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Pixelated anime-style icon showing a couple embracing with text overlays, a wolf illustration, and handwritten-style text.

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Pixelated anime-style icon showing a couple embracing with text overlays, a wolf illustration, and handwritten-style text.

Pixelated anime-style icon showing a couple embracing with text overlays, a wolf illustration, and handwritten-style text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • top-left couple
  • top-right wolf
  • bottom-left text
  • bottom-right solid gray

Dense Caption

Pixelated 2D digital artwork divided into four quadrants. Top-left quadrant: anime-style couple; male figure with short light hair in white shirt embraces female figure with long dark purple hair. Top-right quadrant: stylized wolf illustration with multicolored fur (purple, red, orange) against dark background. Bottom-left quadrant: red text "I love you" above red date "12/11/08" above handwritten-style text "I love him" on black background. Bottom-right quadrant: solid light gray background. All elements rendered in low-resolution pixel art style with visible dithering.

Description

  • Pixelated anime-style icon showing a couple embracing with text overlays, a wolf illustration, and handwritten-style text.

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
  • 200901141954421241126634

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • anime couple embrace
  • wolf pixel art
  • I love you 12/11/08
  • I love him
  • pixel art four quadrants
  • red text date
  • handwritten text
  • multicolored wolf

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation detected; all elements appear static

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata about collection and era but no pixel evidence supports these claims

Visible Text

  • I love you
  • 12/11/08
  • I love him

Wordwall

  • anime couple
  • embrace
  • long dark purple hair
  • short light hair
  • white shirt
  • multicolored wolf
  • red text
  • date 12/11/08
  • handwritten text
  • pixel art
  • low resolution
  • four quadrants
  • dark background
  • light gray background

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200901141954421241126634
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.5 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ee/ee2974e22694df6576d088f0c9e48e9a3d97352e82c76f2f2525d64f54d8f2b3.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 UTC
Archive ID
ee2974e22694df65
SHA-256
ee2974e22694df6576d088f0c9e48e9a3d97352e82c76f2f2525d64f54d8f2b3
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 18, 2026 at 18:22 UTC
Run
1312
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.052291

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:06 UTC
Run
1139
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:01 UTC
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1140
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated anime-style icon showing a couple embracing with text overlays, a wolf illustration, and handwritten-style text.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 18:13 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,710 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,116, response 843

Review tags

  • embrace (action, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • romantic (mood, 0.80)
  • date (object, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
  • anime (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • anime couple (subject, 0.80)
  • wolf (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • embrace

Colors

  • purple
  • red
  • orange
  • white
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • top-left couple
  • top-right wolf
  • bottom-left text
  • bottom-right solid gray

Dense Caption

Pixelated 2D digital artwork divided into four quadrants. Top-left quadrant: anime-style couple; male figure with short light hair in white shirt embraces female figure with long dark purple hair. Top-right quadrant: stylized wolf illustration with multicolored fur (purple, red, orange) against dark background. Bottom-left quadrant: red text "I love you" above red date "12/11/08" above handwritten-style text "I love him" on black background. Bottom-right quadrant: solid light gray background. All elements rendered in low-resolution pixel art style with visible dithering.

Description

  • Pixelated anime-style icon showing a couple embracing with text overlays, a wolf illustration, and handwritten-style text.

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
  • 200901141954421241126634

Mood

  • affectionate
  • romantic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • anime couple embrace
  • wolf pixel art
  • I love you 12/11/08
  • I love him
  • pixel art four quadrants
  • red text date
  • handwritten text
  • multicolored wolf

Objects

  • text
  • date

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation detected; all elements appear static

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata about collection and era but no pixel evidence supports these claims

Style

  • pixel art
  • anime
  • low resolution

Subjects

  • anime couple
  • wolf

Visible Text

  • I love you
  • 12/11/08
  • I love him

Wordwall

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  • embrace
  • long dark purple hair
  • short light hair
  • white shirt
  • multicolored wolf
  • red text
  • date 12/11/08
  • handwritten text
  • pixel art
  • low resolution
  • four quadrants
  • dark background
  • light gray background
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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
200901141954421241126634
Archive entry
200901141954421241126634.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 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#200901141954421241126634.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200901141954421241126634.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016