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Pixelated icon shows a smiling figure with dark hair wearing a blue jacket over a white shirt, holding a red object, with a checkered background and partial text at the bottom.

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Pixelated icon shows a smiling figure with dark hair wearing a blue jacket over a white shirt, holding a red object, with a checkered background and partial text at the bottom.

Pixelated icon shows a smiling figure with dark hair wearing a blue jacket over a white shirt, holding a red object, with a checkered background and partial text at the bottom. 48…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered figure
  • checkered background
  • text at bottom

Dense Caption

Pixelated 16x16 icon depicts a smiling figure with dark hair and a mustache, wearing a blue jacket over a white shirt with black trim. The figure holds a red object in the right hand and a blue object in the left hand. The background features a checkered pattern with gray and white squares. Partial text at the bottom reads "LOVE" in black and white pixelated letters. The figure's eyes are dark, and the mouth is open in a smile. The overall style is low-resolution digital art with visible pixelation.

Description

Pixelated icon shows a smiling figure with dark hair wearing a blue jacket over a white shirt, holding a red object, with a checkered background and partial text at the bottom.

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: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • smiling figure blue jacket white shirt
  • red object blue object checkered background
  • LOVE text pixelated digital art
  • holding objects smiling figure mustache
  • blue white black red gray colors
  • centered figure text bottom
  • 16x16 pixelated art
  • digital art smiling figure

Subjects

  • figure

Visible Text

  • LOVE

Wordwall

  • smiling figure
  • dark hair
  • blue jacket
  • white shirt
  • red object
  • blue object
  • checkered background
  • LOVE text
  • mustache
  • pixelated
  • 16x16
  • digital art
  • open mouth
  • dark eyes
  • black trim
  • gray squares
  • white squares
  • holding objects
  • partial text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081103192814490629595
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
2.5 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 UTC
Archive ID
1e8208f54a79577d
SHA-256
1e8208f54a79577dc3e501141740e9e575571abfaa6084646021a6acb9665c2d
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:15 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.078279

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated icon shows a smiling figure with dark hair wearing a blue jacket over a white shirt, holding a red object, with a checkered background and partial text at the bottom.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 06:55 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,586 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,093, response 724

Review tags

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  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • blue object (object, 0.80)
  • red object (object, 0.80)
  • digital art (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • figure (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding
  • smiling

Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • black
  • red
  • gray

Composition

  • centered figure
  • checkered background
  • text at bottom

Dense Caption

Pixelated 16x16 icon depicts a smiling figure with dark hair and a mustache, wearing a blue jacket over a white shirt with black trim. The figure holds a red object in the right hand and a blue object in the left hand. The background features a checkered pattern with gray and white squares. Partial text at the bottom reads "LOVE" in black and white pixelated letters. The figure's eyes are dark, and the mouth is open in a smile. The overall style is low-resolution digital art with visible pixelation.

Description

Pixelated icon shows a smiling figure with dark hair wearing a blue jacket over a white shirt, holding a red object, with a checkered background and partial text at the bottom.

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: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Mood

  • happy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • red object blue object checkered background
  • LOVE text pixelated digital art
  • holding objects smiling figure mustache
  • blue white black red gray colors
  • centered figure text bottom
  • 16x16 pixelated art
  • digital art smiling figure

Objects

  • red object
  • blue object

Style

  • pixelated
  • digital art

Subjects

  • figure

Visible Text

  • LOVE

Wordwall

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  • dark hair
  • blue jacket
  • white shirt
  • red object
  • blue object
  • checkered background
  • LOVE text
  • mustache
  • pixelated
  • 16x16
  • digital art
  • open mouth
  • dark eyes
  • black trim
  • gray squares
  • white squares
  • holding objects
  • partial text
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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
20081103192814490629595
Archive entry
20081103192814490629595.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#20081103192814490629595.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081103192814490629595.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016