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Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and sunglasses on a bright purple background with green text.

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Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and sunglasses on a bright purple background with green text.

Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and sunglasses on a bright purple background with green text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • left side: person
  • right side: text

Dense Caption

Pixelated image of a person with dark brown hair, wearing dark sunglasses, and a white collared shirt under a dark jacket. The background is solid bright purple. Green pixelated text reads "Its called" at the top right, "Special Time With MJ" on the left side, and "oys watch he luvs u" on the right side. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and sunglasses on a bright purple background with green text.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Michael Jackson

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

Named Entities

  • Michael Jackson

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Michael Jackson pixel art
  • Special Time With MJ
  • purple background green text
  • oys watch he luvs u

Visible Text

  • Its called
  • Special Time With MJ
  • oys watch he luvs u

Visually Supported Entities

  • Michael Jackson

Wordwall

  • person with dark hair
  • dark sunglasses
  • white collared shirt
  • dark jacket
  • bright purple background
  • green pixelated text
  • Special Time With MJ
  • Its called
  • oys watch he luvs u

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708011632401447641034
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/37/373945e2aae1845b89b249d6bc41e74249139cbe5111058a339d1748bf508955.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC
Archive ID
373945e2aae1845b
SHA-256
373945e2aae1845b89b249d6bc41e74249139cbe5111058a339d1748bf508955
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 9, 2026 at 18:10 UTC
Run
1278
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall score
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July 23, 2026 at 07:41 UTC
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and sunglasses on a bright purple background with green text.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 17:22 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,733 ms
Tokens
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  • green (color, 0.80)
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  • white (color, 0.80)
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  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • purple
  • green
  • brown
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • left side: person
  • right side: text

Dense Caption

Pixelated image of a person with dark brown hair, wearing dark sunglasses, and a white collared shirt under a dark jacket. The background is solid bright purple. Green pixelated text reads "Its called" at the top right, "Special Time With MJ" on the left side, and "oys watch he luvs u" on the right side. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and sunglasses on a bright purple background with green text.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Michael Jackson

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

Mood

  • nostalgic
  • playful

Named Entities

  • Michael Jackson

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Michael Jackson pixel art
  • Special Time With MJ
  • purple background green text
  • oys watch he luvs u

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • Its called
  • Special Time With MJ
  • oys watch he luvs u

Visually Supported Entities

  • Michael Jackson

Wordwall

  • person with dark hair
  • dark sunglasses
  • white collared shirt
  • dark jacket
  • bright purple background
  • green pixelated text
  • Special Time With MJ
  • Its called
  • oys watch he luvs u
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
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Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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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
200708011632401447641034
Archive entry
200708011632401447641034.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 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#200708011632401447641034.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708011632401447641034.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016