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Two pixelated square figures holding hands above a black bar with text, with small pixel clusters to the right.

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Two pixelated square figures holding hands above a black bar with text, with small pixel clusters to the right.

Two pixelated square figures holding hands above a black bar with text, with small pixel clusters to the right. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • text on bar changes from 'shake' to 'that' to 'thing'

Animation Summary

  • Text on the black bar changes from 'shake' to 'that' to 'thing' while figures and background remain static.

Composition

  • figures centered above bar
  • text on bar
  • clusters to right

Dense Caption

Two pixelated square figures with simple facial features hold hands above a black bar. The bar displays 'shake' in the first observation, 'that' in the second, and 'thing' in the third. Small pixel clusters appear to the right of the bar in all observations. The figures have short limbs and stand on the bar. The background is white. The figures and bar remain static across observations; only the text on the bar changes.

Description

  • Two pixelated square figures holding hands above a black bar with text, with small pixel clusters to the 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

  • two square figures holding hands
  • black bar text shake that thing
  • pixelated figures white background
  • small pixel clusters right

Visible Text

  • DANCE, DANCE
  • shake
  • that
  • thing

Wordwall

  • two square figures
  • holding hands
  • black bar
  • text: shake
  • text: that
  • text: thing
  • small pixel clusters
  • white background
  • pixelated style
  • static figures

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200810011335001107202522
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.8 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a4/a4ed2d310355973db7919bd410ec43382d95479c9808d23f7a18f3e754ed2db7.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC
Archive ID
a4ed2d310355973d
SHA-256
a4ed2d310355973db7919bd410ec43382d95479c9808d23f7a18f3e754ed2db7
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:20 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.087688

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.916284onnx/unsafe0.087688onnx/nsfw0.047735onnx/nsfl0.039953
Enrichment records (1)
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Two pixelated square figures holding hands above a black bar with text, with small pixel clusters to the right.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 02:29 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,091 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 713

Review tags

  • holding hands (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • repetitive (mood, 0.80)
  • black bar (object, 0.80)
  • small pixel clusters (object, 0.80)
  • text on bar changes from shake to that to thing (other, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • monochrome (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • two square figures (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding hands

Animation

  • text on bar changes from 'shake' to 'that' to 'thing'

Animation Summary

  • Text on the black bar changes from 'shake' to 'that' to 'thing' while figures and background remain static.

Colors

  • black
  • white

Composition

  • figures centered above bar
  • text on bar
  • clusters to right

Dense Caption

Two pixelated square figures with simple facial features hold hands above a black bar. The bar displays 'shake' in the first observation, 'that' in the second, and 'thing' in the third. Small pixel clusters appear to the right of the bar in all observations. The figures have short limbs and stand on the bar. The background is white. The figures and bar remain static across observations; only the text on the bar changes.

Description

  • Two pixelated square figures holding hands above a black bar with text, with small pixel clusters to the 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

  • playful
  • repetitive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • two square figures holding hands
  • black bar text shake that thing
  • pixelated figures white background
  • small pixel clusters right

Objects

  • black bar
  • small pixel clusters

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • monochrome

Subjects

  • two square figures

Visible Text

  • DANCE, DANCE
  • shake
  • that
  • thing

Wordwall

  • two square figures
  • holding hands
  • black bar
  • text: shake
  • text: that
  • text: thing
  • small pixel clusters
  • white background
  • pixelated style
  • static figures
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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
200810011335001107202522
Archive entry
200810011335001107202522.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 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#200810011335001107202522.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200810011335001107202522.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016