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A split-screen image with a person's legs on the left and purple text on a red background on the right.

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A split-screen image with a person's legs on the left and purple text on a red background on the right.

A split-screen image with a person's legs on the left and purple text on a red background on the right. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split-screen
  • left side: person's legs
  • right side: text on solid background

Dense Caption

Left side shows a person's lower legs and feet wearing dark pants, blue sneakers with white soles, and pink socks; a small red heart symbol is visible on the ground. Right side features a solid red background with purple pixelated text reading "<3 <3 love is special" in stacked lines, where "<3" represents heart symbols. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated style typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • A split-screen image with a person's legs on the left and purple text on a red background on 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
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person legs sneakers socks
  • red background purple text
  • love is special
  • heart symbol text
  • split screen pixelated
  • blue sneakers pink socks
  • red heart ground
  • text <3 <3 love is special

Objects

  • heart symbol

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • <3 <3
  • love
  • is
  • special

Wordwall

  • split-screen
  • lower legs
  • dark pants
  • blue sneakers
  • pink socks
  • red heart symbol
  • solid red background
  • purple text
  • <3 <3
  • love is special
  • pixelated style
  • low-resolution
  • stacked text
  • heart symbols

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200802261619261119919033
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/aa/aac61cab4284212719d70e93bab3102cd9f5563ecc4edb38bcf343a36e05c339.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 UTC
Archive ID
aac61cab42842127
SHA-256
aac61cab4284212719d70e93bab3102cd9f5563ecc4edb38bcf343a36e05c339
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 30, 2026 at 08:43 UTC
Run
15966
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.003065

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
August 7, 2026 at 16:57 UTC
Run
1272
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:24 UTC
Run
1135
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A split-screen image with a person's legs on the left and purple text on a red background on the right.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 13:09 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
11,079 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,141, response 728

Review tags

  • red (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pants (object, 0.80)
  • sneakers (object, 0.80)
  • socks (object, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
  • digital graphics (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • purple
  • blue
  • white
  • pink
  • dark gray

Composition

  • split-screen
  • left side: person's legs
  • right side: text on solid background

Dense Caption

Left side shows a person's lower legs and feet wearing dark pants, blue sneakers with white soles, and pink socks; a small red heart symbol is visible on the ground. Right side features a solid red background with purple pixelated text reading "<3 <3 love is special" in stacked lines, where "<3" represents heart symbols. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated style typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • A split-screen image with a person's legs on the left and purple text on a red background on 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
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Mood

  • affectionate
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • red background purple text
  • love is special
  • heart symbol text
  • split screen pixelated
  • blue sneakers pink socks
  • red heart ground
  • text <3 <3 love is special

Objects

  • sneakers
  • socks
  • pants
  • heart symbol
  • text

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • digital graphics

Subjects

  • person
  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • <3 <3
  • love
  • is
  • special

Wordwall

  • split-screen
  • lower legs
  • dark pants
  • blue sneakers
  • pink socks
  • red heart symbol
  • solid red background
  • purple text
  • <3 <3
  • love is special
  • pixelated style
  • low-resolution
  • stacked text
  • heart symbols
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 04:16 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
200802261619261119919033
Archive entry
200802261619261119919033.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 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#200802261619261119919033.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200802261619261119919033.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016