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A pixelated image split into two sections: a close-up of a person's face on the left and stylized text with an emoticon on the right.

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A pixelated image split into two sections: a close-up of a person's face on the left and stylized text with an emoticon on the right.

A pixelated image split into two sections: a close-up of a person's face on the left and stylized text with an emoticon on the right. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Intern…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split-screen
  • left face, right text/emoticon

Dense Caption

The left section shows a close-up of a light-skinned person's face with brown hair, visible eyes, nose, mouth, and blue clothing. The right section displays pixelated black text reading 'unlike' followed by a gray and black emoticon resembling '<3'. The background is white on the right side and indistinct on the left. Pixelation affects both sections uniformly.

Description

  • A pixelated image split into two sections: a close-up of a person's face on the left and stylized text with an emoticon 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated face blue clothing
  • unlike emoticon <3
  • split screen text emoticon
  • light-skinned brown hair

Visible Text

  • unlike

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • light-skinned person
  • brown hair
  • blue clothing
  • pixelated face
  • white background
  • black text 'unlike'
  • <3 emoticon

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080222083722741393098
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:15 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/81/8102e4a87cb99f5b7aa5eb56915ce2bcead92a667053c00da3eb9d1a7ccac93e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:15 UTC
Archive ID
8102e4a87cb99f5b
SHA-256
8102e4a87cb99f5b7aa5eb56915ce2bcead92a667053c00da3eb9d1a7ccac93e
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:34 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.087231

OpenAI category scores

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A pixelated image split into two sections: a close-up of a person's face on the left and stylized text with an emoticon on the right.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 01:54 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,539 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,141, response 562

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light skinned (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • emoticon (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • light-skinned
  • brown
  • blue
  • black
  • gray
  • white

Composition

  • split-screen
  • left face, right text/emoticon

Dense Caption

The left section shows a close-up of a light-skinned person's face with brown hair, visible eyes, nose, mouth, and blue clothing. The right section displays pixelated black text reading 'unlike' followed by a gray and black emoticon resembling '<3'. The background is white on the right side and indistinct on the left. Pixelation affects both sections uniformly.

Description

  • A pixelated image split into two sections: a close-up of a person's face on the left and stylized text with an emoticon 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated face blue clothing
  • unlike emoticon <3
  • split screen text emoticon
  • light-skinned brown hair

Objects

  • emoticon

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • unlike

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • light-skinned person
  • brown hair
  • blue clothing
  • pixelated face
  • white background
  • black text 'unlike'
  • <3 emoticon
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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
20080222083722741393098
Archive entry
20080222083722741393098.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:15 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#20080222083722741393098.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080222083722741393098.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016