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A split-screen image with a person on the left and pixelated text on the right.

A split-screen image with a person on the left and pixelated text on the right. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2000s…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split-screen
  • left-right division

Dense Caption

Left side shows a person wearing a white cap, dark t-shirt with light-colored graphic design, and making hand gesture. Right side has solid blue background with stacked white pixelated text reading "I Love You Lance" in four lines. Image is low-resolution with visible pixelation throughout. Person's face appears blurred or obscured.

Description

  • A split-screen image with a person on the left and pixelated text 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

Named Entities

  • Lance

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person wearing white cap
  • blue background text I Love You Lance
  • split-screen pixelated image

Visible Text

  • I
  • Love
  • You
  • Lance

Visually Supported Entities

  • Lance

Wordwall

  • split-screen
  • white cap
  • dark t-shirt
  • graphic design
  • hand gesture
  • solid blue background
  • pixelated text
  • stacked text
  • I Love You Lance

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070930203625164310981
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:48 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/88/8857dec2f7b3e4255eb8bc1f6f2389306e5c9b6248480ca97a465c5e1492da7a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:48 UTC
Archive ID
8857dec2f7b3e425
SHA-256
8857dec2f7b3e4255eb8bc1f6f2389306e5c9b6248480ca97a465c5e1492da7a
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 28, 2026 at 06:24 UTC
Run
1201
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000496

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagself-harm0.000496falseself-harm/intent0.000214falsesexual0.000112falseharassment0.000047falseviolence0.000015falseviolence/graphic0.000008falseillicit0.000005falsehate0.000003falseharassment/threatening0.000002falseself-harm/instructions0.000001falsesexual/minors0.000001falseillicit/violent0.000001falsehate/threatening0.000000false

Qwen scheduling evidence

Evidence strength is retained for queueing and audit. It does not set the public content-safety verdict.

EvidenceStrengthInputenrichment/visual/violence0.500000image
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:38 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.089073

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.918981onnx/unsafe0.089073onnx/nsfw0.049348onnx/nsfl0.039726
Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A split-screen image with a person on the left and pixelated text on the right.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 06:18 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,905 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,145, response 545

Review tags

  • making hand gesture (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • dark gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • cap (object, 0.80)
  • t shirt (object, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • making hand gesture

Colors

  • white
  • dark gray
  • blue

Composition

  • split-screen
  • left-right division

Dense Caption

Left side shows a person wearing a white cap, dark t-shirt with light-colored graphic design, and making hand gesture. Right side has solid blue background with stacked white pixelated text reading "I Love You Lance" in four lines. Image is low-resolution with visible pixelation throughout. Person's face appears blurred or obscured.

Description

  • A split-screen image with a person on the left and pixelated text 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

Named Entities

  • Lance

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person wearing white cap
  • blue background text I Love You Lance
  • split-screen pixelated image

Objects

  • cap
  • t-shirt
  • text

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • I
  • Love
  • You
  • Lance

Visually Supported Entities

  • Lance

Wordwall

  • split-screen
  • white cap
  • dark t-shirt
  • graphic design
  • hand gesture
  • solid blue background
  • pixelated text
  • stacked text
  • I Love You Lance
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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
20070930203625164310981
Archive entry
20070930203625164310981.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:48 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#20070930203625164310981.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070930203625164310981.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016