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A static image with four distinct sections: a pink and green plaid pattern, a vertical wordwall with 'hug', 'laugh', 'smile', 'love', a green heart icon, and a pixelated character hugging another figure.

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A static image with four distinct sections: a pink and green plaid pattern, a vertical wordwall with 'hug', 'laugh', 'smile', 'love', a green heart icon, and a pixelated character hugging another figure.

A static image with four distinct sections: a pink and green plaid pattern, a vertical wordwall with 'hug', 'laugh', 'smile', 'love', a green heart icon, and a pixelated character…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • top-left plaid
  • top-right wordwall
  • bottom-left characters
  • bottom-right solid gray

Dense Caption

The image is divided into four quadrants. Top-left: pink and green plaid pattern with white lines. Top-right: vertical wordwall with 'hug' in blue, 'laugh' in yellow, 'smile' in green, 'love' in pink, each repeated below in gray. A green heart icon appears left of the wordwall. Bottom-left: pixelated character with yellow skin hugging a blue figure, white heart above. Bottom-right: solid gray background. All elements are static.

Description

A static image with four distinct sections: a pink and green plaid pattern, a vertical wordwall with 'hug', 'laugh', 'smile', 'love', a green heart icon, and a pixelated character hugging another figure.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hug laugh smile love wordwall
  • yellow character hugging blue character
  • plaid pattern heart icon
  • pixel art four quadrant

Objects

  • heart icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixel art four quadrant grid

Visible Text

  • hug
  • laugh
  • smile
  • love

Wordwall

  • hug
  • laugh
  • smile
  • love

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080228161853590439826
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.7 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/93/93c838917487f72aba956f5e2aaed15c3a12969fea489a9d081700b23169ff72.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 UTC
Archive ID
93c838917487f72a
SHA-256
93c838917487f72aba956f5e2aaed15c3a12969fea489a9d081700b23169ff72
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 27, 2026 at 03:43 UTC
Run
1349
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000704

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagsexual0.000704falseself-harm0.000456falseself-harm/intent0.000213falseviolence0.000013falseharassment0.000007falsesexual/minors0.000005falseillicit0.000004falseviolence/graphic0.000003falsehate0.000002falseself-harm/instructions0.000001falseillicit/violent0.000001falseharassment/threatening0.000001falsehate/threatening0.000000false
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 1, 2026 at 19:17 UTC
Run
1254
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000536

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.000536falseself-harm0.000474falseself-harm/intent0.000214falsesexual0.000051falseviolence/graphic0.000005falseself-harm/instructions0.000002falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:10 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.385059

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.928049onnx/unsafe0.385059onnx/nsfw0.333186onnx/nsfl0.051873
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A static image with four distinct sections: a pink and green plaid pattern, a vertical wordwall with 'hug', 'laugh', 'smile', 'love', a green heart icon, and a pixelated character hugging another figure.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 13:38 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,443 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 735

Review tags

  • heart floating (action, 0.80)
  • hugging (action, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • heart icon (object, 0.80)
  • plaid pattern (object, 0.80)
  • cartoonish (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • blue character (subject, 0.80)
  • green heart (subject, 0.80)
  • yellow character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • hugging
  • heart floating

Colors

  • pink
  • green
  • white
  • blue
  • yellow
  • gray

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • top-left plaid
  • top-right wordwall
  • bottom-left characters
  • bottom-right solid gray

Dense Caption

The image is divided into four quadrants. Top-left: pink and green plaid pattern with white lines. Top-right: vertical wordwall with 'hug' in blue, 'laugh' in yellow, 'smile' in green, 'love' in pink, each repeated below in gray. A green heart icon appears left of the wordwall. Bottom-left: pixelated character with yellow skin hugging a blue figure, white heart above. Bottom-right: solid gray background. All elements are static.

Description

A static image with four distinct sections: a pink and green plaid pattern, a vertical wordwall with 'hug', 'laugh', 'smile', 'love', a green heart icon, and a pixelated character hugging another figure.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Mood

  • cheerful
  • affectionate

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hug laugh smile love wordwall
  • yellow character hugging blue character
  • plaid pattern heart icon
  • pixel art four quadrant

Objects

  • plaid pattern
  • heart icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixel art four quadrant grid

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • cartoonish

Subjects

  • yellow character
  • blue character
  • green heart

Visible Text

  • hug
  • laugh
  • smile
  • love

Wordwall

  • hug
  • laugh
  • smile
  • love
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 04:24 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
20080228161853590439826
Archive entry
20080228161853590439826.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 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#20080228161853590439826.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080228161853590439826.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016