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Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair in a red shirt on a red background with text reading "Take a Look at my BOYFRIEND!"

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Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair in a red shirt on a red background with text reading "Take a Look at my BOYFRIEND!"

Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair in a red shirt on a red background with text reading "Take a Look at my BOYFRIEND!". Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Inter…

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Mood

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Source terms

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes observed; the image appears static with no motion elements.

Composition

  • left-aligned portrait
  • text on right
  • text at bottom

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated portrait of a person with light brown hair and blue eyes wearing a red shirt, positioned on the left side of a solid red background. The person's right arm is extended horizontally. Text in black pixelated font appears on the right side reading "Take a" and at the bottom reading "Look at my BOYFRIEND!". The image has low resolution with visible pixelation and blocky edges. The person's expression is neutral. The background is uniformly red with no additional elements. The text uses mixed case with "BOYFRIEND" in all capital letters. The image is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair in a red shirt on a red background with text reading "Take a Look at my BOYFRIEND!"

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

Metadata Only Entities

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • light brown hair red shirt
  • red background pixelated text
  • neutral expression extended arm
  • BOYFRIEND all caps text
  • pixelated portrait red background
  • text overlay red background
  • mixed case text all caps
  • low resolution pixelated image

Style

  • text overlay

Visible Text

  • Take a
  • Look at my BOYFRIEND!

Wordwall

  • light brown hair
  • blue eyes
  • red shirt
  • red background
  • pixelated
  • neutral expression
  • extended right arm
  • black text
  • mixed case text
  • all caps text
  • uniform background
  • low resolution
  • blocky edges

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200711260417021659570443
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:00 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/6f/6ff9833fcf107ef2b4f30542a2109dce9d96ea0e29d26d97b2fd8eef3e10962e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:00 UTC
Archive ID
6ff9833fcf107ef2
SHA-256
6ff9833fcf107ef2b4f30542a2109dce9d96ea0e29d26d97b2fd8eef3e10962e
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 7, 2026 at 06:37 UTC
Run
1272
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000558

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:54 UTC
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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair in a red shirt on a red background with text reading "Take a Look at my BOYFRIEND!"

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 11:33 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,785 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 772

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text overlay (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes observed; the image appears static with no motion elements.

Colors

  • red
  • light brown
  • blue
  • black

Composition

  • left-aligned portrait
  • text on right
  • text at bottom

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated portrait of a person with light brown hair and blue eyes wearing a red shirt, positioned on the left side of a solid red background. The person's right arm is extended horizontally. Text in black pixelated font appears on the right side reading "Take a" and at the bottom reading "Look at my BOYFRIEND!". The image has low resolution with visible pixelation and blocky edges. The person's expression is neutral. The background is uniformly red with no additional elements. The text uses mixed case with "BOYFRIEND" in all capital letters. The image is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair in a red shirt on a red background with text reading "Take a Look at my BOYFRIEND!"

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

Metadata Only Entities

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

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • red background pixelated text
  • neutral expression extended arm
  • BOYFRIEND all caps text
  • pixelated portrait red background
  • text overlay red background
  • mixed case text all caps
  • low resolution pixelated image

Style

  • pixelated
  • text overlay

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • Take a
  • Look at my BOYFRIEND!

Wordwall

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  • blue eyes
  • red shirt
  • red background
  • pixelated
  • neutral expression
  • extended right arm
  • black text
  • mixed case text
  • all caps text
  • uniform background
  • low resolution
  • blocky edges
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 21:28 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
200711260417021659570443
Archive entry
200711260417021659570443.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:00 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#200711260417021659570443.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200711260417021659570443.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016