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Pixelated image of a person with brown hair in red shirt against blue patterned background, split into four quadrants with text overlays.

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Pixelated image of a person with brown hair in red shirt against blue patterned background, split into four quadrants with text overlays.

Pixelated image of a person with brown hair in red shirt against blue patterned background, split into four quadrants with text overlays. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from In…

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • 4-quadrant split
  • top-left: person, top-right: text, bottom-left: text, bottom-right: solid gray

Dense Caption

...gosh (bottom-left orange quadrant), gimme some bobs (top-right orange quadrant) - all text is blue pixelated sans-serif. Top-left quadrant shows upper body of individual with light skin tone and brown curly hair wearing red shirt; background has light blue patterned texture. Bottom-right quadrant is solid gray. Image uses 4-quadrant grid composition, low-resolution pixel art style.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with brown hair in red shirt against blue patterned background, split into four quadrants with text overlays.

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

  • brown curly hair red shirt
  • gimme some bobs ...gosh
  • pixel art text
  • orange gray blue quadrants

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined style: grid composition
  • quarantined retrieval: pixel art grid text

Visible Text

  • gimme some bobs
  • ...gosh

Visually Supported Entities

  • person with brown curly hair

Wordwall

  • brown curly hair
  • red shirt
  • blue text
  • orange quadrants
  • gray quadrant
  • pixelated sans-serif font
  • ...gosh
  • gimme some bobs

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080723134430819801416
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.8 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/82/8250f9d565953a73923ca04466d1d8f9ed7ae652bd22cd542a1528769d4ba7a0.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 UTC
Archive ID
8250f9d565953a73
SHA-256
8250f9d565953a73923ca04466d1d8f9ed7ae652bd22cd542a1528769d4ba7a0
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:27 UTC
Run
1105
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.087011

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image of a person with brown hair in red shirt against blue patterned background, split into four quadrants with text overlays.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 13:50 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,452 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 586

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • composition (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • person with brown curly hair (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • blue
  • orange
  • gray
  • light blue

Composition

  • 4-quadrant split
  • top-left: person, top-right: text, bottom-left: text, bottom-right: solid gray

Dense Caption

...gosh (bottom-left orange quadrant), gimme some bobs (top-right orange quadrant) - all text is blue pixelated sans-serif. Top-left quadrant shows upper body of individual with light skin tone and brown curly hair wearing red shirt; background has light blue patterned texture. Bottom-right quadrant is solid gray. Image uses 4-quadrant grid composition, low-resolution pixel art style.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with brown hair in red shirt against blue patterned background, split into four quadrants with text overlays.

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

  • brown curly hair red shirt
  • gimme some bobs ...gosh
  • pixel art text
  • orange gray blue quadrants

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined style: grid composition
  • quarantined retrieval: pixel art grid text

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • composition

Subjects

  • person with brown curly hair

Visible Text

  • gimme some bobs
  • ...gosh

Visually Supported Entities

  • person with brown curly hair

Wordwall

  • brown curly hair
  • red shirt
  • blue text
  • orange quadrants
  • gray quadrant
  • pixelated sans-serif font
  • ...gosh
  • gimme some bobs
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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
20080723134430819801416
Archive entry
20080723134430819801416.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 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#20080723134430819801416.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080723134430819801416.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016