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Pixelated icon with pink paperclip and hearts, yellow text 'Gotta', red background with white swoosh and 'Luv' text.

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Pixelated icon with pink paperclip and hearts, yellow text 'Gotta', red background with white swoosh and 'Luv' text.

Pixelated icon with pink paperclip and hearts, yellow text 'Gotta', red background with white swoosh and 'Luv' text. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Franks…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • overlaid text
  • partial image display

Dense Caption

The image is a four-quadrant composition. Top-left quadrant shows a large pink paperclip on white background with small pink heart shapes above it; bold yellow text 'Gotta' overlays the paperclip. Top-right quadrant has solid maroon background with white swoosh graphic and bold yellow text 'Luv'. Bottom-left quadrant displays partial yellow text 'Theses Brand' over multicolored grid of smaller images. Bottom-right quadrant is empty gray space. All text uses pixelated font style.

Description

  • Pixelated icon with pink paperclip and hearts, yellow text 'Gotta', red background with white swoosh and 'Luv' text.

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

  • pink paperclip hearts yellow text Gotta Luv
  • maroon background white swoosh multicolored
  • pixelated font four quadrant composition

Objects

  • background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: multicolored grid
  • quarantined objects: grid
  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid
  • quarantined retrieval: maroon background white swoosh multicolored grid

Visible Text

  • Gotta
  • Luv
  • Theses
  • Brand

Visually Supported Entities

  • paperclip
  • hearts
  • swoosh

Wordwall

  • pink paperclip
  • small pink hearts
  • yellow text Gotta
  • maroon background
  • white swoosh
  • yellow text Luv
  • multicolored
  • partial yellow text Theses Brand
  • pixelated font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200802230611101672565580
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
50×50 pixels
File size
3.9 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/93/938104d9ef3cd12c2529742006a822b8b76fca4da0091ecd96d735ae0f1c2dc9.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:15 UTC
Archive ID
938104d9ef3cd12c
SHA-256
938104d9ef3cd12c2529742006a822b8b76fca4da0091ecd96d735ae0f1c2dc9
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 4, 2026 at 02:34 UTC
Run
1262
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000022

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagsexual0.000022falseharassment0.000009falsehate0.000001falseself-harm0.000001falseillicit0.000001falseviolence0.000001falseviolence/graphic0.000001falseself-harm/intent0.000001falsesexual/minors0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falseself-harm/instructions0.000000falsehate/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 06:16 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.130940

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.928030onnx/unsafe0.130940onnx/nsfw0.086748onnx/nsfl0.044192
Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated icon with pink paperclip and hearts, yellow text 'Gotta', red background with white swoosh and 'Luv' text.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 02:31 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,490 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 640

Review tags

  • maroon (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • background (object, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • graphic (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • hearts (subject, 0.80)
  • paperclip (subject, 0.80)
  • swoosh (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • pink
  • white
  • yellow
  • maroon
  • multicolored

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • overlaid text
  • partial image display

Dense Caption

The image is a four-quadrant composition. Top-left quadrant shows a large pink paperclip on white background with small pink heart shapes above it; bold yellow text 'Gotta' overlays the paperclip. Top-right quadrant has solid maroon background with white swoosh graphic and bold yellow text 'Luv'. Bottom-left quadrant displays partial yellow text 'Theses Brand' over multicolored grid of smaller images. Bottom-right quadrant is empty gray space. All text uses pixelated font style.

Description

  • Pixelated icon with pink paperclip and hearts, yellow text 'Gotta', red background with white swoosh and 'Luv' text.

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

  • pink paperclip hearts yellow text Gotta Luv
  • maroon background white swoosh multicolored
  • pixelated font four quadrant composition

Objects

  • text
  • background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: multicolored grid
  • quarantined objects: grid
  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid
  • quarantined retrieval: maroon background white swoosh multicolored grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • graphic

Subjects

  • paperclip
  • hearts
  • swoosh

Visible Text

  • Gotta
  • Luv
  • Theses
  • Brand

Visually Supported Entities

  • paperclip
  • hearts
  • swoosh

Wordwall

  • pink paperclip
  • small pink hearts
  • yellow text Gotta
  • maroon background
  • white swoosh
  • yellow text Luv
  • multicolored
  • partial yellow text Theses Brand
  • pixelated font
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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
200802230611101672565580
Archive entry
200802230611101672565580.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#200802230611101672565580.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200802230611101672565580.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016