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A split-screen buddy icon with yellow and gray backgrounds displaying text and cartoon characters.

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A split-screen buddy icon with yellow and gray backgrounds displaying text and cartoon characters.

A split-screen buddy icon with yellow and gray backgrounds displaying text and cartoon characters. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split-screen
  • four quadrants
  • text-heavy
  • character illustration

Dense Caption

The icon is divided into four quadrants. Top-left quadrant has yellow background with white text 'Maddy & Jon' in bold, pixelated font. Top-right quadrant has light gray background with white text 'Homies 4EVER !' in bold, pixelated font. Bottom-left quadrant shows cartoon characters: a blue figure, a yellow figure, and a gray figure with a speech bubble containing unreadable text. Bottom-right quadrant is solid light gray. All text uses a thick, blocky font with black outlines. The image has low resolution typical of early 2000s digital art.

Description

  • A split-screen buddy icon with yellow and gray backgrounds displaying text and cartoon characters.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Maddy Jon Homies 4EVER
  • buddy icon cartoon characters
  • yellow gray split screen
  • pixelated text buddy icon

Objects

  • speech bubble

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation detected; source metadata claims 'animated' but pixels show static image

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 topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • Maddy
  • &
  • Jon
  • Homies
  • 4EVER
  • !

Wordwall

  • yellow background
  • gray background
  • Maddy & Jon text
  • Homies 4EVER ! text
  • cartoon characters
  • speech bubble
  • blue figure
  • yellow figure
  • gray figure
  • pixelated font
  • blocky text
  • solid gray quadrant
  • low resolution
  • split-screen layout

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200901152203321755367275
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
5.2 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a8/a840bcf8affef6c89a427408fe2bab9a6751026df4b887c6deeafac48a0f067e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 UTC
Archive ID
a840bcf8affef6c8
SHA-256
a840bcf8affef6c89a427408fe2bab9a6751026df4b887c6deeafac48a0f067e
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:22 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.079152

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.933856onnx/unsafe0.079152onnx/nsfw0.040595onnx/nsfl0.038557
Enrichment records (1)
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A split-screen buddy icon with yellow and gray backgrounds displaying text and cartoon characters.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 18:23 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,986 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,106, response 815

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • speech bubble (object, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution digital art (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • cartoon characters (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • yellow
  • gray
  • blue
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • split-screen
  • four quadrants
  • text-heavy
  • character illustration

Dense Caption

The icon is divided into four quadrants. Top-left quadrant has yellow background with white text 'Maddy & Jon' in bold, pixelated font. Top-right quadrant has light gray background with white text 'Homies 4EVER !' in bold, pixelated font. Bottom-left quadrant shows cartoon characters: a blue figure, a yellow figure, and a gray figure with a speech bubble containing unreadable text. Bottom-right quadrant is solid light gray. All text uses a thick, blocky font with black outlines. The image has low resolution typical of early 2000s digital art.

Description

  • A split-screen buddy icon with yellow and gray backgrounds displaying text and cartoon characters.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Maddy Jon Homies 4EVER
  • buddy icon cartoon characters
  • yellow gray split screen
  • pixelated text buddy icon

Objects

  • speech bubble

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation detected; source metadata claims 'animated' but pixels show static image

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 topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky font
  • low-resolution digital art

Subjects

  • cartoon characters

Visible Text

  • Maddy
  • &
  • Jon
  • Homies
  • 4EVER
  • !

Wordwall

  • yellow background
  • gray background
  • Maddy & Jon text
  • Homies 4EVER ! text
  • cartoon characters
  • speech bubble
  • blue figure
  • yellow figure
  • gray figure
  • pixelated font
  • blocky text
  • solid gray quadrant
  • low resolution
  • split-screen layout
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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
200901152203321755367275
Archive entry
200901152203321755367275.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 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#200901152203321755367275.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200901152203321755367275.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016