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A pixelated image of a person with short dark hair wearing a dark shirt, positioned next to green text on a black background.

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A pixelated image of a person with short dark hair wearing a dark shirt, positioned next to green text on a black background.

A pixelated image of a person with short dark hair wearing a dark shirt, positioned next to green text on a black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archi…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split composition
  • left portrait
  • right text

Dense Caption

The left side shows a pixelated portrait of a person with short dark hair and a dark shirt against a gray background. The right side features green pixelated text on a black background: two '<3' symbols at the top, 'SHIA' in the middle, 'LABEOUF' below it, and two '<3' symbols at the bottom. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance with visible pixelation throughout.

Description

  • A pixelated image of a person with short dark hair wearing a dark shirt, positioned next to green text on a black background.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Shia LaBeouf

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Named Entities

  • Shia LaBeouf

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Shia LaBeouf <3
  • green text <3
  • pixelated portrait <3
  • celebrity <3
  • retro digital <3
  • green text black background
  • pixelated <3

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be upscaled or low-resolution

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

Visible Text

  • <3
  • SHIA
  • LABEOUF

Visually Supported Entities

  • Shia LaBeouf

Wordwall

  • <3 symbols
  • SHIA
  • LABEOUF
  • green text
  • black background
  • gray background
  • pixelated portrait
  • short dark hair
  • dark shirt
  • retro digital

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070828214032190563207
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.8 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/50/50be1f9940c15c9d5fec5914bbe373ff9cbe06cc70c1cc309970f306df537dca.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 UTC
Archive ID
50be1f9940c15c9d
SHA-256
50be1f9940c15c9d5fec5914bbe373ff9cbe06cc70c1cc309970f306df537dca
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:21 UTC
Run
1034
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.101451

OpenAI category scores

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

A pixelated image of a person with short dark hair wearing a dark shirt, positioned next to green text on a black background.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 06:53 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,123 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,140, response 715

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • dark brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • celebratory (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • green
  • black
  • gray
  • dark brown

Composition

  • split composition
  • left portrait
  • right text

Dense Caption

The left side shows a pixelated portrait of a person with short dark hair and a dark shirt against a gray background. The right side features green pixelated text on a black background: two '<3' symbols at the top, 'SHIA' in the middle, 'LABEOUF' below it, and two '<3' symbols at the bottom. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance with visible pixelation throughout.

Description

  • A pixelated image of a person with short dark hair wearing a dark shirt, positioned next to green text on a black background.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Shia LaBeouf

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Mood

  • affectionate
  • celebratory

Named Entities

  • Shia LaBeouf

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Shia LaBeouf <3
  • green text <3
  • pixelated portrait <3
  • celebrity <3
  • retro digital <3
  • green text black background
  • pixelated <3

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be upscaled or low-resolution

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • <3
  • SHIA
  • LABEOUF

Visually Supported Entities

  • Shia LaBeouf

Wordwall

  • <3 symbols
  • SHIA
  • LABEOUF
  • green text
  • black background
  • gray background
  • pixelated portrait
  • short dark hair
  • dark shirt
  • retro digital
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 13:30 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)
Raw JSON
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
20070828214032190563207
Archive entry
20070828214032190563207.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 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#20070828214032190563207.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070828214032190563207.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016