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A pixelated image of a smiling person with brown hair, wearing a white shirt and blue background.

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A pixelated image of a smiling person with brown hair, wearing a white shirt and blue background.

A pixelated image of a smiling person with brown hair, wearing a white shirt and blue background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered subject
  • text in top-left and bottom-left quadrants

Dense Caption

The image shows a close-up of a person with light brown curly hair, wearing a white collared shirt. The background is blurred blue with bright circular highlights. In the top-left quadrant, pink text reads "SHECKLER"; in the top-right, a single pink equals sign appears. In the bottom-left, pink text reads "HOTTIEx33." The image has low resolution and pixelation typical of early 2000s digital media.

Description

  • A pixelated image of a smiling person with brown hair, wearing a white shirt and blue background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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 Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown hair white shirt blue background pink text SHECKLER HOTTIEx33 equals sign
  • SHECKLER HOTTIEx33 pixelated image smiling person

Preprocessing Notes

  • The image appears to be a static frame from an animated sequence; no motion changes are visible.

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Visible Text

  • SHECKLER
  • HOTTIEx33
  • =

Visually Supported Entities

  • SHECKLER
  • HOTTIEx33

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • white shirt
  • blue background
  • pink text
  • SHECKLER
  • HOTTIEx33
  • equals sign
  • pixelated

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709211751051287398695
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:46 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.6 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/47/47406769c27adbceb94c2d8ce012703bda015895ef8e89466e6f866847020ebe.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:46 UTC
Archive ID
47406769c27adbce
SHA-256
47406769c27adbceb94c2d8ce012703bda015895ef8e89466e6f866847020ebe
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:57 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.090447

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.920198onnx/unsafe0.090447onnx/nsfw0.050240onnx/nsfl0.040207
Enrichment records (1)
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A pixelated image of a smiling person with brown hair, wearing a white shirt and blue background.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 03:33 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,481 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 676

Review tags

  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling

Colors

  • brown
  • white
  • blue
  • pink

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered subject
  • text in top-left and bottom-left quadrants

Dense Caption

The image shows a close-up of a person with light brown curly hair, wearing a white collared shirt. The background is blurred blue with bright circular highlights. In the top-left quadrant, pink text reads "SHECKLER"; in the top-right, a single pink equals sign appears. In the bottom-left, pink text reads "HOTTIEx33." The image has low resolution and pixelation typical of early 2000s digital media.

Description

  • A pixelated image of a smiling person with brown hair, wearing a white shirt and blue background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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 Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007

Mood

  • happy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown hair white shirt blue background pink text SHECKLER HOTTIEx33 equals sign
  • SHECKLER HOTTIEx33 pixelated image smiling person

Preprocessing Notes

  • The image appears to be a static frame from an animated sequence; no motion changes are visible.

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • SHECKLER
  • HOTTIEx33
  • =

Visually Supported Entities

  • SHECKLER
  • HOTTIEx33

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • white shirt
  • blue background
  • pink text
  • SHECKLER
  • HOTTIEx33
  • equals sign
  • pixelated
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Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
200709211751051287398695
Archive entry
200709211751051287398695.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:46 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#200709211751051287398695.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709211751051287398695.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016