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Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and a black jacket over a white shirt on a gray background, next to blue background with text.

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Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and a black jacket over a white shirt on a gray background, next to blue background with text.

Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and a black jacket over a white shirt on a gray background, next to blue background with text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from In…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split composition
  • left person
  • right text
  • centered face
  • two distinct backgrounds

Dense Caption

Left side shows a pixelated person with short dark hair, light skin, and a neutral expression wearing a black jacket over a white shirt against a gray background. Right side shows a solid bright blue background with black pixelated text reading 'this is for u EMILY' in three lines. The text uses a blocky, low-resolution font typical of early digital graphics. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated appearance consistent with early 2000s digital art. The person's face is centered on the left half of the image, while the text occupies the right half.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and a black jacket over a white shirt on a gray background, next to blue background with text.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person with dark hair blue background text
  • pixelated person black jacket white shirt
  • text this is for u EMILY
  • split composition gray blue backgrounds
  • low-resolution graphics text
  • neutral expression pixelated image
  • blocky font text
  • two distinct backgrounds

Visible Text

  • this is for u EMILY

Wordwall

  • pixelated person
  • dark hair
  • black jacket
  • white shirt
  • gray background
  • bright blue background
  • text 'this is for u EMILY'
  • blocky font
  • low-resolution
  • neutral expression
  • left side person
  • right side text
  • three-line text
  • pixelated text
  • black text
  • low-resolution graphics
  • early digital art
  • centered face

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708081016261873273236
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 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/3c/3c845a7b757481a4f621cab2b83a91168278e6ebb5c11e2834e03d7df5f7850f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 UTC
Archive ID
3c845a7b757481a4
SHA-256
3c845a7b757481a4f621cab2b83a91168278e6ebb5c11e2834e03d7df5f7850f
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:46 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.093321

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and a black jacket over a white shirt on a gray background, next to blue background with text.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 20:38 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,901 ms
Tokens
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Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • bright blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light skin (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
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  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • gray
  • bright blue
  • black
  • white
  • light skin

Composition

  • split composition
  • left person
  • right text
  • centered face
  • two distinct backgrounds

Dense Caption

Left side shows a pixelated person with short dark hair, light skin, and a neutral expression wearing a black jacket over a white shirt against a gray background. Right side shows a solid bright blue background with black pixelated text reading 'this is for u EMILY' in three lines. The text uses a blocky, low-resolution font typical of early digital graphics. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated appearance consistent with early 2000s digital art. The person's face is centered on the left half of the image, while the text occupies the right half.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and a black jacket over a white shirt on a gray background, next to blue background with text.

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

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person with dark hair blue background text
  • pixelated person black jacket white shirt
  • text this is for u EMILY
  • split composition gray blue backgrounds
  • low-resolution graphics text
  • neutral expression pixelated image
  • blocky font text
  • two distinct backgrounds

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  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • this is for u EMILY

Wordwall

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  • dark hair
  • black jacket
  • white shirt
  • gray background
  • bright blue background
  • text 'this is for u EMILY'
  • blocky font
  • low-resolution
  • neutral expression
  • left side person
  • right side text
  • three-line text
  • pixelated text
  • black text
  • low-resolution graphics
  • early digital art
  • centered face
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
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July 27, 2026 at 10:50 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
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Error
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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
200708081016261873273236
Archive entry
200708081016261873273236.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 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#200708081016261873273236.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708081016261873273236.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016