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A static image with four quadrants: top-left shows a person's face, top-right displays text on dark background, bottom-left has date and phrase text, bottom-right is empty gray.

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A static image with four quadrants: top-left shows a person's face, top-right displays text on dark background, bottom-left has date and phrase text, bottom-right is empty gray.

A static image with four quadrants: top-left shows a person's face, top-right displays text on dark background, bottom-left has date and phrase text, bottom-right is empty gray. A…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • top-left: person face
  • top-right: text block
  • bottom-left: text block
  • bottom-right: empty space

Dense Caption

Top-left quadrant contains a pixelated close-up of a smiling person with light brown hair wearing dark clothing against an indistinct background. Top-right quadrant features white pixelated text 'I love you Griffy Boo! <3' on solid black background. Bottom-left quadrant displays white pixelated text '11-2-07 to Forever! <3' on solid black background. Bottom-right quadrant is a plain light gray square with no visible content or markings.

Description

A static image with four quadrants: top-left shows a person's face, top-right displays text on dark background, bottom-left has date and phrase text, bottom-right is empty gray.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Griffy is a person's name or nickname
  • the date 11-2-07 refers to November 2, 2007

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person face smiling text 11-2-07 Forever
  • Griffy <3 affectionate message
  • four-quadrant pixelated image
  • <3 symbol date text

Objects

  • <3 symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected; appears static
  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Visible Text

  • I love you Griffy Boo! <3
  • 11-2-07 to Forever! <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • Griffy

Wordwall

  • person face
  • light brown hair
  • smiling expression
  • dark clothing
  • pixelated text
  • white text on black
  • <3 symbol
  • 11-2-07 date
  • Forever! phrase
  • four-quadrant layout

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080408182129406296976
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:22 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2008040819014660119430
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:22 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
3.9 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/e8/e8d1f34a38a216b694acce2caa5e8c130532a05b52058dd71f2b268ee088fefd.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:22 UTC
Archive ID
e8d1f34a38a216b6
SHA-256
e8d1f34a38a216b694acce2caa5e8c130532a05b52058dd71f2b268ee088fefd
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:58 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.072683

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.932388onnx/unsafe0.072683onnx/nsfw0.036658onnx/nsfl0.036025
Enrichment records (1)
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A static image with four quadrants: top-left shows a person's face, top-right displays text on dark background, bottom-left has date and phrase text, bottom-right is empty gray.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 01:24 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,099 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,149, response 765

Review tags

  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • sentimental (mood, 0.80)
  • 3 symbol (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static image (style, 0.80)
  • person face (subject, 0.80)
  • text elements (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • light gray
  • light brown
  • dark clothing color

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • top-left: person face
  • top-right: text block
  • bottom-left: text block
  • bottom-right: empty space

Dense Caption

Top-left quadrant contains a pixelated close-up of a smiling person with light brown hair wearing dark clothing against an indistinct background. Top-right quadrant features white pixelated text 'I love you Griffy Boo! <3' on solid black background. Bottom-left quadrant displays white pixelated text '11-2-07 to Forever! <3' on solid black background. Bottom-right quadrant is a plain light gray square with no visible content or markings.

Description

A static image with four quadrants: top-left shows a person's face, top-right displays text on dark background, bottom-left has date and phrase text, bottom-right is empty gray.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Griffy is a person's name or nickname
  • the date 11-2-07 refers to November 2, 2007

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007

Mood

  • affectionate
  • sentimental

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person face smiling text 11-2-07 Forever
  • Griffy <3 affectionate message
  • four-quadrant pixelated image
  • <3 symbol date text

Objects

  • <3 symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected; appears static
  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • static image

Subjects

  • person face
  • text elements

Visible Text

  • I love you Griffy Boo! <3
  • 11-2-07 to Forever! <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • Griffy

Wordwall

  • person face
  • light brown hair
  • smiling expression
  • dark clothing
  • pixelated text
  • white text on black
  • <3 symbol
  • 11-2-07 date
  • Forever! phrase
  • four-quadrant layout
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Full source records (2)

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
20080408182129406296976
Archive entry
20080408182129406296976.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:22 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#20080408182129406296976.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080408182129406296976.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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
2008040819014660119430
Archive entry
2008040819014660119430.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:22 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#2008040819014660119430.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2008040819014660119430.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016