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Two individuals stand side-by-side against a light background, with pixelated text surrounding them on a black field.

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Two individuals stand side-by-side against a light background, with pixelated text surrounding them on a black field.

Two individuals stand side-by-side against a light background, with pixelated text surrounding them on a black field. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Frank…

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Source terms

Composition

  • left individual standing next to right individual
  • text arranged around central image on black background

Dense Caption

Left individual has short blonde hair and wears dark clothing. Right individual has spiky hair with blue streaks and wears a dark jacket over a blue shirt; an orange object is partially visible near their shoulder. Text elements include "nathan" (top right), "&" (center-right), "matthew." (bottom center-right), "thats" (bottom left), "hot..." (lower-left below "thats"), and "VERY hot." (bottom right). All text is white pixelated font on black background. Image has low-resolution, blocky pixels typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Two individuals stand side-by-side against a light background, with pixelated text surrounding them on a black field.

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

Named Entities

  • nathan
  • matthew

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • nathan matthew very hot
  • thats hot nathan matthew
  • two people pixelated text
  • blue shirt orange object

Visible Text

  • nathan
  • &
  • matthew.
  • thats
  • hot...
  • VERY hot.

Visually Supported Entities

  • nathan
  • matthew

Wordwall

  • two people
  • blonde hair
  • spiky blue-streaked hair
  • dark clothing
  • blue shirt
  • orange object
  • white pixelated text
  • nathan & matthew
  • thats hot...
  • VERY hot.

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709101338581705386649
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:44 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.7 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ee/ee1016fd8227f0fb493bd1b30c7b83e08330955f810ec8916610224f23a9114c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:44 UTC
Archive ID
ee1016fd8227f0fb
SHA-256
ee1016fd8227f0fb493bd1b30c7b83e08330955f810ec8916610224f23a9114c
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
0.092909

OpenAI category scores

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Two individuals stand side-by-side against a light background, with pixelated text surrounding them on a black field.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 00:59 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,309 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 658

Review tags

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  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • dark gray (color, 0.80)
  • light beige (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • orange object (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution digital graphics (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • two people (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • blue
  • dark gray
  • light beige
  • orange

Composition

  • left individual standing next to right individual
  • text arranged around central image on black background

Dense Caption

Left individual has short blonde hair and wears dark clothing. Right individual has spiky hair with blue streaks and wears a dark jacket over a blue shirt; an orange object is partially visible near their shoulder. Text elements include "nathan" (top right), "&" (center-right), "matthew." (bottom center-right), "thats" (bottom left), "hot..." (lower-left below "thats"), and "VERY hot." (bottom right). All text is white pixelated font on black background. Image has low-resolution, blocky pixels typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Two individuals stand side-by-side against a light background, with pixelated text surrounding them on a black field.

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

Named Entities

  • nathan
  • matthew

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • nathan matthew very hot
  • thats hot nathan matthew
  • two people pixelated text
  • blue shirt orange object

Objects

  • orange object

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution digital graphics

Subjects

  • two people

Visible Text

  • nathan
  • &
  • matthew.
  • thats
  • hot...
  • VERY hot.

Visually Supported Entities

  • nathan
  • matthew

Wordwall

  • two people
  • blonde hair
  • spiky blue-streaked hair
  • dark clothing
  • blue shirt
  • orange object
  • white pixelated text
  • nathan & matthew
  • thats hot...
  • VERY hot.
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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
200709101338581705386649
Archive entry
200709101338581705386649.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:44 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#200709101338581705386649.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709101338581705386649.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016