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A pixelated image shows two figures embracing, one holding a glowing red and yellow object against a dark background.

A pixelated image shows two figures embracing, one holding a glowing red and yellow object against a dark background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sh…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central figures
  • close crop
  • dark background

Dense Caption

The static icon depicts two human-like figures in close physical contact. The figure on the left wears a light brown or tan long-sleeved garment with darker brown accents on the sleeves and lower body. The figure on the right wears a white short-sleeved top. Both figures have dark skin tones. The figure on the right holds a glowing object that emits red, orange, and yellow hues, resembling a flame or illuminated device. The background is predominantly black with faint light patches in the bottom-left corner. Pixelation obscures fine details.

Description

  • A pixelated image shows two figures embracing, one holding a glowing red and yellow object against a dark background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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
  • 20090708154231808460606
  • FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • two figures embracing glowing object dark background
  • human-like figure holding red-orange-yellow glow
  • pixelated intimate scene black background
  • glowing object light brown white clothing

Preprocessing Notes

  • Pixelation obscures fine details; no motion detected.

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Subjects

  • human-like figure

Visually Supported Entities

  • human-like figure
  • glowing object

Wordwall

  • two figures
  • embrace
  • glowing object
  • red-orange-yellow glow
  • dark background
  • light brown garment
  • white top
  • dark skin tones

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090708154231808460606
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/f5/f59284a1b81ed6162b8246f05d6e1a69216765ca60c98bacd7f4368bd60d489e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 UTC
Archive ID
f59284a1b81ed616
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 3, 2026 at 03:50 UTC
Run
1258
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.015962

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:58 UTC
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107
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Overall label
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Overall score
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A pixelated image shows two figures embracing, one holding a glowing red and yellow object against a dark background.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 14:17 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,795 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,092, response 780

Review tags

  • embracing (action, 0.80)
  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • intimate (mood, 0.80)
  • warm (mood, 0.80)
  • glowing object (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • human like figure (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • embracing
  • holding

Colors

  • black
  • red
  • orange
  • yellow
  • light brown
  • white
  • dark brown

Composition

  • central figures
  • close crop
  • dark background

Dense Caption

The static icon depicts two human-like figures in close physical contact. The figure on the left wears a light brown or tan long-sleeved garment with darker brown accents on the sleeves and lower body. The figure on the right wears a white short-sleeved top. Both figures have dark skin tones. The figure on the right holds a glowing object that emits red, orange, and yellow hues, resembling a flame or illuminated device. The background is predominantly black with faint light patches in the bottom-left corner. Pixelation obscures fine details.

Description

  • A pixelated image shows two figures embracing, one holding a glowing red and yellow object against a dark background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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
  • 20090708154231808460606
  • FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • intimate
  • warm

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • two figures embracing glowing object dark background
  • human-like figure holding red-orange-yellow glow
  • pixelated intimate scene black background
  • glowing object light brown white clothing

Objects

  • glowing object

Preprocessing Notes

  • Pixelation obscures fine details; no motion detected.

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

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  • glowing object

Wordwall

  • two figures
  • embrace
  • glowing object
  • red-orange-yellow glow
  • dark background
  • light brown garment
  • white top
  • dark skin tones
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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
20090708154231808460606
Archive entry
20090708154231808460606.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 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#20090708154231808460606.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090708154231808460606.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016