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A pixelated image shows a person with brown hair on the left, next to a blue background with white text reading "JOSH DENSON LOVES HEATHER STEVENSON".

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A pixelated image shows a person with brown hair on the left, next to a blue background with white text reading "JOSH DENSON LOVES HEATHER STEVENSON".

A pixelated image shows a person with brown hair on the left, next to a blue background with white text reading "JOSH DENSON LOVES HEATHER STEVENSON". Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split vertical
  • text on right
  • figure on left

Dense Caption

The image is split vertically. On the left, a pixelated figure with brown hair is visible; the face is partially obscured by pixelation. On the right, a solid blue background displays white pixelated text in four lines: "JOSH DENSON" (top), "LOVES" (second), "HEATHER" (third), and "STEVENSON" (bottom). The text uses a blocky, retro digital font. The left side shows a person with light skin tone and brown hair, with visible strands and partial facial features including eyes and a mouth. The right side's text is fully legible. The image has low resolution and pixelation typical of early digital graphics.

Description

A pixelated image shows a person with brown hair on the left, next to a blue background with white text reading "JOSH DENSON LOVES HEATHER STEVENSON".

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • josh denson loves heather stevenson
  • brown hair blue background white text
  • pixelated retro digital text
  • split vertical composition

Visible Text

  • JOSH DENSON
  • LOVES
  • HEATHER
  • STEVENSON

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • blue background
  • white text
  • pixelated
  • JOSH DENSON
  • LOVES
  • HEATHER
  • STEVENSON
  • retro digital font
  • light skin tone
  • partial facial features
  • solid blue
  • blocky text
  • low resolution
  • split composition
  • text on right
  • figure on left

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070806145131100188867
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.7 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC
Archive ID
e1d2443e95f6eaae
SHA-256
e1d2443e95f6eaae8794eff2a48a63511e9a93447b240c9655d3319ba1bdf0a4
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:54 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.116138

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

A pixelated image shows a person with brown hair on the left, next to a blue background with white text reading "JOSH DENSON LOVES HEATHER STEVENSON".

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 19:47 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,618 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,145, response 756

Review tags

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  • light skin tone (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
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  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • brown
  • light skin tone

Composition

  • split vertical
  • text on right
  • figure on left

Dense Caption

The image is split vertically. On the left, a pixelated figure with brown hair is visible; the face is partially obscured by pixelation. On the right, a solid blue background displays white pixelated text in four lines: "JOSH DENSON" (top), "LOVES" (second), "HEATHER" (third), and "STEVENSON" (bottom). The text uses a blocky, retro digital font. The left side shows a person with light skin tone and brown hair, with visible strands and partial facial features including eyes and a mouth. The right side's text is fully legible. The image has low resolution and pixelation typical of early digital graphics.

Description

A pixelated image shows a person with brown hair on the left, next to a blue background with white text reading "JOSH DENSON LOVES HEATHER STEVENSON".

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • josh denson loves heather stevenson
  • brown hair blue background white text
  • pixelated retro digital text
  • split vertical composition

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • JOSH DENSON
  • LOVES
  • HEATHER
  • STEVENSON

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • blue background
  • white text
  • pixelated
  • JOSH DENSON
  • LOVES
  • HEATHER
  • STEVENSON
  • retro digital font
  • light skin tone
  • partial facial features
  • solid blue
  • blocky text
  • low resolution
  • split composition
  • text on right
  • figure on left
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 10:36 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
20070806145131100188867
Archive entry
20070806145131100188867.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 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#20070806145131100188867.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070806145131100188867.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016