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Black-and-white pixelated image split into four quadrants with text overlays and a grayscale photo of a person holding a game controller.

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Black-and-white pixelated image split into four quadrants with text overlays and a grayscale photo of a person holding a game controller.

Black-and-white pixelated image split into four quadrants with text overlays and a grayscale photo of a person holding a game controller. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from In…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four-quadrant

Dense Caption

The image is divided into four quadrants. Top-left quadrant shows a grayscale pixelated photo of a person holding a game controller with a blurred background. Top-right quadrant has white pixelated text on black background reading "i love the way he makes me". Bottom-left quadrant has white pixelated text on black background reading "SMILE<3". Bottom-right quadrant is solid light gray. The image is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Black-and-white pixelated image split into four quadrants with text overlays and a grayscale photo of a person holding a game controller.

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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071124142040517965115

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixelated text four quadrants
  • person holding game controller
  • i love the way he makes me SMILE<3
  • pixelated style static image
  • black white gray color scheme
  • four quadrant composition
  • affectionate playful mood
  • games topic coverage

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be a static composite with no animation frames
  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid
  • quarantined retrieval: four quadrant grid composition

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 love the way he makes me
  • SMILE<3

Wordwall

  • grayscale photo
  • game controller
  • pixelated text
  • four quadrants
  • black background
  • light gray background
  • text: i love the way he makes me
  • text: SMILE<3
  • pixelated style
  • static image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071124142040517965115
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:00 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/83/831b23337b5f3a81cddce881a1b5870d01d1575611a73b583409c0529877560a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:00 UTC
Archive ID
831b23337b5f3a81
SHA-256
831b23337b5f3a81cddce881a1b5870d01d1575611a73b583409c0529877560a
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:28 UTC
Run
1109
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.098599

OpenAI category scores

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

Black-and-white pixelated image split into four quadrants with text overlays and a grayscale photo of a person holding a game controller.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 11:06 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,505 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,115, response 841

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • game controller (subject, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • four-quadrant

Dense Caption

The image is divided into four quadrants. Top-left quadrant shows a grayscale pixelated photo of a person holding a game controller with a blurred background. Top-right quadrant has white pixelated text on black background reading "i love the way he makes me". Bottom-left quadrant has white pixelated text on black background reading "SMILE<3". Bottom-right quadrant is solid light gray. The image is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Black-and-white pixelated image split into four quadrants with text overlays and a grayscale photo of a person holding a game controller.

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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071124142040517965115

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Mood

  • affectionate
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixelated text four quadrants
  • person holding game controller
  • i love the way he makes me SMILE<3
  • pixelated style static image
  • black white gray color scheme
  • four quadrant composition
  • affectionate playful mood
  • games topic coverage

Objects

  • game controller

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be a static composite with no animation frames
  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid
  • quarantined retrieval: four quadrant grid composition

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • grayscale

Subjects

  • person
  • game controller

Visible Text

  • i love the way he makes me
  • SMILE<3

Wordwall

  • grayscale photo
  • game controller
  • pixelated text
  • four quadrants
  • black background
  • light gray background
  • text: i love the way he makes me
  • text: SMILE<3
  • pixelated style
  • static image
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 21:20 UTC
Run
53
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)
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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
20071124142040517965115
Archive entry
20071124142040517965115.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:00 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#20071124142040517965115.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071124142040517965115.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016