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Pixelated image of a person with curly brown hair wearing a red shirt against a blue and white patterned background with red text reading 'uhh' on the right.

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Pixelated image of a person with curly brown hair wearing a red shirt against a blue and white patterned background with red text reading 'uhh' on the right.

Pixelated image of a person with curly brown hair wearing a red shirt against a blue and white patterned background with red text reading 'uhh' on the right. Animated 48×48 GIF AI…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • person centered left
  • text right
  • cropped shoulders up

Dense Caption

Pixelated image of a person with curly brown hair wearing a red shirt against a blue and white patterned background. Red text reading 'uhh' appears on the right side of the image. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics. The person's expression appears neutral. The background consists of a repeating pattern of light blue and white pixels. The red text is rendered in a pixelated font style. The image is cropped to show the person from the shoulders up.

Description

Pixelated image of a person with curly brown hair wearing a red shirt against a blue and white patterned background with red text reading 'uhh' on the right.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person curly brown hair red shirt
  • uhh text pixelated image
  • blue white background red text
  • low resolution neutral expression

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be a static image with no visible animation frames

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • uhh

Wordwall

  • curly brown hair
  • red shirt
  • blue and white background
  • red text
  • uhh
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • neutral expression
  • shoulders up
  • blocky appearance

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200808261411531043277500
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/32/3261545634df60ba1cb1a68e7cd8c4b77ccf33e06a2da3c603ddafa23ac0f909.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 UTC
Archive ID
3261545634df60ba
SHA-256
3261545634df60ba1cb1a68e7cd8c4b77ccf33e06a2da3c603ddafa23ac0f909
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:36 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.090148

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Pixelated image of a person with curly brown hair wearing a red shirt against a blue and white patterned background with red text reading 'uhh' on the right.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 21:42 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
12,159 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,143, response 754

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • brown
  • blue
  • white

Composition

  • person centered left
  • text right
  • cropped shoulders up

Dense Caption

Pixelated image of a person with curly brown hair wearing a red shirt against a blue and white patterned background. Red text reading 'uhh' appears on the right side of the image. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics. The person's expression appears neutral. The background consists of a repeating pattern of light blue and white pixels. The red text is rendered in a pixelated font style. The image is cropped to show the person from the shoulders up.

Description

Pixelated image of a person with curly brown hair wearing a red shirt against a blue and white patterned background with red text reading 'uhh' on the right.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person curly brown hair red shirt
  • uhh text pixelated image
  • blue white background red text
  • low resolution neutral expression

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be a static image with no visible animation frames

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
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  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • uhh

Wordwall

  • curly brown hair
  • red shirt
  • blue and white background
  • red text
  • uhh
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • neutral expression
  • shoulders up
  • blocky appearance
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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
200808261411531043277500
Archive entry
200808261411531043277500.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 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#200808261411531043277500.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200808261411531043277500.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016