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A static image shows a person with short dark hair and a light beard against a light background, with red text reading "Hi" and "I am stin Timberl" on a red field.

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A static image shows a person with short dark hair and a light beard against a light background, with red text reading "Hi" and "I am stin Timberl" on a red field.

A static image shows a person with short dark hair and a light beard against a light background, with red text reading "Hi" and "I am stin Timberl" on a red field. Animated 48×48…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; the image is static.

Composition

  • cropped portrait on left
  • text on red background
  • upper right text
  • centered lower text

Dense Caption

The image is a static composition with a red background occupying the majority of the frame. On the left side, there is a cropped portrait of a person with short dark hair and a light beard, wearing a dark top. The background behind the portrait is light and indistinct. On the red background, black pixelated text appears: "Hi" is positioned in the upper right corner, and "I am stin Timberl" is centered horizontally below it. The text "I am" is on the left side of the lower text block, and "stin Timberl" is on the right side. The text is rendered in a blocky, pixelated font typical of early digital graphics. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated appearance.

Description

A static image shows a person with short dark hair and a light beard against a light background, with red text reading "Hi" and "I am stin Timberl" on a red field.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 2011111102282358041774

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background pixelated text
  • person short dark hair beard
  • text Hi I am stin Timberl
  • cropped portrait red field
  • blocky font low-resolution
  • text upper right centered lower
  • light indistinct background
  • black pixelated text

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be a cropped section of a larger graphic

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

  • Hi
  • I am stin Timberl

Wordwall

  • red background
  • cropped portrait
  • short dark hair
  • light beard
  • dark top
  • black pixelated text
  • text "Hi"
  • text "I am stin Timberl"
  • blocky font
  • low-resolution
  • light indistinct background
  • upper right text
  • centered lower text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2011111102282358041774
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:09 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/89/8964f17cf46e3d1dce02eb466a7405f42e54c8a189ac9e987697c53aa127e600.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:09 UTC
Archive ID
8964f17cf46e3d1d
SHA-256
8964f17cf46e3d1dce02eb466a7405f42e54c8a189ac9e987697c53aa127e600
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:39 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.116369

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.924550onnx/unsafe0.116369onnx/nsfw0.077216onnx/nsfl0.039154
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A static image shows a person with short dark hair and a light beard against a light background, with red text reading "Hi" and "I am stin Timberl" on a red field.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 01:18 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,089 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 973

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • dark brown (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • friendly (mood, 0.80)
  • informal (mood, 0.80)
  • static (other, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; the image is static.

Colors

  • red
  • black
  • light gray
  • dark brown

Composition

  • cropped portrait on left
  • text on red background
  • upper right text
  • centered lower text

Dense Caption

The image is a static composition with a red background occupying the majority of the frame. On the left side, there is a cropped portrait of a person with short dark hair and a light beard, wearing a dark top. The background behind the portrait is light and indistinct. On the red background, black pixelated text appears: "Hi" is positioned in the upper right corner, and "I am stin Timberl" is centered horizontally below it. The text "I am" is on the left side of the lower text block, and "stin Timberl" is on the right side. The text is rendered in a blocky, pixelated font typical of early digital graphics. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated appearance.

Description

A static image shows a person with short dark hair and a light beard against a light background, with red text reading "Hi" and "I am stin Timberl" on a red field.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 2011111102282358041774

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • friendly
  • informal

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background pixelated text
  • person short dark hair beard
  • text Hi I am stin Timberl
  • cropped portrait red field
  • blocky font low-resolution
  • text upper right centered lower
  • light indistinct background
  • black pixelated text

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be a cropped section of a larger graphic

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky text
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • Hi
  • I am stin Timberl

Wordwall

  • red background
  • cropped portrait
  • short dark hair
  • light beard
  • dark top
  • black pixelated text
  • text "Hi"
  • text "I am stin Timberl"
  • blocky font
  • low-resolution
  • light indistinct background
  • upper right text
  • centered lower text
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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
2011111102282358041774
Archive entry
2011111102282358041774.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:09 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#2011111102282358041774.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2011111102282358041774.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016