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Pixelated image of a smiling person with light brown hair wearing a red top against a blue background, next to red pixelated text on black.

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Pixelated image of a smiling person with light brown hair wearing a red top against a blue background, next to red pixelated text on black.

Pixelated image of a smiling person with light brown hair wearing a red top against a blue background, next to red pixelated text on black. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • left: person with blue background
  • right: text and bars on black background

Dense Caption

Pixelated image shows a smiling person with light brown hair and a red top against a blue background on the left. On the right, red pixelated text reads 'hottest' at the top, followed by multiple rows of vertical red bars. Below, red pixelated text reads 'guy on earth!' with 'guy' on the left and 'on earth!' on the right. All text and bars are on a black background. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital style.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a smiling person with light brown hair wearing a red top against a blue background, next to red pixelated text on black.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071124125523409319045
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person smiling red top blue background
  • hottest guy on earth red bars
  • pixelated text black background
  • retro digital style smiling person

Visible Text

  • hottest
  • guy
  • on
  • earth!

Wordwall

  • light brown hair
  • red top
  • blue background
  • smiling expression
  • red pixelated text
  • black background
  • vertical red bars
  • hottest
  • guy on earth!
  • retro digital style

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071124125523409319045
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:00 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/45/45eae94f234b85f8784691cd87d001dae64419b015ace0327941bf78e006a50f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:00 UTC
Archive ID
45eae94f234b85f8
SHA-256
45eae94f234b85f8784691cd87d001dae64419b015ace0327941bf78e006a50f
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 27, 2026 at 10:07 UTC
Run
1351
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.010343

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
August 2, 2026 at 21:42 UTC
Run
1254
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.020249

OpenAI category scores

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onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:56 UTC
Run
107
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image
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.335232

OpenAI category scores

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

Pixelated image of a smiling person with light brown hair wearing a red top against a blue background, next to red pixelated text on black.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 11:03 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,445 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 720

Review tags

  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • vertical red bars (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling

Colors

  • light brown
  • red
  • blue
  • black

Composition

  • left: person with blue background
  • right: text and bars on black background

Dense Caption

Pixelated image shows a smiling person with light brown hair and a red top against a blue background on the left. On the right, red pixelated text reads 'hottest' at the top, followed by multiple rows of vertical red bars. Below, red pixelated text reads 'guy on earth!' with 'guy' on the left and 'on earth!' on the right. All text and bars are on a black background. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital style.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a smiling person with light brown hair wearing a red top against a blue background, next to red pixelated text on black.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071124125523409319045
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • happy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person smiling red top blue background
  • hottest guy on earth red bars
  • pixelated text black background
  • retro digital style smiling person

Objects

  • vertical red bars

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • hottest
  • guy
  • on
  • earth!

Wordwall

  • light brown hair
  • red top
  • blue background
  • smiling expression
  • red pixelated text
  • black background
  • vertical red bars
  • hottest
  • guy on earth!
  • retro digital style
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 21:20 UTC
Run
53
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
20071124125523409319045
Archive entry
20071124125523409319045.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:00 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#20071124125523409319045.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071124125523409319045.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016