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A pixelated image of a smiling person with short hair, next to pink text reading 'Person:' on a black background.

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A pixelated image of a smiling person with short hair, next to pink text reading 'Person:' on a black background.

A pixelated image of a smiling person with short hair, next to pink text reading 'Person:' on a black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIco…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split left-right
  • left: person close-up
  • right: text on solid background

Dense Caption

The left side shows a pixelated close-up of a person's head and shoulders; the person has short brown hair, light skin, visible teeth in a smile, and is wearing a dark top. The right side features solid black background with bright pink text reading 'Person:' in a blocky, retro digital font. The image uses low-resolution pixelation throughout.

Description

  • A pixelated image of a smiling person with short hair, next to pink text reading 'Person:' on a black background.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080403182810444856542

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person smiling pixelated pink text black background
  • pixelated person brown hair light skin dark top
  • retro digital font 'Person:' text

Visible Text

  • Person:

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • smiling person
  • short brown hair
  • light skin
  • dark top
  • black background
  • pink text
  • 'Person:'
  • retro digital font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080403182810444856542
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.1 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 UTC
Archive ID
425a4400cc74c844
SHA-256
425a4400cc74c8444e990694a9d4949eae9b02963d65ffafb66c1ee149433468
Content-safety assessments (3)
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Assessed
August 4, 2026 at 23:01 UTC
Run
1266
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall score
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July 30, 2026 at 06:02 UTC
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A pixelated image of a smiling person with short hair, next to pink text reading 'Person:' on a black background.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 22:58 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,826 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,145, response 602

Review tags

  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark (color, 0.80)
  • light (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling

Colors

  • brown
  • light
  • dark
  • black
  • pink

Composition

  • split left-right
  • left: person close-up
  • right: text on solid background

Dense Caption

The left side shows a pixelated close-up of a person's head and shoulders; the person has short brown hair, light skin, visible teeth in a smile, and is wearing a dark top. The right side features solid black background with bright pink text reading 'Person:' in a blocky, retro digital font. The image uses low-resolution pixelation throughout.

Description

  • A pixelated image of a smiling person with short hair, next to pink text reading 'Person:' on a black background.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080403182810444856542

Mood

  • happy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person smiling pixelated pink text black background
  • pixelated person brown hair light skin dark top
  • retro digital font 'Person:' text

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • Person:

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • smiling person
  • short brown hair
  • light skin
  • dark top
  • black background
  • pink text
  • 'Person:'
  • retro digital 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
20080403182810444856542
Archive entry
20080403182810444856542.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 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#20080403182810444856542.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080403182810444856542.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016