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Two cartoon characters in a close embrace with a text overlay reading 'such a cute couple!' on a dark background.

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Two cartoon characters in a close embrace with a text overlay reading 'such a cute couple!' on a dark background.

Two cartoon characters in a close embrace with a text overlay reading 'such a cute couple!' on a dark background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIco…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static

Animation Summary

  • Static image with no visible motion changes.

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered characters
  • text overlay

Dense Caption

Two cartoon characters in a close embrace: one with dark hair and light skin, the other with light brown hair and light skin. The character on the left has a dark circular mark on their chest. The background is dark with subtle light patterns. A text overlay reads 'such a cute couple!' in white pixelated font. The image is pixelated with a low-resolution appearance.

Description

  • Two cartoon characters in a close embrace with a text overlay reading 'such a cute couple!' on a dark background.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cute couple cartoon
  • two characters embrace
  • text such a cute couple
  • pixelated cartoon couple
  • dark background cartoon
  • light skin cartoon characters
  • dark circular mark character
  • text overlay cartoon

Objects

  • text overlay

Preprocessing Notes

  • image is pixelated

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 topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • cartoon

Visible Text

  • such a cute couple!

Wordwall

  • two cartoon characters
  • close embrace
  • dark background
  • text overlay
  • such a cute couple
  • dark hair
  • light brown hair
  • light skin
  • dark circular mark
  • pixelated

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070830110640417417414
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/c7/c7850bc32d98afca923d4e79ebfe050abae1df1bf16b8ca64d216113ec24c2f9.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 UTC
Archive ID
c7850bc32d98afca
SHA-256
c7850bc32d98afca923d4e79ebfe050abae1df1bf16b8ca64d216113ec24c2f9
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 23, 2026 at 17:56 UTC
Run
1327
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.243006

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:40 UTC
Run
1140
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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

Two cartoon characters in a close embrace with a text overlay reading 'such a cute couple!' on a dark background.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 07:33 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,854 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,139, response 748

Review tags

  • embrace (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark (color, 0.80)
  • light (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • cute (mood, 0.80)
  • text overlay (object, 0.80)
  • cartoon (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • two cartoon characters (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • embrace

Animation

  • static

Animation Summary

  • Static image with no visible motion changes.

Colors

  • dark
  • light
  • white
  • brown
  • black

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered characters
  • text overlay

Dense Caption

Two cartoon characters in a close embrace: one with dark hair and light skin, the other with light brown hair and light skin. The character on the left has a dark circular mark on their chest. The background is dark with subtle light patterns. A text overlay reads 'such a cute couple!' in white pixelated font. The image is pixelated with a low-resolution appearance.

Description

  • Two cartoon characters in a close embrace with a text overlay reading 'such a cute couple!' on a dark background.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • cute
  • affectionate

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cute couple cartoon
  • two characters embrace
  • text such a cute couple
  • pixelated cartoon couple
  • dark background cartoon
  • light skin cartoon characters
  • dark circular mark character
  • text overlay cartoon

Objects

  • text overlay

Preprocessing Notes

  • image is pixelated

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • cartoon

Subjects

  • two cartoon characters

Visible Text

  • such a cute couple!

Wordwall

  • two cartoon characters
  • close embrace
  • dark background
  • text overlay
  • such a cute couple
  • dark hair
  • light brown hair
  • light skin
  • dark circular mark
  • pixelated
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 13:39 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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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
20070830110640417417414
Archive entry
20070830110640417417414.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 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#20070830110640417417414.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070830110640417417414.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016