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Pixelated image of a person with light hair and dark headband, split into sections with cyan text on black backgrounds.

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Pixelated image of a person with light hair and dark headband, split into sections with cyan text on black backgrounds.

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four-quadrant split
  • top-left face close-up
  • text in bottom-left and top-right quadrants
  • solid gray bottom-right quadrant

Dense Caption

The icon is divided into four quadrants. Top-left shows a pixelated close-up of a person's face with light-colored hair tied back by a dark headband; the person has fair skin and visible eyes. Bottom-left quadrant contains cyan text "ye-ho wo-ho ye-ho" on black background. Top-right quadrant displays cyan text "if i could escape and make a place my own wo" on black background. Bottom-right is solid gray. All text uses blocky, pixelated font typical of early digital interfaces.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with light hair and dark headband, split into sections with cyan text on black backgrounds.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated face cyan text black background
  • ye-ho wo-ho ye-ho if i could escape
  • four quadrant split screen

Visible Text

  • ye-ho
  • wo-ho
  • if i
  • could escape
  • and make
  • a place
  • my own wo

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • light hair
  • dark headband
  • fair skin
  • cyan text
  • black background
  • gray section
  • pixelated face
  • blocky font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709041346571924595946
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/1e/1ecdd88564b895aef1b5698f78fa4fc4ddc82ab05872a1a23c18a84c9772aeec.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 UTC
Archive ID
1ecdd88564b895ae
SHA-256
1ecdd88564b895aef1b5698f78fa4fc4ddc82ab05872a1a23c18a84c9772aeec
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
July 25, 2026 at 03:54 UTC
Run
1187
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.082864

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:15 UTC
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107
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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Pixelated image of a person with light hair and dark headband, split into sections with cyan text on black backgrounds.

Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 23:24 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,559 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 632

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • split screen layout (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • black
  • gray
  • light brown
  • white

Composition

  • four-quadrant split
  • top-left face close-up
  • text in bottom-left and top-right quadrants
  • solid gray bottom-right quadrant

Dense Caption

The icon is divided into four quadrants. Top-left shows a pixelated close-up of a person's face with light-colored hair tied back by a dark headband; the person has fair skin and visible eyes. Bottom-left quadrant contains cyan text "ye-ho wo-ho ye-ho" on black background. Top-right quadrant displays cyan text "if i could escape and make a place my own wo" on black background. Bottom-right is solid gray. All text uses blocky, pixelated font typical of early digital interfaces.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with light hair and dark headband, split into sections with cyan text on black backgrounds.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated face cyan text black background
  • ye-ho wo-ho ye-ho if i could escape
  • four quadrant split screen

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky text
  • split-screen layout

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • ye-ho
  • wo-ho
  • if i
  • could escape
  • and make
  • a place
  • my own wo

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • light hair
  • dark headband
  • fair skin
  • cyan text
  • black background
  • gray section
  • pixelated face
  • blocky font
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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
200709041346571924595946
Archive entry
200709041346571924595946.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 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#200709041346571924595946.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709041346571924595946.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016