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Pixelated portrait of a person with light brown hair and gray shirt on cyan background, with pink text "I Need to Diet" below.

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Pixelated portrait of a person with light brown hair and gray shirt on cyan background, with pink text "I Need to Diet" below.

Pixelated portrait of a person with light brown hair and gray shirt on cyan background, with pink text "I Need to Diet" below. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Arch…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • left portrait
  • right text
  • bottom-aligned text

Dense Caption

Cyan background. Left side shows pixelated image of person with short light brown hair, wearing gray collared shirt; visible neck and chest area. Right side has single pink letter 'I' above bottom row of pink text: 'Need', 'to', 'Diet'. Text uses blocky, low-resolution font typical of early digital graphics. Image appears cropped at top-left corner.

Description

  • Pixelated portrait of a person with light brown hair and gray shirt on cyan background, with pink text "I Need to Diet" below.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background person gray shirt pink text
  • I Need to Diet pixelated portrait
  • low-resolution digital graphics humor
  • blocky font cyan background

Visible Text

  • I
  • Need
  • to
  • Diet

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • pixelated portrait
  • light brown hair
  • gray collared shirt
  • pink text
  • 'I' letter
  • 'Need' word
  • 'to' word
  • 'Diet' word
  • blocky font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200907281122371989051731
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 UTC

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Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 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 16:00 UTC
Archive ID
61bb1323613ffd8f
SHA-256
61bb1323613ffd8f06baea5cccfe099abda1cb7668896bff7f6189375a6e568d
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 7, 2026 at 18:44 UTC
Run
1272
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.080104

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July 23, 2026 at 07:34 UTC
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Pixelated portrait of a person with light brown hair and gray shirt on cyan background, with pink text "I Need to Diet" below.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 15:25 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,965 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,106, response 569

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution digital graphics (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • gray
  • light brown
  • pink

Composition

  • left portrait
  • right text
  • bottom-aligned text

Dense Caption

Cyan background. Left side shows pixelated image of person with short light brown hair, wearing gray collared shirt; visible neck and chest area. Right side has single pink letter 'I' above bottom row of pink text: 'Need', 'to', 'Diet'. Text uses blocky, low-resolution font typical of early digital graphics. Image appears cropped at top-left corner.

Description

  • Pixelated portrait of a person with light brown hair and gray shirt on cyan background, with pink text "I Need to Diet" below.

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

Mood

  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background person gray shirt pink text
  • I Need to Diet pixelated portrait
  • low-resolution digital graphics humor
  • blocky font cyan background

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution digital graphics

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • I
  • Need
  • to
  • Diet

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • pixelated portrait
  • light brown hair
  • gray collared shirt
  • pink text
  • 'I' letter
  • 'Need' word
  • 'to' word
  • 'Diet' word
  • blocky font
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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
200907281122371989051731
Archive entry
200907281122371989051731.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 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#200907281122371989051731.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200907281122371989051731.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016