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Two speech bubbles with handwritten 'hello.' text, red hearts, and partial 'my name is' text below, on a light background.

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Two speech bubbles with handwritten 'hello.' text, red hearts, and partial 'my name is' text below, on a light background.

Two speech bubbles with handwritten 'hello.' text, red hearts, and partial 'my name is' text below, on a light background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • overlapping bubbles
  • text below bubbles
  • heart icons to right of text

Dense Caption

Two overlapping speech bubbles on a light beige background. Left bubble contains handwritten-style 'hello.' text in gray, with a red heart icon to the right of the text. Below the left bubble, black pixelated text reads 'my name is'. Right bubble contains identical handwritten 'hello.' text in gray, with a red heart icon to the right of the text. Partial black pixelated text 'AP' appears below the right bubble. Both bubbles have thin gray outlines. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated appearance with visible dithering.

Description

  • Two speech bubbles with handwritten 'hello.' text, red hearts, and partial 'my name is' text below, on a light 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

  • hello my name is
  • red heart speech bubble
  • pixelated hello text
  • buddy icon hello

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution

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

Visible Text

  • hello.
  • my name is
  • AP

Wordwall

  • two speech bubbles
  • handwritten 'hello.' text
  • red heart icons
  • black pixelated text
  • light beige background
  • gray bubble outlines
  • low-resolution pixels
  • dithering pattern

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070902074127449796938
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.9 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ca/ca9c6fbf9b4eee6a6214440730acd03442027751c3091767faa32b5366dc3d97.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 UTC
Archive ID
ca9c6fbf9b4eee6a
SHA-256
ca9c6fbf9b4eee6a6214440730acd03442027751c3091767faa32b5366dc3d97
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 31, 2026 at 09:57 UTC
Run
1249
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000493

OpenAI category scores

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onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:42 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.078906

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Two speech bubbles with handwritten 'hello.' text, red hearts, and partial 'my name is' text below, on a light background.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 09:04 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,559 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,142, response 770

Review tags

  • beige (color, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • casual (mood, 0.80)
  • friendly (mood, 0.80)
  • handwritten (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • hearts (subject, 0.80)
  • speech bubbles (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • beige
  • gray
  • red
  • black

Composition

  • overlapping bubbles
  • text below bubbles
  • heart icons to right of text

Dense Caption

Two overlapping speech bubbles on a light beige background. Left bubble contains handwritten-style 'hello.' text in gray, with a red heart icon to the right of the text. Below the left bubble, black pixelated text reads 'my name is'. Right bubble contains identical handwritten 'hello.' text in gray, with a red heart icon to the right of the text. Partial black pixelated text 'AP' appears below the right bubble. Both bubbles have thin gray outlines. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated appearance with visible dithering.

Description

  • Two speech bubbles with handwritten 'hello.' text, red hearts, and partial 'my name is' text below, on a light 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

  • friendly
  • casual

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hello my name is
  • red heart speech bubble
  • pixelated hello text
  • buddy icon hello

Objects

  • hearts

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution

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

  • pixelated
  • handwritten
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • speech bubbles
  • hearts

Visible Text

  • hello.
  • my name is
  • AP

Wordwall

  • two speech bubbles
  • handwritten 'hello.' text
  • red heart icons
  • black pixelated text
  • light beige background
  • gray bubble outlines
  • low-resolution pixels
  • dithering pattern
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 13:55 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)
Raw JSON
Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
20070902074127449796938
Archive entry
20070902074127449796938.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 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#20070902074127449796938.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070902074127449796938.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016