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Two pixelated characters with speech bubbles; one blue, one yellow on left ; two pink and gray figures on right

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Two pixelated characters with speech bubbles; one blue, one yellow on left ; two pink and gray figures on right

Two pixelated characters with speech bubbles; one blue, one yellow on left ; two pink and gray figures on right. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcon…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static frames with no visible motion changes between observations

Composition

  • two side-by-side
  • characters positioned left-right in each

Dense Caption

Left panel shows a light blue character with white eyes and red chest patch standing beside a yellow character with white eyes and red chest patch against light green background. Yellow character has speech bubble reading "I think you're cute but I love me." Right panel shows pink character with white eyes, red mouth, and red heart on chest next to gray character with white eyes and red heart on chest against dark gray background; both have pixelated speech bubbles.

Description

  • Two pixelated characters with speech bubbles; one blue, one yellow on left ; two pink and gray figures on 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue yellow pink gray characters
  • cute but love me speech bubble
  • heart chest patches pixel art
  • two animation

Objects

  • speech bubble
  • heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Two pixelated characters with speech bubbles; one blue, one yellow on left panel; two pink and gray figures on right panel.
  • quarantined composition: characters positioned left-right in each panel
  • quarantined composition: two panels side-by-side
  • quarantined retrieval: two panel animation

Visible Text

  • I think you're cute but I love me.

Visually Supported Entities

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

Wordwall

  • light blue character
  • yellow character
  • pink character
  • gray character
  • white eyes
  • red chest patches
  • red hearts
  • light green background
  • dark gray background
  • speech bubbles

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200901081354461794582395
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
4.1 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a9/a9190b3a557e4615eabb16618464766bbb306ce7cd657510b93c8f144fc52275.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 UTC
Archive ID
a9190b3a557e4615
SHA-256
a9190b3a557e4615eabb16618464766bbb306ce7cd657510b93c8f144fc52275
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:23 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.077108

OpenAI category scores

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Two pixelated characters with speech bubbles; one blue, one yellow on left ; two pink and gray figures on right

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 17:12 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,290 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,145, response 666

Review tags

  • speaking (action, 0.80)
  • standing (action, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (object, 0.80)
  • speech bubble (object, 0.80)
  • 2d animation (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • blue figure (subject, 0.80)
  • gray figure (subject, 0.80)
  • pink figure (subject, 0.80)
  • yellow figure (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • standing
  • speaking

Animation

  • static frames with no visible motion changes between observations

Colors

  • light blue
  • yellow
  • pink
  • gray
  • white
  • red
  • light green
  • dark gray

Composition

  • two side-by-side
  • characters positioned left-right in each

Dense Caption

Left panel shows a light blue character with white eyes and red chest patch standing beside a yellow character with white eyes and red chest patch against light green background. Yellow character has speech bubble reading "I think you're cute but I love me." Right panel shows pink character with white eyes, red mouth, and red heart on chest next to gray character with white eyes and red heart on chest against dark gray background; both have pixelated speech bubbles.

Description

  • Two pixelated characters with speech bubbles; one blue, one yellow on left ; two pink and gray figures on 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • playful
  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue yellow pink gray characters
  • cute but love me speech bubble
  • heart chest patches pixel art
  • two animation

Objects

  • speech bubble
  • heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Two pixelated characters with speech bubbles; one blue, one yellow on left panel; two pink and gray figures on right panel.
  • quarantined composition: characters positioned left-right in each panel
  • quarantined composition: two panels side-by-side
  • quarantined retrieval: two panel animation

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • 2D animation

Subjects

  • blue figure
  • yellow figure
  • pink figure
  • gray figure

Visible Text

  • I think you're cute but I love me.

Visually Supported Entities

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

Wordwall

  • light blue character
  • yellow character
  • pink character
  • gray character
  • white eyes
  • red chest patches
  • red hearts
  • light green background
  • dark gray background
  • speech bubbles
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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
200901081354461794582395
Archive entry
200901081354461794582395.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 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#200901081354461794582395.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200901081354461794582395.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016