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Black background with red pixelated border, four identical text blocks arranged in a , each containing 'Brandon + Ashlie <33' in white pixelated font

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Black background with red pixelated border, four identical text blocks arranged in a , each containing 'Brandon + Ashlie <33' in white pixelated font

Black background with red pixelated border, four identical text blocks arranged in a , each containing 'Brandon + Ashlie <33' in white pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy…

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Style

Mood

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Source terms

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all elements remain static.

Composition

  • central cross
  • identical text blocks

Dense Caption

Black background with red pixelated border. Four identical text blocks arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each block contains 'Brandon' in white pixelated font, followed by a white plus sign, then 'Ashlie' in white pixelated font, then '<33' in white pixelated font. Red pixelated lines form a central cross shape between the four text blocks. All text and border elements are static.

Description

Black background with red pixelated border, four identical text blocks arranged in a , each containing 'Brandon + Ashlie <33' in white pixelated font

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Brandon Ashlie <33
  • Brandon + Ashlie <33
  • Ashlie Brandon <33
  • Brandon Ashlie
  • Ashlie Brandon
  • Brandon + Ashlie
  • Ashlie + Brandon
  • Brandon Ashlie <33 static

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Black background with red pixelated border, four identical text blocks arranged in a 2x2 grid, each containing 'Brandon + Ashlie <33' in white pixelated font.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid

Visible Text

  • Brandon
  • +
  • Ashlie
  • <33

Wordwall

  • black background
  • red pixelated border
  • white pixelated text
  • Brandon
  • Ashlie
  • <33
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  • identical text blocks
  • static
  • pixelated font
  • text blocks
  • red lines
  • black
  • white
  • 4 blocks
  • Brandon + Ashlie <33
  • pixelated
  • border

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081104181713651484521
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.8 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/fa/fa88fcbbe95aa27e9ef7e2f1203812319407c665a9242b758d0da321fd410df5.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 UTC
Archive ID
fa88fcbbe95aa27e
SHA-256
fa88fcbbe95aa27e9ef7e2f1203812319407c665a9242b758d0da321fd410df5
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:07 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.084452

OpenAI category scores

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Black background with red pixelated border, four identical text blocks arranged in a , each containing 'Brandon + Ashlie <33' in white pixelated font

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 07:09 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,631 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 673

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • simple (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • ashlie (subject, 0.80)
  • brandon (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all elements remain static.

Colors

  • black
  • red
  • white

Composition

  • central cross
  • identical text blocks

Dense Caption

Black background with red pixelated border. Four identical text blocks arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each block contains 'Brandon' in white pixelated font, followed by a white plus sign, then 'Ashlie' in white pixelated font, then '<33' in white pixelated font. Red pixelated lines form a central cross shape between the four text blocks. All text and border elements are static.

Description

Black background with red pixelated border, four identical text blocks arranged in a , each containing 'Brandon + Ashlie <33' in white pixelated font

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

Mood

  • affectionate
  • simple

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • Brandon + Ashlie <33
  • Ashlie Brandon <33
  • Brandon Ashlie
  • Ashlie Brandon
  • Brandon + Ashlie
  • Ashlie + Brandon
  • Brandon Ashlie <33 static

Preprocessing Notes

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Style

  • pixelated
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  • static

Subjects

  • Brandon
  • Ashlie

Visible Text

  • Brandon
  • +
  • Ashlie
  • <33

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  • Brandon
  • Ashlie
  • <33
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  • identical text blocks
  • static
  • pixelated font
  • text blocks
  • red lines
  • black
  • white
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  • Brandon + Ashlie <33
  • pixelated
  • border
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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
20081104181713651484521
Archive entry
20081104181713651484521.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 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#20081104181713651484521.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081104181713651484521.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016