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Pixelated image of a person wearing a black cap with visible text and a yellow-and-red emblem, shirtless against a light background.

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Pixelated image of a person wearing a black cap with visible text and a yellow-and-red emblem, shirtless against a light background.

Pixelated image of a person wearing a black cap with visible text and a yellow-and-red emblem, shirtless against a light background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered subject
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Pixelated image shows a person from the shoulders up, wearing a black cap with partially visible text "HOT" on the front and a yellow-and-red emblem on the right side. The person has short dark hair, light skin, and is shirtless. The background is a solid light beige color. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation, typical of early 2000s digital art. The cap's brim is angled downward on the left side. The person's mouth is slightly open, and the eyes are looking toward the right side of the frame.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person wearing a black cap with visible text and a yellow-and-red emblem, shirtless against a light background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200708201105422090217172

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person black cap yellow red emblem
  • black cap text HOT
  • shirtless pixelated image
  • beige background person

Preprocessing Notes

  • low resolution
  • pixelated

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Visible Text

  • HOT

Wordwall

  • black cap
  • yellow-red emblem
  • light beige background
  • shirtless
  • pixelated
  • text "HOT"
  • short dark hair
  • light skin
  • mouth slightly open
  • eyes right

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708201105422090217172
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/72/7292e7cb70d26ef1f7e477e995534a7e7293e676b49d6142cb7c6ed535a2f760.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC
Archive ID
7292e7cb70d26ef1
SHA-256
7292e7cb70d26ef1f7e477e995534a7e7293e676b49d6142cb7c6ed535a2f760
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 12, 2026 at 08:30 UTC
Run
1284
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.010287

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:57 UTC
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1039
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated image of a person wearing a black cap with visible text and a yellow-and-red emblem, shirtless against a light background.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 02:39 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,417 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,096, response 759

Review tags

  • beige (color, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • black cap (object, 0.80)
  • yellow red emblem (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • yellow
  • red
  • beige
  • light brown

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered subject
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Pixelated image shows a person from the shoulders up, wearing a black cap with partially visible text "HOT" on the front and a yellow-and-red emblem on the right side. The person has short dark hair, light skin, and is shirtless. The background is a solid light beige color. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation, typical of early 2000s digital art. The cap's brim is angled downward on the left side. The person's mouth is slightly open, and the eyes are looking toward the right side of the frame.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person wearing a black cap with visible text and a yellow-and-red emblem, shirtless against a light background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200708201105422090217172

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person black cap yellow red emblem
  • black cap text HOT
  • shirtless pixelated image
  • beige background person

Objects

  • black cap
  • yellow-red emblem

Preprocessing Notes

  • low resolution
  • pixelated

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Style

  • pixel art
  • low resolution

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • HOT

Wordwall

  • black cap
  • yellow-red emblem
  • light beige background
  • shirtless
  • pixelated
  • text "HOT"
  • short dark hair
  • light skin
  • mouth slightly open
  • eyes right
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 12:19 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
Raw JSON
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
200708201105422090217172
Archive entry
200708201105422090217172.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 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#200708201105422090217172.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708201105422090217172.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016