text in the top-right quadrant is partially obscured but appears to read 'HOW ABOUT NEVER GOING'. The text in the bottom-left quadrant appears to read 'HAPPEN NEVER EVER'.

Description

Pixelated image of two people in formal attire with a blue background and pink text reading 'HOW ABOUT NEVER GOING' in the top-right quadrant.

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: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • two people formal attire
  • blue background pink text
  • HOW ABOUT NEVER GOING
  • HAPPEN NEVER EVER
  • four quadrants
  • pixelated photograph
  • blocky font
  • solid gray quadrant

Objects

  • background

Visible Text

  • HOW ABOUT NEVER GOING
  • HAPPEN NEVER EVER

Wordwall

  • two people in formal attire
  • dark suit
  • white shirt
  • blue tie
  • dark dress
  • bright blue background
  • pink pixelated text
  • HOW ABOUT NEVER GOING
  • HAPPEN NEVER EVER
  • solid gray quadrant
  • four quadrants
  • pixelated photograph
  • blocky font
  • low-resolution
  • text partially obscured

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070820095506474008305
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.6 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/68/6892a3196519a9d054938bfa8b6e241b0dc35e8c6942115ea6f93732dbf7990d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC
Archive ID
6892a3196519a9d0
SHA-256
6892a3196519a9d054938bfa8b6e241b0dc35e8c6942115ea6f93732dbf7990d
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:47 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.093826

OpenAI category scores

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

Pixelated image of two people in formal attire with a blue background and pink text reading 'HOW ABOUT NEVER GOING' in the top-right quadrant.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 02:36 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,192 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 851

Review tags

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  • text (object, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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  • dark dress (subject, 0.80)
  • dark suit (subject, 0.80)
  • formal attire (subject, 0.80)
  • two people (subject, 0.80)
  • white shirt (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • pink
  • gray
  • black
  • white
  • purple

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • top-left photograph
  • top-right text
  • bottom-left text
  • bottom-right solid color

Dense Caption

Top-left quadrant shows two people in formal attire: one wears a dark suit with a white shirt and blue tie, the other wears a dark dress. Top-right quadrant has bright blue background with pink pixelated text reading 'HOW ABOUT NEVER GOING'. Bottom-left quadrant has bright blue background with pink pixelated text reading 'HAPPEN NEVER EVER'. Bottom-right quadrant is solid gray. All text uses blocky, low-resolution font. The image is divided into four equal quadrants. The top-left quadrant contains a pixelated photograph of two people in formal attire. The top-right and bottom-left quadrants contain pixelated text on a bright blue background. The bottom-right quadrant is a solid gray color. The text in the top-right quadrant is partially obscured but appears to read 'HOW ABOUT NEVER GOING'. The text in the bottom-left quadrant appears to read 'HAPPEN NEVER EVER'.

Description

Pixelated image of two people in formal attire with a blue background and pink text reading 'HOW ABOUT NEVER GOING' in the top-right quadrant.

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: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • blue background pink text
  • HOW ABOUT NEVER GOING
  • HAPPEN NEVER EVER
  • four quadrants
  • pixelated photograph
  • blocky font
  • solid gray quadrant

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  • text
  • background
  • quadrants

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  • pixelated
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  • blocky font

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  • two people
  • formal attire
  • dark suit
  • white shirt
  • blue tie
  • dark dress

Visible Text

  • HOW ABOUT NEVER GOING
  • HAPPEN NEVER EVER

Wordwall

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  • dark suit
  • white shirt
  • blue tie
  • dark dress
  • bright blue background
  • pink pixelated text
  • HOW ABOUT NEVER GOING
  • HAPPEN NEVER EVER
  • solid gray quadrant
  • four quadrants
  • pixelated photograph
  • blocky font
  • low-resolution
  • text partially obscured
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 12:18 UTC
Run
52
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
20070820095506474008305
Archive entry
20070820095506474008305.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 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#20070820095506474008305.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070820095506474008305.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016