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A two-part image with a black background of colorful pixelated hearts and text above a grayscale photo of a person sitting at a table with overlaid text.

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A two-part image with a black background of colorful pixelated hearts and text above a grayscale photo of a person sitting at a table with overlaid text.

A two-part image with a black background of colorful pixelated hearts and text above a grayscale photo of a person sitting at a table with overlaid text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM bu…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • two horizontal sections
  • text on top
  • photo on bottom

Dense Caption

The image is divided into two horizontal sections. The top section has a black background with scattered pixelated hearts in pink, green, and cyan. White text reads "a little" on the left and "bit longer" on the right. The bottom section is a grayscale photo of a person with short dark hair sitting at a table, viewed from the side. Overlaid on the photo are black rectangular boxes with white text reading "and ill" and "be fine". The image has a low-resolution, pixelated style typical of early digital graphics.

Description

A two-part image with a black background of colorful pixelated hearts and text above a grayscale photo of a person sitting at a table with overlaid text.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200809281216102031143711

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated hearts text
  • grayscale photo text
  • a little bit longer
  • and ill be fine
  • low-resolution buddy icon
  • text overlay hearts
  • grayscale person sitting
  • black background hearts

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • 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

Style

  • text overlay

Visible Text

  • a little
  • bit longer
  • and ill
  • be fine

Wordwall

  • black background
  • pixelated hearts
  • pink hearts
  • green hearts
  • cyan hearts
  • white text
  • grayscale photo
  • person sitting
  • text overlays
  • low-resolution

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200809281216102031143711
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.2 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/f3/f3dfa25db2907a2b35c08713c072f43fd329c08614d3abd4bf44e1ae886d7724.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC
Archive ID
f3dfa25db2907a2b
SHA-256
f3dfa25db2907a2b35c08713c072f43fd329c08614d3abd4bf44e1ae886d7724
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:04 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.081972

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.937989onnx/unsafe0.081972onnx/nsfw0.044797onnx/nsfl0.037175
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A two-part image with a black background of colorful pixelated hearts and text above a grayscale photo of a person sitting at a table with overlaid text.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 02:04 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,471 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 840

Review tags

  • sitting (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • hopeful (mood, 0.80)
  • melancholic (mood, 0.80)
  • table (object, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text overlay (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • sitting

Colors

  • black
  • pink
  • green
  • cyan
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • two horizontal sections
  • text on top
  • photo on bottom

Dense Caption

The image is divided into two horizontal sections. The top section has a black background with scattered pixelated hearts in pink, green, and cyan. White text reads "a little" on the left and "bit longer" on the right. The bottom section is a grayscale photo of a person with short dark hair sitting at a table, viewed from the side. Overlaid on the photo are black rectangular boxes with white text reading "and ill" and "be fine". The image has a low-resolution, pixelated style typical of early digital graphics.

Description

A two-part image with a black background of colorful pixelated hearts and text above a grayscale photo of a person sitting at a table with overlaid text.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200809281216102031143711

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • melancholic
  • hopeful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated hearts text
  • grayscale photo text
  • a little bit longer
  • and ill be fine
  • low-resolution buddy icon
  • text overlay hearts
  • grayscale person sitting
  • black background hearts

Objects

  • table

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • 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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • grayscale
  • text overlay

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • a little
  • bit longer
  • and ill
  • be fine

Wordwall

  • black background
  • pixelated hearts
  • pink hearts
  • green hearts
  • cyan hearts
  • white text
  • grayscale photo
  • person sitting
  • text overlays
  • low-resolution
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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
200809281216102031143711
Archive entry
200809281216102031143711.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 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#200809281216102031143711.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200809281216102031143711.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016