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Pixelated image of a person wearing a straw hat and dark sunglasses with large white text overlay reading "Phoe".

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Pixelated image of a person wearing a straw hat and dark sunglasses with large white text overlay reading "Phoe".

Pixelated image of a person wearing a straw hat and dark sunglasses with large white text overlay reading "Phoe". 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text overlay
  • centered subject
  • cropped at shoulders

Dense Caption

Pixelated static image shows a person with light brown hair wearing a straw hat and dark sunglasses. The person has a light brown beard and is wearing a blue shirt. Large white text with black outline overlays the image, reading "Phoe"; the full text is cut off on the right. Background is light blue and white. Image uses low-resolution pixelation with visible dithering.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person wearing a straw hat and dark sunglasses with large white text overlay reading "Phoe".

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
  • 2007-2016
  • 20101023163236249194608

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • straw hat sunglasses text
  • pixelated text cut off
  • light brown beard blue shirt
  • low-resolution pixelated image

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution

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

  • Phoe

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  • straw hat
  • dark sunglasses
  • light brown beard
  • blue shirt
  • white text
  • black outline
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • light blue background
  • white background
  • text cut off
  • dithering

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20101023163236249194608
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:07 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.8 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8b/8b9be9d91c1ea09a66a04bc0ae253274b35b840711e0644e080b220eaa4955d9.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:07 UTC
Archive ID
8b9be9d91c1ea09a
SHA-256
8b9be9d91c1ea09a66a04bc0ae253274b35b840711e0644e080b220eaa4955d9
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:41 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.083484

OpenAI category scores

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

Pixelated image of a person wearing a straw hat and dark sunglasses with large white text overlay reading "Phoe".

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 21:00 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,258 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,093, response 768

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • straw hat (object, 0.80)
  • sunglasses (object, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • light brown
  • blue
  • white
  • black
  • light blue

Composition

  • text overlay
  • centered subject
  • cropped at shoulders

Dense Caption

Pixelated static image shows a person with light brown hair wearing a straw hat and dark sunglasses. The person has a light brown beard and is wearing a blue shirt. Large white text with black outline overlays the image, reading "Phoe"; the full text is cut off on the right. Background is light blue and white. Image uses low-resolution pixelation with visible dithering.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person wearing a straw hat and dark sunglasses with large white text overlay reading "Phoe".

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
  • 2007-2016
  • 20101023163236249194608

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • straw hat sunglasses text
  • pixelated text cut off
  • light brown beard blue shirt
  • low-resolution pixelated image

Objects

  • straw hat
  • sunglasses
  • text

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • 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
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • Phoe

Wordwall

  • straw hat
  • dark sunglasses
  • light brown beard
  • blue shirt
  • white text
  • black outline
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • light blue background
  • white background
  • text cut off
  • dithering
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 23:12 UTC
Run
61
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
20101023163236249194608
Archive entry
20101023163236249194608.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:07 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#20101023163236249194608.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20101023163236249194608.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016