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A pixelated image of a person in a red shirt with repeated 'HEY' text on a red background.

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A pixelated image of a person in a red shirt with repeated 'HEY' text on a red background.

A pixelated image of a person in a red shirt with repeated 'HEY' text on a red background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…,…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • portrait on left
  • text on right and bottom
  • red background

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated portrait of a person with short dark hair and a red shirt, positioned on the left side of a red background. The right side and bottom of the image contain repeated 'HEY' text in black, arranged in vertical and horizontal columns. The text appears in a bold, blocky font with slight pixelation. The overall style is low-resolution and pixelated, typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • A pixelated image of a person in a red shirt with repeated 'HEY' text on a red background.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person red shirt hey text
  • pixelated hey text red background
  • red background hey text
  • low resolution hey text portrait

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: horizontal text columns
  • quarantined wordwall: vertical text columns
  • quarantined composition: text columns on right and bottom
  • quarantined retrieval: red background hey text columns

Visible Text

  • HEY

Wordwall

  • red background
  • pixelated portrait
  • short dark hair
  • red shirt
  • repeated 'HEY' text
  • black blocky font
  • vertical text
  • horizontal text
  • low-resolution graphics

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200807031506461582104319
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.8 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/72/725bc0280d55e849a3f818555d105feedff8c0c4039af5e3f8718027b35221ff.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 UTC
Archive ID
725bc0280d55e849
SHA-256
725bc0280d55e849a3f818555d105feedff8c0c4039af5e3f8718027b35221ff
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 10, 2026 at 04:53 UTC
Run
1278
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000579

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:56 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.191846

OpenAI category scores

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A pixelated image of a person in a red shirt with repeated 'HEY' text on a red background.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 10:23 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,382 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 592

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • energetic (mood, 0.80)
  • repetitive (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • portrait on left
  • text on right and bottom
  • red background

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated portrait of a person with short dark hair and a red shirt, positioned on the left side of a red background. The right side and bottom of the image contain repeated 'HEY' text in black, arranged in vertical and horizontal columns. The text appears in a bold, blocky font with slight pixelation. The overall style is low-resolution and pixelated, typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • A pixelated image of a person in a red shirt with repeated 'HEY' text on a red background.

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

Mood

  • energetic
  • repetitive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person red shirt hey text
  • pixelated hey text red background
  • red background hey text
  • low resolution hey text portrait

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: horizontal text columns
  • quarantined wordwall: vertical text columns
  • quarantined composition: text columns on right and bottom
  • quarantined retrieval: red background hey text columns

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • HEY

Wordwall

  • red background
  • pixelated portrait
  • short dark hair
  • red shirt
  • repeated 'HEY' text
  • black blocky font
  • vertical text
  • horizontal text
  • low-resolution graphics
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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
200807031506461582104319
Archive entry
200807031506461582104319.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 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#200807031506461582104319.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200807031506461582104319.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016