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Four pixelated images arranged in a showing people with overlaid blue text and symbols

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Four pixelated images arranged in a showing people with overlaid blue text and symbols

Four pixelated images arranged in a showing people with overlaid blue text and symbols. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, La…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • top-left
  • top-right
  • bottom-left
  • bottom-right

Dense Caption

Top-left: person with dark curly hair, blue text 'lovee' with black outline. Top-right: person with brown hair, blue text 'themn' with black outline. Bottom-left: person with short brown hair, orange shirt, blue text ':D' with black outline. Bottom-right: empty gray space. All images have pixelated rendering, blue text with black outline, and visible background elements like sky and trees.

Description

  • Four pixelated images arranged in a showing people with overlaid blue text and symbols

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated blue text
  • lovee themn :D text
  • orange shirt blue sky background
  • pixelated people blue text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four pixelated images arranged in a 2x2 grid showing people with overlaid blue text and symbols.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated 2x2 grid blue text

Style

  • text overlay

Visible Text

  • lovee
  • themn
  • :D

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • blue text
  • black outline
  • dark curly hair
  • brown hair
  • short brown hair
  • orange shirt
  • sky background
  • :D symbol
  • empty gray space
  • text 'lovee'
  • text 'themn'

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200810242011361781632461
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
5.2 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ef/ef92df5d353e105469fd1c483d98d63aa58b48cef79e62ec46ca24f647f51b92.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 UTC
Archive ID
ef92df5d353e1054
SHA-256
ef92df5d353e105469fd1c483d98d63aa58b48cef79e62ec46ca24f647f51b92
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 30, 2026 at 09:49 UTC
Run
15966
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.002834

OpenAI category scores

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 7, 2026 at 18:38 UTC
Run
1272
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.285877

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagsexual0.285877falseviolence0.032333falseself-harm0.007445falseviolence/graphic0.002430falseself-harm/intent0.000270falseself-harm/instructions0.000223falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:02 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.234846

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Four pixelated images arranged in a showing people with overlaid blue text and symbols

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 05:31 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,491 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 636

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • sky blue (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text overlay (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • black
  • gray
  • orange
  • brown
  • sky blue
  • green

Composition

  • top-left
  • top-right
  • bottom-left
  • bottom-right

Dense Caption

Top-left: person with dark curly hair, blue text 'lovee' with black outline. Top-right: person with brown hair, blue text 'themn' with black outline. Bottom-left: person with short brown hair, orange shirt, blue text ':D' with black outline. Bottom-right: empty gray space. All images have pixelated rendering, blue text with black outline, and visible background elements like sky and trees.

Description

  • Four pixelated images arranged in a showing people with overlaid blue text and symbols

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

Mood

  • neutral
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated blue text
  • lovee themn :D text
  • orange shirt blue sky background
  • pixelated people blue text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four pixelated images arranged in a 2x2 grid showing people with overlaid blue text and symbols.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated 2x2 grid blue text

Style

  • pixelated
  • text overlay

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • lovee
  • themn
  • :D

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • blue text
  • black outline
  • dark curly hair
  • brown hair
  • short brown hair
  • orange shirt
  • sky background
  • :D symbol
  • empty gray space
  • text 'lovee'
  • text 'themn'
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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
200810242011361781632461
Archive entry
200810242011361781632461.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 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#200810242011361781632461.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200810242011361781632461.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016