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Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair and a brown jacket over a white shirt on a yellow background with black text.

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Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair and a brown jacket over a white shirt on a yellow background with black text.

Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair and a brown jacket over a white shirt on a yellow background with black text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Arc…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • left section: person with dark green background
  • right section: yellow background with text

Dense Caption

The image is a static pixelated composition divided into two sections. On the left, a person with light brown hair styled in two braids wears a brown jacket over a white shirt; the background behind the person is dark green. On the right, a bright yellow background contains black pixelated text: 'follow the' at the top, 'yellow brick' in the middle-left, and 'road<3' in the middle-right. The text uses a blocky, retro digital font. The overall style is low-resolution with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair and a brown jacket over a white shirt on a yellow background with black text.

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

  • yellow brick road
  • follow the yellow brick road
  • road<3
  • pixelated person
  • light brown hair braids
  • brown jacket white shirt
  • blocky digital text
  • bright yellow background

Visible Text

  • follow the
  • yellow brick
  • road<3

Wordwall

  • light brown hair
  • two braids
  • brown jacket
  • white shirt
  • dark green background
  • bright yellow background
  • black pixelated text
  • follow the
  • yellow brick
  • road<3
  • blocky digital font
  • low-resolution pixelation

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090222175226896713488
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
1.7 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/5b/5b4402eeec76f0e7b44665fde300759c463a03bdba358213f2731c00529267c3.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 UTC
Archive ID
5b4402eeec76f0e7
SHA-256
5b4402eeec76f0e7b44665fde300759c463a03bdba358213f2731c00529267c3
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:34 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.118315

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair and a brown jacket over a white shirt on a yellow background with black text.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 00:18 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,865 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 728

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • bright yellow (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark green (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • light brown
  • brown
  • white
  • dark green
  • bright yellow
  • black

Composition

  • left section: person with dark green background
  • right section: yellow background with text

Dense Caption

The image is a static pixelated composition divided into two sections. On the left, a person with light brown hair styled in two braids wears a brown jacket over a white shirt; the background behind the person is dark green. On the right, a bright yellow background contains black pixelated text: 'follow the' at the top, 'yellow brick' in the middle-left, and 'road<3' in the middle-right. The text uses a blocky, retro digital font. The overall style is low-resolution with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair and a brown jacket over a white shirt on a yellow background with black text.

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

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow brick road
  • follow the yellow brick road
  • road<3
  • pixelated person
  • light brown hair braids
  • brown jacket white shirt
  • blocky digital text
  • bright yellow background

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • follow the
  • yellow brick
  • road<3

Wordwall

  • light brown hair
  • two braids
  • brown jacket
  • white shirt
  • dark green background
  • bright yellow background
  • black pixelated text
  • follow the
  • yellow brick
  • road<3
  • blocky digital font
  • low-resolution pixelation
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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
20090222175226896713488
Archive entry
20090222175226896713488.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#20090222175226896713488.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090222175226896713488.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016