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Two people in a pixelated photo on the left, green text and heart symbol on the right.

Two people in a pixelated photo on the left, green text and heart symbol on the right. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Lat…

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Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes between observations; the image is a static split-screen with pixelated elements on both sides.

Composition

  • left side: two people in photo
  • right side: text and symbol on solid background

Dense Caption

Left side shows two individuals with brown hair in a pixelated photograph; one person wears a dark top with a small light-colored emblem. Right side displays green pixelated text reading 'Best Friends' above a green pixelated heart symbol '<3' on a black background. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation throughout. The left side has a light background with vertical lines, possibly a wall or curtain. The right side has a solid black background. The overall image is horizontally split into two distinct sections with no visible animation changes between observations.

Description

  • Two people in a pixelated photo on the left, green text and heart symbol 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • 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

  • two people pixelated photo
  • best friends green text
  • green heart symbol
  • black background pixelated
  • horizontal split image
  • brown hair dark top emblem
  • low resolution pixelated image
  • green text best friends heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • image is horizontally split into two distinct sections

Visible Text

  • Best Friends
  • <3

Wordwall

  • two people
  • brown hair
  • pixelated photo
  • dark top
  • small emblem
  • green text
  • 'Best Friends'
  • green heart symbol '<3'
  • black background
  • light background
  • vertical lines
  • low resolution
  • horizontal split

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090104171344921637962
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.7 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/7a/7aea648fe4ae4308bf2e7849235425baf50e9cc575f30c4548c5666729c6c818.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 UTC
Archive ID
7aea648fe4ae4308
SHA-256
7aea648fe4ae4308bf2e7849235425baf50e9cc575f30c4548c5666729c6c818
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:09 UTC
Run
1067
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.098723

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.908118onnx/unsafe0.098723onnx/nsfw0.050869onnx/nsfl0.047854
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Two people in a pixelated photo on the left, green text and heart symbol on the right.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 16:48 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,062 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,144, response 778

Review tags

  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark (color, 0.80)
  • black background (object, 0.80)
  • green heart symbol 3 (object, 0.80)
  • green text (object, 0.80)
  • light background with vertical lines (object, 0.80)
  • horizontal split (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • brown hair (subject, 0.80)
  • small emblem on dark top (subject, 0.80)
  • two people (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes between observations; the image is a static split-screen with pixelated elements on both sides.

Colors

  • brown
  • dark
  • green
  • black
  • light

Composition

  • left side: two people in photo
  • right side: text and symbol on solid background

Dense Caption

Left side shows two individuals with brown hair in a pixelated photograph; one person wears a dark top with a small light-colored emblem. Right side displays green pixelated text reading 'Best Friends' above a green pixelated heart symbol '<3' on a black background. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation throughout. The left side has a light background with vertical lines, possibly a wall or curtain. The right side has a solid black background. The overall image is horizontally split into two distinct sections with no visible animation changes between observations.

Description

  • Two people in a pixelated photo on the left, green text and heart symbol 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • 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

  • two people pixelated photo
  • best friends green text
  • green heart symbol
  • black background pixelated
  • horizontal split image
  • brown hair dark top emblem
  • low resolution pixelated image
  • green text best friends heart symbol

Objects

  • green text
  • green heart symbol '<3'
  • black background
  • light background with vertical lines

Preprocessing Notes

  • image is horizontally split into two distinct sections

Style

  • pixelated
  • low resolution
  • horizontal split

Subjects

  • two people
  • brown hair
  • small emblem on dark top

Visible Text

  • Best Friends
  • <3

Wordwall

  • two people
  • brown hair
  • pixelated photo
  • dark top
  • small emblem
  • green text
  • 'Best Friends'
  • green heart symbol '<3'
  • black background
  • light background
  • vertical lines
  • low resolution
  • horizontal split
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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
20090104171344921637962
Archive entry
20090104171344921637962.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 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#20090104171344921637962.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090104171344921637962.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016