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A pixelated image of two people embracing, with text overlays in blue and purple fonts.

A pixelated image of two people embracing, with text overlays in blue and purple fonts. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, La…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • text overlays

Dense Caption

The image is a pixelated composite divided into four quadrants. Top-left quadrant shows two people embracing: one in a green shirt, the other in a light-colored top. Top-right quadrant contains blue text: 'matt + tori = love FORFV'. Bottom-left quadrant has purple text: 'hes my darling. (:''. Bottom-right quadrant is solid gray. The image uses a low-resolution, blocky rendering style typical of early digital graphics. Text elements are in sans-serif fonts with distinct color coding.

Description

  • A pixelated image of two people embracing, with text overlays in blue and purple fonts.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • matt
  • tori

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • matt tori love
  • hes my darling
  • pixelated buddy icon
  • four quadrant text
  • green shirt embrace
  • blue purple text
  • FORFV text
  • affectionate pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • Image appears to be a static composite; no visible animation changes detected.
  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • matt +
  • tori =
  • love
  • FORFV
  • hes my
  • darling.
  • (:
  • matt
  • tori
  • hes my darling. (:

Wordwall

  • two people embracing
  • green shirt
  • light-colored top
  • blue text
  • purple text
  • solid gray quadrant
  • pixelated rendering
  • low-resolution
  • blocky style
  • text overlays

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200907101950021595323026
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.3 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b7/b7ee8a06057608823dde0cab2b1a598a452f869bc574be17a42710f67888eddb.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 UTC
Archive ID
b7ee8a0605760882
SHA-256
b7ee8a06057608823dde0cab2b1a598a452f869bc574be17a42710f67888eddb
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 12, 2026 at 18:59 UTC
Run
1287
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.002818

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:32 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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A pixelated image of two people embracing, with text overlays in blue and purple fonts.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 14:25 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,353 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 823

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • light colored (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • sentimental (mood, 0.80)
  • text overlays (object, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • embrace (subject, 0.80)
  • two people (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • embrace

Colors

  • green
  • light-colored
  • blue
  • purple
  • gray

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • text overlays

Dense Caption

The image is a pixelated composite divided into four quadrants. Top-left quadrant shows two people embracing: one in a green shirt, the other in a light-colored top. Top-right quadrant contains blue text: 'matt + tori = love FORFV'. Bottom-left quadrant has purple text: 'hes my darling. (:''. Bottom-right quadrant is solid gray. The image uses a low-resolution, blocky rendering style typical of early digital graphics. Text elements are in sans-serif fonts with distinct color coding.

Description

  • A pixelated image of two people embracing, with text overlays in blue and purple fonts.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • matt
  • tori

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • affectionate
  • sentimental

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • matt tori love
  • hes my darling
  • pixelated buddy icon
  • four quadrant text
  • green shirt embrace
  • blue purple text
  • FORFV text
  • affectionate pixel art

Objects

  • text overlays

Preprocessing Notes

  • Image appears to be a static composite; no visible animation changes detected.
  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky

Subjects

  • two people
  • embrace

Visible Text

  • matt +
  • tori =
  • love
  • FORFV
  • hes my
  • darling.
  • (:
  • matt
  • tori
  • hes my darling. (:

Wordwall

  • two people embracing
  • green shirt
  • light-colored top
  • blue text
  • purple text
  • solid gray quadrant
  • pixelated rendering
  • low-resolution
  • blocky style
  • text overlays
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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
200907101950021595323026
Archive entry
200907101950021595323026.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 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#200907101950021595323026.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200907101950021595323026.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016