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Pixelated anime-style image of two characters with text overlays expressing affection and shyness.

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Pixelated anime-style image of two characters with text overlays expressing affection and shyness.

Pixelated anime-style image of two characters with text overlays expressing affection and shyness. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • two characters side-by-side
  • text overlays at top-right and bottom-left/bottom-right

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated scene featuring two animated characters. On the left, a character with light skin, blue hair, and green eyes wears a red robe with a yellow collar. To the right, another character has long brown hair covering their face, wearing dark clothing with green accents. The background is a gradient of light blue sky above green terrain. Text overlays include "awwww it's taang" in black pixelated font at top-right; "i'm not a shipper of it but......" in black pixelated font at bottom-left; and "it's cute! <333" in black pixelated font at bottom-right.

Description

  • Pixelated anime-style image of two characters with text overlays expressing affection and shyness.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Taang (character name from text)

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: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200709121704211651558739

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • anime characters pixelated text
  • red robe yellow collar brown hair
  • light blue sky green terrain
  • awwww it's taang cute <333

Visible Text

  • awwww it's taang
  • i'm not a shipper of it but......
  • it's cute! <333

Visually Supported Entities

  • Taang (character name from text)

Wordwall

  • anime characters
  • pixelated text
  • red robe with yellow collar
  • long brown hair covering face
  • light blue sky background
  • green terrain background
  • black pixelated font
  • text: awwww it's taang
  • text: i'm not a shipper of it but......
  • text: it's cute! <333

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709121704211651558739
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:44 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.1 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b5/b579564cb764731717e757bf711f20a8aeaf05c9096bc10b0fd2af17f3809c18.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:44 UTC
Archive ID
b579564cb7647317
SHA-256
b579564cb764731717e757bf711f20a8aeaf05c9096bc10b0fd2af17f3809c18
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:48 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.104432

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.924481onnx/unsafe0.104432onnx/nsfw0.065259onnx/nsfl0.039172
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Pixelated anime-style image of two characters with text overlays expressing affection and shyness.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 01:31 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,644 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 800

Review tags

  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • cute (mood, 0.80)
  • shy (mood, 0.80)
  • green accents on clothing (object, 0.80)
  • red robe (object, 0.80)
  • yellow collar (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution digital rendering (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated anime art style (style, 0.80)
  • character with long brown hair covering face (subject, 0.80)
  • light skinned character with blue hair (subject, 0.80)
  • two anime characters (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • character with long brown hair covers face with hair

Colors

  • light blue
  • green
  • red
  • brown
  • black
  • yellow

Composition

  • two characters side-by-side
  • text overlays at top-right and bottom-left/bottom-right

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated scene featuring two animated characters. On the left, a character with light skin, blue hair, and green eyes wears a red robe with a yellow collar. To the right, another character has long brown hair covering their face, wearing dark clothing with green accents. The background is a gradient of light blue sky above green terrain. Text overlays include "awwww it's taang" in black pixelated font at top-right; "i'm not a shipper of it but......" in black pixelated font at bottom-left; and "it's cute! <333" in black pixelated font at bottom-right.

Description

  • Pixelated anime-style image of two characters with text overlays expressing affection and shyness.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Taang (character name from text)

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: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200709121704211651558739

Mood

  • affectionate
  • shy
  • cute

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • red robe yellow collar brown hair
  • light blue sky green terrain
  • awwww it's taang cute <333

Objects

  • red robe
  • yellow collar
  • green accents on clothing

Style

  • pixelated anime art style
  • low-resolution digital rendering

Subjects

  • two anime characters
  • light-skinned character with blue hair
  • character with long brown hair covering face

Visible Text

  • awwww it's taang
  • i'm not a shipper of it but......
  • it's cute! <333

Visually Supported Entities

  • Taang (character name from text)

Wordwall

  • anime characters
  • pixelated text
  • red robe with yellow collar
  • long brown hair covering face
  • light blue sky background
  • green terrain background
  • black pixelated font
  • text: awwww it's taang
  • text: i'm not a shipper of it but......
  • text: it's cute! <333
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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
200709121704211651558739
Archive entry
200709121704211651558739.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:44 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#200709121704211651558739.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709121704211651558739.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016