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A static buddy icon with a split background showing text and two people.

A static buddy icon with a split background showing text and two people. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2000s to Mid…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four-quadrant layout

Dense Caption

The image is divided into four quadrants. Top-left quadrant: solid teal background with white pixelated 'I' in black outline. Top-right quadrant: white background with blue pixelated 'love' in black outline. Bottom-left quadrant: teal background with large white pixelated 'Serubs!' text in black outline, exclamation mark included. Bottom-right quadrant: two people; left person has dark hair and wears light-colored shirt, right person has lighter hair and wears blue shirt. Both faces are visible from shoulders up.

Description

  • A static buddy icon with a split background showing text and two people.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • I love Serubs!
  • teal white pixelated text
  • two people split background
  • Serubs exclamation mark

Visible Text

  • I
  • love
  • Serubs!

Visually Supported Entities

  • Serubs!

Wordwall

  • teal background
  • white background
  • pixelated 'I'
  • pixelated 'love'
  • pixelated 'Serubs!'

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200809231822391983920659
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
3.5 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/7b/7b012a180069892efa5599697b9b1500cdbe27d8639d917d687a07229f3a86be.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC
Archive ID
7b012a180069892e
SHA-256
7b012a180069892efa5599697b9b1500cdbe27d8639d917d687a07229f3a86be
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:10 UTC
Run
1067
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.090329

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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A static buddy icon with a split background showing text and two people.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 01:24 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,440 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 566

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • blue shirt (color, 0.80)
  • light colored shirt (color, 0.80)
  • teal (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated text (style, 0.80)
  • split background (style, 0.80)
  • text elements (subject, 0.80)
  • two people (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • teal
  • white
  • blue
  • black
  • light-colored shirt
  • blue shirt

Composition

  • four-quadrant layout

Dense Caption

The image is divided into four quadrants. Top-left quadrant: solid teal background with white pixelated 'I' in black outline. Top-right quadrant: white background with blue pixelated 'love' in black outline. Bottom-left quadrant: teal background with large white pixelated 'Serubs!' text in black outline, exclamation mark included. Bottom-right quadrant: two people; left person has dark hair and wears light-colored shirt, right person has lighter hair and wears blue shirt. Both faces are visible from shoulders up.

Description

  • A static buddy icon with a split background showing text and two people.

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

Mood

  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • I love Serubs!
  • teal white pixelated text
  • two people split background
  • Serubs exclamation mark

Style

  • pixelated text
  • split background

Subjects

  • two people
  • text elements

Visible Text

  • I
  • love
  • Serubs!

Visually Supported Entities

  • Serubs!

Wordwall

  • teal background
  • white background
  • pixelated 'I'
  • pixelated 'love'
  • pixelated 'Serubs!'
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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
200809231822391983920659
Archive entry
200809231822391983920659.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 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#200809231822391983920659.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200809231822391983920659.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016