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A pixelated photo of a person in a dark jacket with a light collar, next to text displaying dates and "i miss you" on black and gray backgrounds.

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A pixelated photo of a person in a dark jacket with a light collar, next to text displaying dates and "i miss you" on black and gray backgrounds.

A pixelated photo of a person in a dark jacket with a light collar, next to text displaying dates and "i miss you" on black and gray backgrounds. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • text blocks
  • photograph

Dense Caption

The image is divided into four quadrants. Top-left quadrant shows a pixelated photo of a person with short hair wearing a dark jacket with a light collar, seated outdoors with blurred green and brown background elements. Top-right quadrant displays white pixelated text "1-18-91" above a hyphen and "5-2-07" on a black background. Bottom-left quadrant shows white pixelated text "i miss you" with two periods below it on a black background. Bottom-right quadrant is solid light gray. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation throughout.

Description

A pixelated photo of a person in a dark jacket with a light collar, next to text displaying dates and "i miss you" on black and gray backgrounds.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200708040038271777533056

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • 1-18-91 5-2-07 i miss you
  • pixelated photo dark jacket
  • four quadrant collage
  • i miss you two periods

Preprocessing Notes

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

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

  • 1-18-91
  • 5-2-07
  • i miss you
  • ..

Wordwall

  • pixelated photo
  • dark jacket
  • light collar
  • outdoor background
  • 1-18-91
  • 5-2-07
  • i miss you
  • two periods
  • black background
  • light gray background
  • four quadrants
  • white pixelated text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708040038271777533056
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.9 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/99/997283aedb9fa7cf29cd4312cbc947b2337b5c5838bf8eb33b5cfe23ec937416.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC
Archive ID
997283aedb9fa7cf
SHA-256
997283aedb9fa7cf29cd4312cbc947b2337b5c5838bf8eb33b5cfe23ec937416
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:14 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.106588

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.938223onnx/unsafe0.106588onnx/nsfl0.066464onnx/nsfw0.040124
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A pixelated photo of a person in a dark jacket with a light collar, next to text displaying dates and "i miss you" on black and gray backgrounds.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 18:53 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,301 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 883

Review tags

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  • dark brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • sentimental (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text and photo collage (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray
  • dark brown
  • light brown
  • green

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • text blocks
  • photograph

Dense Caption

The image is divided into four quadrants. Top-left quadrant shows a pixelated photo of a person with short hair wearing a dark jacket with a light collar, seated outdoors with blurred green and brown background elements. Top-right quadrant displays white pixelated text "1-18-91" above a hyphen and "5-2-07" on a black background. Bottom-left quadrant shows white pixelated text "i miss you" with two periods below it on a black background. Bottom-right quadrant is solid light gray. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation throughout.

Description

A pixelated photo of a person in a dark jacket with a light collar, next to text displaying dates and "i miss you" on black and gray backgrounds.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200708040038271777533056

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • sentimental
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • 1-18-91 5-2-07 i miss you
  • pixelated photo dark jacket
  • four quadrant collage
  • i miss you two periods

Preprocessing Notes

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

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
  • low-resolution
  • text-and-photo collage

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • 1-18-91
  • 5-2-07
  • i miss you
  • ..

Wordwall

  • pixelated photo
  • dark jacket
  • light collar
  • outdoor background
  • 1-18-91
  • 5-2-07
  • i miss you
  • two periods
  • black background
  • light gray background
  • four quadrants
  • white pixelated text
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 10:21 UTC
Run
52
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)
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
200708040038271777533056
Archive entry
200708040038271777533056.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 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#200708040038271777533056.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708040038271777533056.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016