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A pixelated image of a person holding a black phone to their ear, with a yellow background containing pink text.

A pixelated image of a person holding a black phone to their ear, with a yellow background containing pink text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcon…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split left-right
  • left: person
  • right: text

Dense Caption

The image is split into two sections: the left side shows a person with light brown hair wearing a dark jacket over a white shirt and red tie, holding a black phone to their ear; the right side has a solid yellow background with pink pixelated text reading "yo uh hu like watev I'll have my peeps gt bk 2 urs ttfm"; the image uses a low-resolution pixel art style with visible dithering and blocky color transitions.

Description

  • A pixelated image of a person holding a black phone to their ear, with a yellow background containing pink 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

  • person holding phone yellow background pink text
  • pixelated image split composition
  • text yo uh hu like watev
  • low-resolution pixel art phone
  • yellow background pink text casual mood

Visible Text

  • yo uh hu
  • like watev
  • I'll have my
  • peeps gt bk
  • 2 urs ttfm

Wordwall

  • person
  • phone
  • yellow background
  • pink text
  • pixelated
  • light brown hair
  • dark jacket
  • white shirt
  • red tie
  • split composition
  • low-resolution
  • dithering
  • blocky color transitions
  • text: yo uh hu like watev I'll have my peeps gt bk 2 urs ttfm

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200810101719181204424036
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/5d/5dc6daf80643dd52f9ef5ccbeab1aafe39eb3cff8a0b0fabe41105401615a355.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC
Archive ID
5dc6daf80643dd52
SHA-256
5dc6daf80643dd52f9ef5ccbeab1aafe39eb3cff8a0b0fabe41105401615a355
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 7, 2026 at 12:01 UTC
Run
1272
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.016136

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:36 UTC
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1039
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A pixelated image of a person holding a black phone to their ear, with a yellow background containing pink text.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 03:37 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,198 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,138, response 732

Review tags

  • holding phone (action, 0.80)
  • dark (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • casual (mood, 0.80)
  • informal (mood, 0.80)
  • phone (object, 0.80)
  • dithering (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding phone

Colors

  • yellow
  • pink
  • light brown
  • dark
  • white
  • red

Composition

  • split left-right
  • left: person
  • right: text

Dense Caption

The image is split into two sections: the left side shows a person with light brown hair wearing a dark jacket over a white shirt and red tie, holding a black phone to their ear; the right side has a solid yellow background with pink pixelated text reading "yo uh hu like watev I'll have my peeps gt bk 2 urs ttfm"; the image uses a low-resolution pixel art style with visible dithering and blocky color transitions.

Description

  • A pixelated image of a person holding a black phone to their ear, with a yellow background containing pink 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

  • casual
  • informal

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person holding phone yellow background pink text
  • pixelated image split composition
  • text yo uh hu like watev
  • low-resolution pixel art phone
  • yellow background pink text casual mood

Objects

  • phone

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • dithering

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • yo uh hu
  • like watev
  • I'll have my
  • peeps gt bk
  • 2 urs ttfm

Wordwall

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  • phone
  • yellow background
  • pink text
  • pixelated
  • light brown hair
  • dark jacket
  • white shirt
  • red tie
  • split composition
  • low-resolution
  • dithering
  • blocky color transitions
  • text: yo uh hu like watev I'll have my peeps gt bk 2 urs ttfm
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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
200810101719181204424036
Archive entry
200810101719181204424036.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 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#200810101719181204424036.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200810101719181204424036.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016