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A static digital image displays cyan text on a black background with pink symbols beneath each text block.

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A static digital image displays cyan text on a black background with pink symbols beneath each text block.

A static digital image displays cyan text on a black background with pink symbols beneath each text block. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shar…

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Source terms

Animation Summary

  • No animation observed; the image is static with three of text and symbols

Composition

  • three horizontal
  • left-aligned text
  • gray overlay on right

Dense Caption

The image shows three identical horizontal rows of cyan text reading "We belong together, just like a puzzle..." followed by "<3lolz" and a pink symbol. The top row's symbol is a pink heart, the middle row's is a pink downward-pointing chevron, and the bottom row's is a pink dot. The background is solid black. The text uses a pixelated font. The bottom-left corner shows partial text continuation. The right side of the image has a gray rectangular overlay obscuring part of the content.

Description

  • A static digital image displays cyan text on a black background with pink symbols beneath each text block.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan text black background pink heart
  • text-based pixelated icon
  • pink chevron symbol pink dot symbol
  • We belong together just like a puzzle
  • <3lolz pink heart chevron dot
  • gray overlay text continuation

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: No animation observed; the image is static with three rows of text and symbols.
  • quarantined composition: three horizontal rows

Visible Text

  • We belong together, just like a puzzle...
  • <3lolz

Wordwall

  • cyan text
  • black background
  • pink heart symbol
  • pink chevron symbol
  • pink dot symbol
  • pixelated font
  • gray overlay
  • partial text continuation

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090309150113724382626
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:54 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.6 KB
Motion
Animated (7 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ad/ad34cbad9befbe2f7d9948df0a19fb5d45acbc53b9ae4cc48d6f801e24195ae6.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:54 UTC
Archive ID
ad34cbad9befbe2f
SHA-256
ad34cbad9befbe2f7d9948df0a19fb5d45acbc53b9ae4cc48d6f801e24195ae6
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:25 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.089025

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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A static digital image displays cyan text on a black background with pink symbols beneath each text block.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 02:17 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,038 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,103, response 701

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No animation observed; the image is static with three of text and symbols

Colors

  • cyan
  • black
  • pink
  • gray

Composition

  • three horizontal
  • left-aligned text
  • gray overlay on right

Dense Caption

The image shows three identical horizontal rows of cyan text reading "We belong together, just like a puzzle..." followed by "<3lolz" and a pink symbol. The top row's symbol is a pink heart, the middle row's is a pink downward-pointing chevron, and the bottom row's is a pink dot. The background is solid black. The text uses a pixelated font. The bottom-left corner shows partial text continuation. The right side of the image has a gray rectangular overlay obscuring part of the content.

Description

  • A static digital image displays cyan text on a black background with pink symbols beneath each text block.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • 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

Mood

  • affectionate
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan text black background pink heart
  • text-based pixelated icon
  • pink chevron symbol pink dot symbol
  • We belong together just like a puzzle
  • <3lolz pink heart chevron dot
  • gray overlay text continuation

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: No animation observed; the image is static with three rows of text and symbols.
  • quarantined composition: three horizontal rows

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • We belong together, just like a puzzle...
  • <3lolz

Wordwall

  • cyan text
  • black background
  • pink heart symbol
  • pink chevron symbol
  • pink dot symbol
  • pixelated font
  • gray overlay
  • partial text continuation
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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
20090309150113724382626
Archive entry
20090309150113724382626.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:54 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#20090309150113724382626.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090309150113724382626.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016