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A pixelated image of a person with brown hair and a white shirt against a teal background, with pink text reading 'the' at the top left and 'hottie' at the top right.

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A pixelated image of a person with brown hair and a white shirt against a teal background, with pink text reading 'the' at the top left and 'hottie' at the top right.

A pixelated image of a person with brown hair and a white shirt against a teal background, with pink text reading 'the' at the top left and 'hottie' at the top right. Animated 48×…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • text changes from 'the' to 'hottie' to 'mchotbot'

Animation Summary

  • The text changes from 'the' to 'hottie' to 'mchotbot' across the image sections.

Composition

  • teal background
  • white shirt
  • brown hair
  • pink text
  • gray section

Dense Caption

The image is a pixelated portrait of a person with brown, shoulder-length hair and a white collared shirt against a solid teal background. The top-left section displays the word 'the' in bright pink, pixelated text. The top-right section displays the word 'hottie' in the same bright pink, pixelated text. The bottom-left section displays the word 'mchotbot' in the same bright pink, pixelated text. The right side of the bottom section is a solid gray color. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance with visible pixelation.

Description

A pixelated image of a person with brown hair and a white shirt against a teal background, with pink text reading 'the' at the top left and 'hottie' at the top 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown hair white shirt teal background
  • pink text mchotbot
  • pixelated text the hottie
  • gray section teal background

Visible Text

  • the
  • hottie
  • mchotbot

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • white shirt
  • teal background
  • pink text
  • pixelated
  • mchotbot
  • hottie
  • the
  • gray section

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070812145610566753802
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.9 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8c/8c4ff90c92fe9c775faeb79587236f4a62fc6d0596d21731438e2c6404b8c90d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 UTC
Archive ID
8c4ff90c92fe9c77
SHA-256
8c4ff90c92fe9c775faeb79587236f4a62fc6d0596d21731438e2c6404b8c90d
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:42 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.105435

OpenAI category scores

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

A pixelated image of a person with brown hair and a white shirt against a teal background, with pink text reading 'the' at the top left and 'hottie' at the top right.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 22:37 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,647 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 739

Review tags

  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • teal (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • text changes from the to hottie to mchotbot (other, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • text changes from 'the' to 'hottie' to 'mchotbot'

Animation Summary

  • The text changes from 'the' to 'hottie' to 'mchotbot' across the image sections.

Colors

  • teal
  • white
  • brown
  • pink
  • gray

Composition

  • teal background
  • white shirt
  • brown hair
  • pink text
  • gray section

Dense Caption

The image is a pixelated portrait of a person with brown, shoulder-length hair and a white collared shirt against a solid teal background. The top-left section displays the word 'the' in bright pink, pixelated text. The top-right section displays the word 'hottie' in the same bright pink, pixelated text. The bottom-left section displays the word 'mchotbot' in the same bright pink, pixelated text. The right side of the bottom section is a solid gray color. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance with visible pixelation.

Description

A pixelated image of a person with brown hair and a white shirt against a teal background, with pink text reading 'the' at the top left and 'hottie' at the top 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown hair white shirt teal background
  • pink text mchotbot
  • pixelated text the hottie
  • gray section teal background

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • the
  • hottie
  • mchotbot

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • white shirt
  • teal background
  • pink text
  • pixelated
  • mchotbot
  • hottie
  • the
  • gray section
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 11:22 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)
Raw JSON
Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
20070812145610566753802
Archive entry
20070812145610566753802.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 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#20070812145610566753802.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070812145610566753802.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016