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A red background displays a photo of two people, with text reading 'i love you' and 'John <3 7-29-07' in light blue.

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A red background displays a photo of two people, with text reading 'i love you' and 'John <3 7-29-07' in light blue.

A red background displays a photo of two people, with text reading 'i love you' and 'John <3 7-29-07' in light blue. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Franks…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • red background
  • photo on left
  • text on right and below photo

Dense Caption

The image features a red background with a rectangular photo on the left showing two people: one with long light brown hair wearing dark sunglasses and a brown top, and another with short dark hair wearing a red top. To the right of the photo, light blue text reads 'i love you' in a pixelated font. Below the photo, light blue text reads 'John <3 7-29-07' in the same pixelated font. The photo has a slightly blurred quality, and the text appears to be rendered in a low-resolution, retro digital style.

Description

  • A red background displays a photo of two people, with text reading 'i love you' and 'John <3 7-29-07' in light blue.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background two people photo
  • i love you John 7-29-07
  • sunglasses long light brown hair
  • brown top red top

Visible Text

  • i love you
  • John <3
  • 7-29-07

Wordwall

  • red background
  • two people photo
  • light blue text
  • i love you
  • John <3
  • 7-29-07
  • sunglasses
  • long light brown hair
  • short dark hair
  • brown top
  • red top
  • pixelated font
  • blurred photo
  • retro digital style

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2007081407330538730349
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.9 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b6/b6573125d8599e72cadaa77a66b438bfc714fb87555bbb9258795851e840c45d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 UTC
Archive ID
b6573125d8599e72
SHA-256
b6573125d8599e72cadaa77a66b438bfc714fb87555bbb9258795851e840c45d
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:30 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.117632

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A red background displays a photo of two people, with text reading 'i love you' and 'John <3 7-29-07' in light blue.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 23:23 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,336 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 771

Review tags

  • red (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • personal (mood, 0.80)
  • brown top (object, 0.80)
  • red top (object, 0.80)
  • sunglasses (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • one with long light brown hair (subject, 0.80)
  • one with short dark hair (subject, 0.80)
  • two people (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • light blue
  • brown
  • dark brown
  • black

Composition

  • red background
  • photo on left
  • text on right and below photo

Dense Caption

The image features a red background with a rectangular photo on the left showing two people: one with long light brown hair wearing dark sunglasses and a brown top, and another with short dark hair wearing a red top. To the right of the photo, light blue text reads 'i love you' in a pixelated font. Below the photo, light blue text reads 'John <3 7-29-07' in the same pixelated font. The photo has a slightly blurred quality, and the text appears to be rendered in a low-resolution, retro digital style.

Description

  • A red background displays a photo of two people, with text reading 'i love you' and 'John <3 7-29-07' in light blue.

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

Mood

  • affectionate
  • personal

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  • red background two people photo
  • i love you John 7-29-07
  • sunglasses long light brown hair
  • brown top red top

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  • brown top
  • red top

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • two people
  • one with long light brown hair
  • one with short dark hair

Visible Text

  • i love you
  • John <3
  • 7-29-07

Wordwall

  • red background
  • two people photo
  • light blue text
  • i love you
  • John <3
  • 7-29-07
  • sunglasses
  • long light brown hair
  • short dark hair
  • brown top
  • red top
  • pixelated font
  • blurred photo
  • retro digital style
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 11:34 UTC
Run
52
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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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
2007081407330538730349
Archive entry
2007081407330538730349.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 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#2007081407330538730349.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2007081407330538730349.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016