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Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair wearing a red shirt, next to a cyan background with pink pixelated text.

Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair wearing a red shirt, next to a cyan background with pink pixelated text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • vertical split
  • left: person
  • right: text on solid background

Dense Caption

The image is split vertically. Left side shows a person with light brown hair and a red shirt, cropped to the shoulders. Right side has a cyan background with pink pixelated text reading "rock on=p soccer rocks! be strong!= do bombb!=". The text uses a blocky, retro font. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation. The person's hair is styled with volume, and the shirt is solid red. The cyan background is uniform. The text is arranged in four lines. The overall style is reminiscent of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair wearing a red shirt, next to a cyan background with pink pixelated 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: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080629062702141049917

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • light brown hair red shirt cyan background pink text
  • pixelated retro text soccer rocks
  • vertical split person text cyan background
  • blocky text rock on=p soccer rocks be strong do bombb

Preprocessing Notes

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata hints but no authoritative visual claims

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

Visible Text

  • rock on=p
  • soccer rocks!
  • be strong!=
  • do bombb!=

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  • light brown hair
  • red shirt
  • cyan background
  • pink pixelated text
  • retro font
  • low resolution
  • pixelation
  • vertical split
  • four lines of text
  • blocky text
  • solid red shirt
  • uniform cyan background
  • person cropped to shoulders
  • text reads rock on=p soccer rocks! be strong!= do bombb!=

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080629062702141049917
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
2.5 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/76/76586845e3e98f20c37581825893cc2eab5913237aaa536b99d2778f2c4520f5.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 UTC
Archive ID
76586845e3e98f20
SHA-256
76586845e3e98f20c37581825893cc2eab5913237aaa536b99d2778f2c4520f5
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 7, 2026 at 12:33 UTC
Run
1272
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.082864

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:01 UTC
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1043
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair wearing a red shirt, next to a cyan background with pink pixelated text.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 09:24 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,843 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,147, response 886

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • energetic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • light brown
  • red
  • cyan
  • pink

Composition

  • vertical split
  • left: person
  • right: text on solid background

Dense Caption

The image is split vertically. Left side shows a person with light brown hair and a red shirt, cropped to the shoulders. Right side has a cyan background with pink pixelated text reading "rock on=p soccer rocks! be strong!= do bombb!=". The text uses a blocky, retro font. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation. The person's hair is styled with volume, and the shirt is solid red. The cyan background is uniform. The text is arranged in four lines. The overall style is reminiscent of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair wearing a red shirt, next to a cyan background with pink pixelated 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: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080629062702141049917

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • energetic
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • light brown hair red shirt cyan background pink text
  • pixelated retro text soccer rocks
  • vertical split person text cyan background
  • blocky text rock on=p soccer rocks be strong do bombb

Preprocessing Notes

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata hints but no authoritative visual claims

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • blocky text

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • rock on=p
  • soccer rocks!
  • be strong!=
  • do bombb!=

Wordwall

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  • red shirt
  • cyan background
  • pink pixelated text
  • retro font
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  • pixelation
  • vertical split
  • four lines of text
  • blocky text
  • solid red shirt
  • uniform cyan background
  • person cropped to shoulders
  • text reads rock on=p soccer rocks! be strong!= do bombb!=
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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
20080629062702141049917
Archive entry
20080629062702141049917.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#20080629062702141049917.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080629062702141049917.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016