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A pixelated image shows two people in a close-up, with blue text on a light purple background reading FRIENDS = LOVE, SOCCER = SINGLE, LIFE.

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A pixelated image shows two people in a close-up, with blue text on a light purple background reading FRIENDS = LOVE, SOCCER = SINGLE, LIFE.

A pixelated image shows two people in a close-up, with blue text on a light purple background reading FRIENDS = LOVE, SOCCER = SINGLE, LIFE. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • left: photograph
  • right: text
  • centered equals signs
  • text arranged vertically

Dense Caption

The image is a static composition with a light purple background. On the left, a pixelated photograph shows two people: one with short dark hair and glasses, wearing a green shirt, and another with brown hair, wearing orange-tinted sunglasses and a green shirt. The person on the left holds a golden trophy-like object near the right person's face. On the right side of the image, blue pixelated text reads "FRIENDS = LOVE" above a centered equals sign, and "SOCCER = SINGLE" below another equals sign, with "LIFE" centered beneath that. The text uses a blocky, retro digital font. The image has low resolution and visible pixelation throughout.

Description

  • A pixelated image shows two people in a close-up, with blue text on a light purple background reading FRIENDS = LOVE, SOCCER = SINGLE, LIFE.

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 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070810194654553020698
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • FRIENDS LOVE SOCCER SINGLE LIFE
  • two people green shirts sunglasses trophy
  • light purple background blue text
  • pixelated retro digital text

Visible Text

  • FRIENDS
  • LOVE
  • SOCCER
  • SINGLE
  • LIFE

Wordwall

  • two people
  • green shirts
  • orange-tinted sunglasses
  • golden trophy
  • light purple background
  • blue pixelated text
  • FRIENDS = LOVE
  • SOCCER = SINGLE
  • LIFE
  • retro digital font
  • pixelated photograph
  • centered equals signs
  • blocky text
  • low resolution
  • visible pixelation

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070810194654553020698
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.8 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ed/ed73a6007968fa9deb25f1f676579dfafc543b651a0f7dc616a49a1f22a0ec5c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 UTC
Archive ID
ed73a6007968fa9d
SHA-256
ed73a6007968fa9deb25f1f676579dfafc543b651a0f7dc616a49a1f22a0ec5c
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:01 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.096321

OpenAI category scores

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A pixelated image shows two people in a close-up, with blue text on a light purple background reading FRIENDS = LOVE, SOCCER = SINGLE, LIFE.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 22:00 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,485 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 815

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  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • golden trophy (subject, 0.80)
  • two people (subject, 0.80)

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  • holding

Colors

  • light purple
  • blue
  • green
  • orange
  • brown
  • golden

Composition

  • left: photograph
  • right: text
  • centered equals signs
  • text arranged vertically

Dense Caption

The image is a static composition with a light purple background. On the left, a pixelated photograph shows two people: one with short dark hair and glasses, wearing a green shirt, and another with brown hair, wearing orange-tinted sunglasses and a green shirt. The person on the left holds a golden trophy-like object near the right person's face. On the right side of the image, blue pixelated text reads "FRIENDS = LOVE" above a centered equals sign, and "SOCCER = SINGLE" below another equals sign, with "LIFE" centered beneath that. The text uses a blocky, retro digital font. The image has low resolution and visible pixelation throughout.

Description

  • A pixelated image shows two people in a close-up, with blue text on a light purple background reading FRIENDS = LOVE, SOCCER = SINGLE, LIFE.

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 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070810194654553020698
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • playful
  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • FRIENDS LOVE SOCCER SINGLE LIFE
  • two people green shirts sunglasses trophy
  • light purple background blue text
  • pixelated retro digital text

Objects

  • golden trophy

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • two people
  • golden trophy

Visible Text

  • FRIENDS
  • LOVE
  • SOCCER
  • SINGLE
  • LIFE

Wordwall

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  • green shirts
  • orange-tinted sunglasses
  • golden trophy
  • light purple background
  • blue pixelated text
  • FRIENDS = LOVE
  • SOCCER = SINGLE
  • LIFE
  • retro digital font
  • pixelated photograph
  • centered equals signs
  • blocky text
  • low resolution
  • visible pixelation
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 11:12 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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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
20070810194654553020698
Archive entry
20070810194654553020698.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 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#20070810194654553020698.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070810194654553020698.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016