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Pixelated image of a person in an orange shirt with glasses, set against a patterned background, with blue text on a purple field.

Pixelated image of a person in an orange shirt with glasses, set against a patterned background, with blue text on a purple field. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • left side: person with background
  • right side: solid purple field with text
  • bottom left: text block

Dense Caption

Pixelated image shows a person with short dark hair, wearing glasses and an orange collared shirt, positioned against a light blue patterned background. The right side features a solid bright purple field with blue pixelated text: 'I LOVE NERDS I LOVE NERDS' arranged vertically. The bottom left has blue pixelated text: 'YOUR BIG GLASSES HYPNOTIZE ME' arranged vertically. Text uses a blocky, low-resolution font typical of early digital graphics. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated appearance with visible dithering and color banding.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person in an orange shirt with glasses, set against a patterned background, with blue text on a purple field.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20090301110109172682487

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • nerds glasses hypnosis
  • orange shirt glasses text
  • purple background blue text
  • pixelated text glasses
  • humorous text glasses
  • low-resolution glasses text
  • nerds hypnosis text
  • glasses hypnosis text

Preprocessing Notes

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata not confirmed by pixels

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

Visible Text

  • I
  • LOVE
  • NERDS
  • YOUR
  • BIG
  • GLASSES
  • HYPNOTIZE
  • ME

Wordwall

  • person in orange shirt
  • glasses
  • light blue patterned background
  • bright purple field
  • blue pixelated text
  • I LOVE NERDS
  • YOUR BIG GLASSES HYPNOTIZE ME
  • blocky font
  • low-resolution
  • pixelated appearance
  • dithering
  • color banding

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090301110109172682487
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.3 KB
Motion
Animated (4 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 15:53 UTC
Archive ID
56e8837016ecc9b4
SHA-256
56e8837016ecc9b4a7010cd5da0a1b748bcad04fbfc99192863b60b5da43acb9
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 12, 2026 at 08:19 UTC
Run
1284
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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July 23, 2026 at 16:29 UTC
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Pixelated image of a person in an orange shirt with glasses, set against a patterned background, with blue text on a purple field.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 01:11 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,308 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,106, response 848

Review tags

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  • bright purple (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • glasses (object, 0.80)
  • orange shirt (object, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • orange
  • light blue
  • bright purple
  • blue

Composition

  • left side: person with background
  • right side: solid purple field with text
  • bottom left: text block

Dense Caption

Pixelated image shows a person with short dark hair, wearing glasses and an orange collared shirt, positioned against a light blue patterned background. The right side features a solid bright purple field with blue pixelated text: 'I LOVE NERDS I LOVE NERDS' arranged vertically. The bottom left has blue pixelated text: 'YOUR BIG GLASSES HYPNOTIZE ME' arranged vertically. Text uses a blocky, low-resolution font typical of early digital graphics. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated appearance with visible dithering and color banding.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person in an orange shirt with glasses, set against a patterned background, with blue text on a purple field.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20090301110109172682487

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • playful
  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • nerds glasses hypnosis
  • orange shirt glasses text
  • purple background blue text
  • pixelated text glasses
  • humorous text glasses
  • low-resolution glasses text
  • nerds hypnosis text
  • glasses hypnosis text

Objects

  • glasses
  • orange shirt

Preprocessing Notes

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata not confirmed by pixels

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
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  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • I
  • LOVE
  • NERDS
  • YOUR
  • BIG
  • GLASSES
  • HYPNOTIZE
  • ME

Wordwall

  • person in orange shirt
  • glasses
  • light blue patterned background
  • bright purple field
  • blue pixelated text
  • I LOVE NERDS
  • YOUR BIG GLASSES HYPNOTIZE ME
  • blocky font
  • low-resolution
  • pixelated appearance
  • dithering
  • color banding
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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
20090301110109172682487
Archive entry
20090301110109172682487.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 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#20090301110109172682487.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090301110109172682487.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016