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Pixelated anime-style image of two characters with one embracing the other, accompanied by blue text on a black background.

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Pixelated anime-style image of two characters with one embracing the other, accompanied by blue text on a black background.

Pixelated anime-style image of two characters with one embracing the other, accompanied by blue text on a black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split layout: left image, right text

Dense Caption

Left side shows pixelated anime characters: front character has light brown hair and wears dark clothing with yellow accents; back character has gray hair. Right side features blue pixelated text on black background: 'FRIENDS' at top, three dots below it, then 'together we stand' on left and 'divided we fall' on right.

Description

  • Pixelated anime-style image of two characters with one embracing the other, accompanied by blue text on a black background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200710281039111650166712
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance era: 2007-2016

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime

Named Entities

  • FRIENDS
  • together we stand
  • divided we fall

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • anime characters together we stand divided we fall
  • light brown hair gray hair dark clothing yellow accents blue text black background
  • pixelated anime friends three dots
  • FRIENDS ... together we stand divided we fall

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears cropped on top-left corner with partial pixelation

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime

Visible Text

  • FRIENDS
  • ...
  • together we stand
  • divided we fall

Visually Supported Entities

  • two anime characters

Wordwall

  • anime characters
  • light brown hair
  • gray hair
  • dark clothing with yellow accents
  • blue pixelated text
  • black background
  • FRIENDS
  • three dots
  • together we stand
  • divided we fall

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200710281039111650166712
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.2 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/df/dfbcb926cb1fd63e3cc16165bd9fbfa48dcbcfe15c65c546bdabad062ffd569a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 UTC
Archive ID
dfbcb926cb1fd63e
SHA-256
dfbcb926cb1fd63e3cc16165bd9fbfa48dcbcfe15c65c546bdabad062ffd569a
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:53 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.198416

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.879949onnx/unsafe0.198416onnx/nsfw0.123190onnx/nsfl0.075226
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Pixelated anime-style image of two characters with one embracing the other, accompanied by blue text on a black background.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 13:22 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,862 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,101, response 787

Review tags

  • embrace (action, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • reflective (mood, 0.80)
  • somber (mood, 0.80)
  • text elements (object, 0.80)
  • anime style (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • one embracing the other (subject, 0.80)
  • two anime characters (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • embrace

Colors

  • light brown
  • gray
  • dark blue
  • yellow
  • blue
  • black

Composition

  • split layout: left image, right text

Dense Caption

Left side shows pixelated anime characters: front character has light brown hair and wears dark clothing with yellow accents; back character has gray hair. Right side features blue pixelated text on black background: 'FRIENDS' at top, three dots below it, then 'together we stand' on left and 'divided we fall' on right.

Description

  • Pixelated anime-style image of two characters with one embracing the other, accompanied by blue text on a black background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200710281039111650166712
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance era: 2007-2016

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime

Mood

  • somber
  • reflective

Named Entities

  • FRIENDS
  • together we stand
  • divided we fall

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • anime characters together we stand divided we fall
  • light brown hair gray hair dark clothing yellow accents blue text black background
  • pixelated anime friends three dots
  • FRIENDS ... together we stand divided we fall

Objects

  • text elements

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears cropped on top-left corner with partial pixelation

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime

Style

  • pixelated
  • anime-style

Subjects

  • two anime characters
  • one embracing the other

Visible Text

  • FRIENDS
  • ...
  • together we stand
  • divided we fall

Visually Supported Entities

  • two anime characters

Wordwall

  • anime characters
  • light brown hair
  • gray hair
  • dark clothing with yellow accents
  • blue pixelated text
  • black background
  • FRIENDS
  • three dots
  • together we stand
  • divided we fall
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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
200710281039111650166712
Archive entry
200710281039111650166712.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 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#200710281039111650166712.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200710281039111650166712.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016