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A pixelated image with a dark background showing partial faces and text overlays in bright colors.

A pixelated image with a dark background showing partial faces and text overlays in bright colors. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four sections
  • top-left, top-right, bottom-left, bottom-right layout

Dense Caption

The image consists of four distinct sections. The top-left section shows a grayscale face partially visible on the left side, with cyan and pink text reading "gotta love" below it. The top-right section displays another grayscale face partially visible on the right side, with yellow and pink text reading "letting your" below it. The bottom-left section features a third grayscale face partially visible in the center, with blue and yellow text reading "hair down." The bottom-right section is a solid gray rectangle with no additional elements.

Description

  • A pixelated image with a dark background showing partial faces and text overlays in bright colors.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080703104100646455799

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale faces text overlays cyan pink yellow blue
  • partial faces dark background solid gray rectangle

Style

  • text overlay

Visible Text

  • gotta love
  • letting your
  • hair down

Wordwall

  • grayscale faces
  • cyan pink text
  • yellow pink text
  • blue yellow text
  • dark background
  • solid gray rectangle

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080703104100646455799
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.7 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/6d/6d13225fea646788aa25850aa6e3aad67be55cc5bdf0290a58064d1619470d59.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 UTC
Archive ID
6d13225fea646788
SHA-256
6d13225fea646788aa25850aa6e3aad67be55cc5bdf0290a58064d1619470d59
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 17, 2026 at 10:25 UTC
Run
1309
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000755

OpenAI category scores

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 24, 2026 at 19:09 UTC
Run
1187
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.035986

OpenAI category scores

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onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:51 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.798974

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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A pixelated image with a dark background showing partial faces and text overlays in bright colors.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 10:19 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,405 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 627

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • dark background (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text overlay (style, 0.80)
  • partial faces (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • pink
  • yellow
  • blue
  • gray
  • dark background

Composition

  • four sections
  • top-left, top-right, bottom-left, bottom-right layout

Dense Caption

The image consists of four distinct sections. The top-left section shows a grayscale face partially visible on the left side, with cyan and pink text reading "gotta love" below it. The top-right section displays another grayscale face partially visible on the right side, with yellow and pink text reading "letting your" below it. The bottom-left section features a third grayscale face partially visible in the center, with blue and yellow text reading "hair down." The bottom-right section is a solid gray rectangle with no additional elements.

Description

  • A pixelated image with a dark background showing partial faces and text overlays in bright colors.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080703104100646455799

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale faces text overlays cyan pink yellow blue
  • partial faces dark background solid gray rectangle

Style

  • pixelated
  • text overlay

Subjects

  • partial faces

Visible Text

  • gotta love
  • letting your
  • hair down

Wordwall

  • grayscale faces
  • cyan pink text
  • yellow pink text
  • blue yellow text
  • dark background
  • solid gray rectangle
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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
20080703104100646455799
Archive entry
20080703104100646455799.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 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#20080703104100646455799.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080703104100646455799.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016