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Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and sunglasses on left, green background with text on right.

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Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and sunglasses on left, green background with text on right.

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

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • vertical split
  • left person
  • right text

Dense Caption

Left side shows a pixelated person with dark shoulder-length hair, wearing black sunglasses and a dark jacket over a light shirt with a patterned necklace. Right side has solid green background with black pixelated text reading "He's so hot! <3". The image is split vertically with the person on the left and text on the right. Pixelation is consistent across the entire image. The person's expression is neutral. The text uses a blocky, retro digital font. The green background is uniform with no gradients or patterns.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and sunglasses on left, green background with text on 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 topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person sunglasses green background text
  • He's so hot <3
  • pixelated person green text
  • split composition sunglasses text

Visible Text

  • He's so hot! <3

Wordwall

  • pixelated person
  • dark shoulder-length hair
  • black sunglasses
  • dark jacket
  • light patterned shirt
  • necklace
  • green background
  • black text
  • He's so hot!
  • <3
  • vertical split
  • retro digital font
  • neutral expression
  • solid green
  • blocky text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708271734461729191667
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/45/452381331956b6b701256edc8b7b9c201ee4370775c26d21098992db59e96ec3.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC
Archive ID
452381331956b6b7
SHA-256
452381331956b6b701256edc8b7b9c201ee4370775c26d21098992db59e96ec3
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:55 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.124925

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and sunglasses on left, green background with text on right.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 06:19 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,570 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,149, response 709

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • necklace (object, 0.80)
  • sunglasses (object, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • split composition (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • green
  • black
  • light blue
  • dark brown
  • light brown
  • white

Composition

  • vertical split
  • left person
  • right text

Dense Caption

Left side shows a pixelated person with dark shoulder-length hair, wearing black sunglasses and a dark jacket over a light shirt with a patterned necklace. Right side has solid green background with black pixelated text reading "He's so hot! <3". The image is split vertically with the person on the left and text on the right. Pixelation is consistent across the entire image. The person's expression is neutral. The text uses a blocky, retro digital font. The green background is uniform with no gradients or patterns.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and sunglasses on left, green background with text on 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 topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral
  • affectionate

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person sunglasses green background text
  • He's so hot <3
  • pixelated person green text
  • split composition sunglasses text

Objects

  • sunglasses
  • necklace
  • text

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • split composition

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • He's so hot! <3

Wordwall

  • pixelated person
  • dark shoulder-length hair
  • black sunglasses
  • dark jacket
  • light patterned shirt
  • necklace
  • green background
  • black text
  • He's so hot!
  • <3
  • vertical split
  • retro digital font
  • neutral expression
  • solid green
  • blocky text
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 13:21 UTC
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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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
200708271734461729191667
Archive entry
200708271734461729191667.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 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#200708271734461729191667.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708271734461729191667.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016