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A pixelated image divided into four quadrants with a person in the top-left, cyan text in top-right and bottom-left, and a gray background in bottom-right.

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A pixelated image divided into four quadrants with a person in the top-left, cyan text in top-right and bottom-left, and a gray background in bottom-right.

A pixelated image divided into four quadrants with a person in the top-left, cyan text in top-right and bottom-left, and a gray background in bottom-right. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM…

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Source terms

Composition

  • four-quadrant

Dense Caption

The image is a four-quadrant composition. Top-left quadrant shows a pixelated person with long dark hair, wearing a red garment, and a blurred blue object on the left edge. Top-right quadrant has cyan text "ii LOVE" on a light purple background. Bottom-left quadrant has cyan text "you" on a light purple background. Bottom-right quadrant is solid gray. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation throughout.

Description

A pixelated image divided into four quadrants with a person in the top-left, cyan text in top-right and bottom-left, and a gray background in bottom-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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person cyan text four-quadrant
  • ii LOVE you cyan text
  • red garment gray background
  • low resolution four-quadrant image

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid

Style

  • text overlay

Visible Text

  • ii LOVE
  • you

Wordwall

  • four-quadrant composition
  • pixelated person
  • long dark hair
  • red garment
  • cyan text
  • light purple background
  • gray background
  • blurred blue object
  • low resolution

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708231010581666864887
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/74/74c97715e4467d1de4570d9f3a841811ef9679333cc68d5a2f1b6cef5f690ef7.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 UTC
Archive ID
74c97715e4467d1d
SHA-256
74c97715e4467d1de4570d9f3a841811ef9679333cc68d5a2f1b6cef5f690ef7
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 15, 2026 at 10:41 UTC
Run
1295
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.010199

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:59 UTC
Run
1039
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A pixelated image divided into four quadrants with a person in the top-left, cyan text in top-right and bottom-left, and a gray background in bottom-right.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 04:16 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,999 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 662

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light purple (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • blurred blue object (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text overlay (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • light purple
  • gray
  • red
  • dark blue

Composition

  • four-quadrant

Dense Caption

The image is a four-quadrant composition. Top-left quadrant shows a pixelated person with long dark hair, wearing a red garment, and a blurred blue object on the left edge. Top-right quadrant has cyan text "ii LOVE" on a light purple background. Bottom-left quadrant has cyan text "you" on a light purple background. Bottom-right quadrant is solid gray. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation throughout.

Description

A pixelated image divided into four quadrants with a person in the top-left, cyan text in top-right and bottom-left, and a gray background in bottom-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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person cyan text four-quadrant
  • ii LOVE you cyan text
  • red garment gray background
  • low resolution four-quadrant image

Objects

  • blurred blue object

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text overlay

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • ii LOVE
  • you

Wordwall

  • four-quadrant composition
  • pixelated person
  • long dark hair
  • red garment
  • cyan text
  • light purple background
  • gray background
  • blurred blue object
  • low resolution
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 12:45 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)
Raw JSON
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
200708231010581666864887
Archive entry
200708231010581666864887.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 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#200708231010581666864887.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708231010581666864887.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016