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Pixelated image of a person in a light blue shirt on left, bright yellow background with pink text reading 'why', 'You Should Eat', and 'Veggies:'.

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Pixelated image of a person in a light blue shirt on left, bright yellow background with pink text reading 'why', 'You Should Eat', and 'Veggies:'.

Pixelated image of a person in a light blue shirt on left, bright yellow background with pink text reading 'why', 'You Should Eat', and 'Veggies:'. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy ic…

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Style

Mood

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Source terms

Composition

  • left: figure on dark background
  • right: text on solid color field

Dense Caption

Left side shows pixelated figure wearing light blue collared shirt against dark background. Right side features solid bright yellow background with three lines of pink pixelated text: top line reads 'why', middle line reads 'You Should Eat' in stacked format, bottom line reads 'Veggies:'. Text uses blocky 8-bit style font. Image has low resolution and visible pixelation throughout.

Description

Pixelated image of a person in a light blue shirt on left, bright yellow background with pink text reading 'why', 'You Should Eat', and 'Veggies:'.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • why veggies
  • you should eat veggies
  • pixelated person yellow background pink text
  • 8-bit font bright yellow

Visible Text

  • why
  • You Should Eat
  • Veggies:

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • light blue collared shirt
  • bright yellow background
  • pink text
  • pixelated figure
  • blocky 8-bit font
  • You Should Eat
  • why
  • Veggies:
  • stacked text layout

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071104220138481416218
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:53 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/36/3644f39b3a29c2580fffd6cdbd2dfd51407f3b21f12e30ef2d7d839411e2a25c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:53 UTC
Archive ID
3644f39b3a29c258
SHA-256
3644f39b3a29c2580fffd6cdbd2dfd51407f3b21f12e30ef2d7d839411e2a25c
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:40 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.192310

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Pixelated image of a person in a light blue shirt on left, bright yellow background with pink text reading 'why', 'You Should Eat', and 'Veggies:'.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 15:21 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,112 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 573

Review tags

  • bright yellow (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • light blue
  • bright yellow
  • pink

Composition

  • left: figure on dark background
  • right: text on solid color field

Dense Caption

Left side shows pixelated figure wearing light blue collared shirt against dark background. Right side features solid bright yellow background with three lines of pink pixelated text: top line reads 'why', middle line reads 'You Should Eat' in stacked format, bottom line reads 'Veggies:'. Text uses blocky 8-bit style font. Image has low resolution and visible pixelation throughout.

Description

Pixelated image of a person in a light blue shirt on left, bright yellow background with pink text reading 'why', 'You Should Eat', and 'Veggies:'.

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

Mood

  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • why veggies
  • you should eat veggies
  • pixelated person yellow background pink text
  • 8-bit font bright yellow

Style

  • pixelated
  • 8-bit
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • why
  • You Should Eat
  • Veggies:

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • light blue collared shirt
  • bright yellow background
  • pink text
  • pixelated figure
  • blocky 8-bit font
  • You Should Eat
  • why
  • Veggies:
  • stacked text layout
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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
20071104220138481416218
Archive entry
20071104220138481416218.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:53 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#20071104220138481416218.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071104220138481416218.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016