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six pixelated images with text overlays and symbols, each in a distinct style and color scheme

six pixelated images with text overlays and symbols, each in a distinct style and color scheme. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Ic…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text overlays
  • symbolic elements

Dense Caption

Six distinct pixelated images arranged in a 2x3 grid. Top-left: colorful abstract background with black text reading "Its as easy as 1 2.. 1234". Top-middle: black background with white text reading "Theres only 1 thing". Top-right: white background with black text reading "2 do" and a black outline of a hand holding a phone. Bottom-left: gray textured background with black text reading "3 words" and a pixelated cartoon character. Bottom-middle: white background with black text reading "4 you!" and a gray outline of a figure with a cross. Bottom-right: white background with black text reading "I LOVE U!" and a red heart pierced by an arrow.

Description

  • six pixelated images with text overlays and symbols, each in a distinct style and color scheme

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • 1234 text
  • I LOVE U!
  • 2 do
  • 3 words
  • 4 you!
  • heart arrow
  • phone hand
  • cartoon character

Objects

  • heart
  • arrow

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A grid of six pixelated images with text overlays and symbols, each in a distinct style and color scheme.
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x3 grid

Style

  • cartoon

Subjects

  • cartoon character
  • hand
  • figure
  • heart
  • arrow

Visible Text

  • Its as easy as 1 2.. 1234
  • Theres only 1 thing
  • 2 do
  • 3 words
  • 4 you!
  • I LOVE U!

Wordwall

  • colorful abstract background
  • black text "Its as easy as 1 2.. 1234"
  • black background
  • white text "Theres only 1 thing"
  • white background
  • black text "2 do"
  • hand holding phone outline
  • gray textured background
  • black text "3 words"
  • pixelated cartoon character
  • black text "4 you!"
  • gray figure outline
  • black text "I LOVE U!"
  • red heart
  • arrow
  • pixelated
  • text overlays

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200812171605552132106914
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
7.6 KB
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/9a/9a30886914c7c75bdb295eda822fb51c92efca61681d12692f4b283f5397709e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 UTC
Archive ID
9a30886914c7c75b
SHA-256
9a30886914c7c75bdb295eda822fb51c92efca61681d12692f4b283f5397709e
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:15 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.082618

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

six pixelated images with text overlays and symbols, each in a distinct style and color scheme

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 14:08 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,660 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,168, response 851

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • piercing (action, 0.80)
  • cartoon (style, 0.80)
  • graffiti style (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text heavy (style, 0.80)
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  • cartoon character (subject, 0.80)
  • figure (subject, 0.80)
  • hand (subject, 0.80)
  • heart (subject, 0.80)
  • phone (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding
  • piercing

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray
  • red
  • yellow
  • blue
  • green
  • purple
  • orange

Composition

  • text overlays
  • symbolic elements

Dense Caption

Six distinct pixelated images arranged in a 2x3 grid. Top-left: colorful abstract background with black text reading "Its as easy as 1 2.. 1234". Top-middle: black background with white text reading "Theres only 1 thing". Top-right: white background with black text reading "2 do" and a black outline of a hand holding a phone. Bottom-left: gray textured background with black text reading "3 words" and a pixelated cartoon character. Bottom-middle: white background with black text reading "4 you!" and a gray outline of a figure with a cross. Bottom-right: white background with black text reading "I LOVE U!" and a red heart pierced by an arrow.

Description

  • six pixelated images with text overlays and symbols, each in a distinct style and color scheme

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

Mood

  • playful
  • romantic
  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • 1234 text
  • I LOVE U!
  • 2 do
  • 3 words
  • 4 you!
  • heart arrow
  • phone hand
  • cartoon character

Objects

  • phone
  • heart
  • arrow

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A grid of six pixelated images with text overlays and symbols, each in a distinct style and color scheme.
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x3 grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-heavy
  • graffiti-style
  • cartoon

Subjects

  • cartoon character
  • hand
  • phone
  • figure
  • heart
  • arrow

Visible Text

  • Its as easy as 1 2.. 1234
  • Theres only 1 thing
  • 2 do
  • 3 words
  • 4 you!
  • I LOVE U!

Wordwall

  • colorful abstract background
  • black text "Its as easy as 1 2.. 1234"
  • black background
  • white text "Theres only 1 thing"
  • white background
  • black text "2 do"
  • hand holding phone outline
  • gray textured background
  • black text "3 words"
  • pixelated cartoon character
  • black text "4 you!"
  • gray figure outline
  • black text "I LOVE U!"
  • red heart
  • arrow
  • pixelated
  • text overlays
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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
200812171605552132106914
Archive entry
200812171605552132106914.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 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#200812171605552132106914.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200812171605552132106914.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016