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Pixelated image of a person with brown curly hair wearing a red shirt against a light blue pixelated background with cyan text on the right.

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Pixelated image of a person with brown curly hair wearing a red shirt against a light blue pixelated background with cyan text on the right.

Pixelated image of a person with brown curly hair wearing a red shirt against a light blue pixelated background with cyan text on the right. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split composition
  • left portrait
  • right text

Dense Caption

The image is a static pixelated portrait of a person with brown curly hair and a red shirt. The background is light blue with a pixelated pattern. On the right side, there is cyan text that reads "IM.....!Dynamite!". The image has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance typical of early internet graphics. The person's expression is neutral. The text is in a pixelated font style. The overall composition is split between the portrait on the left and the text on the right.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with brown curly hair wearing a red shirt against a light blue pixelated background with cyan text on the right.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown curly hair red shirt
  • IM Dynamite text
  • pixelated retro digital
  • split composition neutral expression

Visible Text

  • IM.....
  • !Dynamite!

Wordwall

  • brown curly hair
  • red shirt
  • light blue background
  • cyan text
  • IM.....!Dynamite!
  • pixelated
  • neutral expression
  • retro digital
  • split composition
  • left portrait
  • right text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070731153037994539787
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/81/8172312e2fb5255454477140382dfa79ef0171834783674746bee88eea38ebef.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 UTC
Archive ID
8172312e2fb52554
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
July 29, 2026 at 12:50 UTC
Run
1245
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.032033

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:25 UTC
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1101
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Overall score
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Pixelated image of a person with brown curly hair wearing a red shirt against a light blue pixelated background with cyan text on the right.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 16:58 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,517 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,141, response 667

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • brown
  • red
  • light blue
  • cyan
  • black

Composition

  • split composition
  • left portrait
  • right text

Dense Caption

The image is a static pixelated portrait of a person with brown curly hair and a red shirt. The background is light blue with a pixelated pattern. On the right side, there is cyan text that reads "IM.....!Dynamite!". The image has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance typical of early internet graphics. The person's expression is neutral. The text is in a pixelated font style. The overall composition is split between the portrait on the left and the text on the right.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with brown curly hair wearing a red shirt against a light blue pixelated background with cyan text on the right.

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

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown curly hair red shirt
  • IM Dynamite text
  • pixelated retro digital
  • split composition neutral expression

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • IM.....
  • !Dynamite!

Wordwall

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  • red shirt
  • light blue background
  • cyan text
  • IM.....!Dynamite!
  • pixelated
  • neutral expression
  • retro digital
  • split composition
  • left portrait
  • right text
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 09:57 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)
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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
20070731153037994539787
Archive entry
20070731153037994539787.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 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#20070731153037994539787.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070731153037994539787.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016