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Pixelated text and symbols on black background with pink and yellow elements, showing two identical static frames side-by-side.

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Pixelated text and symbols on black background with pink and yellow elements, showing two identical static frames side-by-side.

Pixelated text and symbols on black background with pink and yellow elements, showing two identical static frames side-by-side. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Arc…

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • frame 0: four yellow plus signs, one gray plus sign, one yellow plus sign
  • frame 1: three yellow plus signs, one gray plus sign, two yellow plus signs

Animation Summary

The right frame shows one fewer yellow plus sign at the left end compared to the left frame, with one additional yellow plus sign at the right end.

Composition

  • text stacked vertically
  • symbols arranged horizontally

Dense Caption

Black background with pink pixelated text reading 'william' at top, '& sarah' below, '7.17.09' beneath that, and 'forever' at bottom. Below text, six yellow and one gray plus sign symbols arranged horizontally. Left frame shows four yellow plus signs followed by one gray plus sign and one yellow plus sign. Right frame shows three yellow plus signs followed by one gray plus sign and two yellow plus signs. All text and symbols maintain consistent pixelated style across both frames.

Description

  • Pixelated text and symbols on black background with pink and yellow elements, showing two identical static frames side-by-side.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • william sarah 7.17.09 forever
  • plus signs yellow gray
  • pixelated text black background
  • two identical frames
  • william sarah forever
  • 7.17.09 plus signs
  • william sarah 7.17.09
  • yellow gray plus signs

Visible Text

  • william
  • & sarah
  • 7.17.09
  • forever

Wordwall

  • william
  • & sarah
  • 7.17.09
  • forever
  • plus signs
  • yellow
  • gray
  • black background
  • pixelated text
  • two identical frames

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20100313103015491860043
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:05 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
334 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/e5/e53bf4b8a4540d33ffe544a7062776474e2f89566ce9bc45cdcee94ead353c63.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:05 UTC
Archive ID
e53bf4b8a4540d33
SHA-256
e53bf4b8a4540d33ffe544a7062776474e2f89566ce9bc45cdcee94ead353c63
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:56 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.102217

OpenAI category scores

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

Pixelated text and symbols on black background with pink and yellow elements, showing two identical static frames side-by-side.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 17:47 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,982 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,140, response 785

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • plus signs (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • frame 0: four yellow plus signs, one gray plus sign, one yellow plus sign
  • frame 1: three yellow plus signs, one gray plus sign, two yellow plus signs

Animation Summary

The right frame shows one fewer yellow plus sign at the left end compared to the left frame, with one additional yellow plus sign at the right end.

Colors

  • black
  • pink
  • yellow
  • gray

Composition

  • text stacked vertically
  • symbols arranged horizontally

Dense Caption

Black background with pink pixelated text reading 'william' at top, '& sarah' below, '7.17.09' beneath that, and 'forever' at bottom. Below text, six yellow and one gray plus sign symbols arranged horizontally. Left frame shows four yellow plus signs followed by one gray plus sign and one yellow plus sign. Right frame shows three yellow plus signs followed by one gray plus sign and two yellow plus signs. All text and symbols maintain consistent pixelated style across both frames.

Description

  • Pixelated text and symbols on black background with pink and yellow elements, showing two identical static frames side-by-side.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • william sarah 7.17.09 forever
  • plus signs yellow gray
  • pixelated text black background
  • two identical frames
  • william sarah forever
  • 7.17.09 plus signs
  • william sarah 7.17.09
  • yellow gray plus signs

Objects

  • plus signs

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • static

Visible Text

  • william
  • & sarah
  • 7.17.09
  • forever

Wordwall

  • william
  • & sarah
  • 7.17.09
  • forever
  • plus signs
  • yellow
  • gray
  • black background
  • pixelated text
  • two identical frames
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 22:21 UTC
Run
61
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)
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
20100313103015491860043
Archive entry
20100313103015491860043.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:05 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#20100313103015491860043.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20100313103015491860043.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016