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A pixelated image of a person with brown curly hair smiling, next to a bright blue background with repeated text.

A pixelated image of a person with brown curly hair smiling, next to a bright blue background with repeated text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIco…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split composition
  • left: person
  • right: text

Dense Caption

The left side shows a pixelated close-up of a person with brown curly hair, light skin, and a smiling expression. The right side features a solid bright blue background with the word "HOTTIE" repeated five times in bold, dark brown, pixelated capital letters, each line centered vertically. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation across all elements.

Description

  • A pixelated image of a person with brown curly hair smiling, next to a bright blue background with repeated 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 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200711301542082012055954

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown curly hair smiling person
  • blue background repeated text
  • pixelated text buddy icon
  • five lines of HOTTIE text
  • text-based buddy icon
  • smiling person pixelated
  • HOTTIE repeated five times
  • split composition text and person

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled

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

  • HOTTIE

Wordwall

  • brown curly hair
  • smiling expression
  • bright blue background
  • repeated text
  • pixelated
  • solid color background
  • bold capital letters
  • five lines of text
  • dark brown text
  • centered text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200711301542082012055954
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:01 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.8 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/84/84fa0adc774fb2765bea66f579dc81ac559c455b76243ad8d01bcaa4120f8b20.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:01 UTC
Archive ID
84fa0adc774fb276
SHA-256
84fa0adc774fb2765bea66f579dc81ac559c455b76243ad8d01bcaa4120f8b20
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:33 UTC
Run
1119
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.131241

OpenAI category scores

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

A pixelated image of a person with brown curly hair smiling, next to a bright blue background with repeated text.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 12:36 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,733 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,143, response 818

Review tags

  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • light skin (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling

Colors

  • brown
  • blue
  • light skin

Composition

  • split composition
  • left: person
  • right: text

Dense Caption

The left side shows a pixelated close-up of a person with brown curly hair, light skin, and a smiling expression. The right side features a solid bright blue background with the word "HOTTIE" repeated five times in bold, dark brown, pixelated capital letters, each line centered vertically. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation across all elements.

Description

  • A pixelated image of a person with brown curly hair smiling, next to a bright blue background with repeated 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 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200711301542082012055954

Mood

  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • blue background repeated text
  • pixelated text buddy icon
  • five lines of HOTTIE text
  • text-based buddy icon
  • smiling person pixelated
  • HOTTIE repeated five times
  • split composition text and person

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled

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
  • text-based

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • HOTTIE

Wordwall

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  • smiling expression
  • bright blue background
  • repeated text
  • pixelated
  • solid color background
  • bold capital letters
  • five lines of text
  • dark brown text
  • centered text
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 21:50 UTC
Run
53
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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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
200711301542082012055954
Archive entry
200711301542082012055954.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:01 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#200711301542082012055954.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200711301542082012055954.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016