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A pixelated image shows a person with curly brown hair on the left, next to a blue background with black text reading "i lov him" on the right.

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A pixelated image shows a person with curly brown hair on the left, next to a blue background with black text reading "i lov him" on the right.

A pixelated image shows a person with curly brown hair on the left, next to a blue background with black text reading "i lov him" on the right. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon f…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split vertical
  • left portrait
  • right text

Dense Caption

The image is split vertically into two sections. On the left, a pixelated portrait shows a person with voluminous curly brown hair, light skin, and a dark top; the background behind the person is a light, textured surface. On the right, a solid bright blue background contains black pixelated text in two lines: "i lov" on the top line and "him" on the bottom line. The text uses a blocky, low-resolution font typical of early digital graphics. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated appearance with visible dithering and color banding.

Description

A pixelated image shows a person with curly brown hair on the left, next to a blue background with black text reading "i lov him" on the 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

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person curly brown hair
  • blue background text i lov him
  • pixelated portrait blue text
  • low-resolution graphics affectionate

Preprocessing Notes

  • pixelation
  • dithering
  • color banding

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • i lov
  • him

Wordwall

  • pixelated portrait
  • curly brown hair
  • light skin
  • dark top
  • light textured background
  • solid blue background
  • black pixelated text
  • two-line text
  • i lov him
  • blocky font
  • low-resolution graphics
  • dithering
  • color banding

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070823070509927015498
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.8 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/79/799716d1544422530eae36349de8b9a489ff01d923a3bce61a3f32f6e0e96c78.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 UTC
Archive ID
799716d154442253
SHA-256
799716d1544422530eae36349de8b9a489ff01d923a3bce61a3f32f6e0e96c78
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:08 UTC
Run
1062
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.101994

OpenAI category scores

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

A pixelated image shows a person with curly brown hair on the left, next to a blue background with black text reading "i lov him" on the right.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 04:11 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,810 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,147, response 791

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark (color, 0.80)
  • light (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • casual (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • brown
  • light
  • dark
  • blue
  • black

Composition

  • split vertical
  • left portrait
  • right text

Dense Caption

The image is split vertically into two sections. On the left, a pixelated portrait shows a person with voluminous curly brown hair, light skin, and a dark top; the background behind the person is a light, textured surface. On the right, a solid bright blue background contains black pixelated text in two lines: "i lov" on the top line and "him" on the bottom line. The text uses a blocky, low-resolution font typical of early digital graphics. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated appearance with visible dithering and color banding.

Description

A pixelated image shows a person with curly brown hair on the left, next to a blue background with black text reading "i lov him" on the 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

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • affectionate
  • casual

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person curly brown hair
  • blue background text i lov him
  • pixelated portrait blue text
  • low-resolution graphics affectionate

Preprocessing Notes

  • pixelation
  • dithering
  • color banding

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • i lov
  • him

Wordwall

  • pixelated portrait
  • curly brown hair
  • light skin
  • dark top
  • light textured background
  • solid blue background
  • black pixelated text
  • two-line text
  • i lov him
  • blocky font
  • low-resolution graphics
  • dithering
  • color banding
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 12:44 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)
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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
20070823070509927015498
Archive entry
20070823070509927015498.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#20070823070509927015498.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070823070509927015498.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016