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A pixelated image divided into four quadrants with a person in the top-left, blue text in the top-right, red text in the bottom-left, and a gray square in the bottom-right.

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A pixelated image divided into four quadrants with a person in the top-left, blue text in the top-right, red text in the bottom-left, and a gray square in the bottom-right.

A pixelated image divided into four quadrants with a person in the top-left, blue text in the top-right, red text in the bottom-left, and a gray square in the bottom-right. Animat…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • top-left person
  • top-right text
  • bottom-left text
  • bottom-right solid color

Dense Caption

Top-left quadrant shows a person with light brown hair and a dark shirt against a green background. Top-right quadrant contains blue pixelated text 'christofer drew'. Bottom-left quadrant displays red pixelated text 'loves me!'. Bottom-right quadrant is a solid gray square. All text uses a blocky, low-resolution font. The image has a pixelated, low-resolution appearance typical of early digital graphics.

Description

A pixelated image divided into four quadrants with a person in the top-left, blue text in the top-right, red text in the bottom-left, and a gray square in the bottom-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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • christofer drew loves me
  • pixelated four quadrant image
  • blue text red text gray square
  • low-resolution blocky font

Visible Text

  • christofer drew
  • loves me!

Wordwall

  • pixelated image
  • four quadrants
  • light brown hair
  • dark shirt
  • green background
  • blue text
  • red text
  • gray square
  • blocky font
  • low-resolution

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080822043959440857718
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
3.3 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/9e/9e1e532cfbb3e41b6aec996c2536bdb9b82fc3ebc0bd871d27dbe6ebcd7a1345.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 UTC
Archive ID
9e1e532cfbb3e41b
SHA-256
9e1e532cfbb3e41b6aec996c2536bdb9b82fc3ebc0bd871d27dbe6ebcd7a1345
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:17 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.119836

OpenAI category scores

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A pixelated image divided into four quadrants with a person in the top-left, blue text in the top-right, red text in the bottom-left, and a gray square in the bottom-right.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 21:01 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,268 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,104, response 679

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • dark (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • light brown
  • dark
  • green
  • blue
  • red
  • gray

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • top-left person
  • top-right text
  • bottom-left text
  • bottom-right solid color

Dense Caption

Top-left quadrant shows a person with light brown hair and a dark shirt against a green background. Top-right quadrant contains blue pixelated text 'christofer drew'. Bottom-left quadrant displays red pixelated text 'loves me!'. Bottom-right quadrant is a solid gray square. All text uses a blocky, low-resolution font. The image has a pixelated, low-resolution appearance typical of early digital graphics.

Description

A pixelated image divided into four quadrants with a person in the top-left, blue text in the top-right, red text in the bottom-left, and a gray square in the bottom-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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • christofer drew loves me
  • pixelated four quadrant image
  • blue text red text gray square
  • low-resolution blocky font

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • christofer drew
  • loves me!

Wordwall

  • pixelated image
  • four quadrants
  • light brown hair
  • dark shirt
  • green background
  • blue text
  • red text
  • gray square
  • blocky font
  • low-resolution
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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
20080822043959440857718
Archive entry
20080822043959440857718.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 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#20080822043959440857718.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080822043959440857718.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016