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Pixelated image of a person with light hair in a white shirt, next to red background with black text reading "I Love James".

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Pixelated image of a person with light hair in a white shirt, next to red background with black text reading "I Love James".

Pixelated image of a person with light hair in a white shirt, next to red background with black text reading "I Love James". Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archiv…

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Animation Summary

  • No animation observed; static image with split composition of person and text.

Composition

  • split vertical
  • left person
  • right text

Dense Caption

The image is split vertically. Left side shows a pixelated person with light brown hair, wearing a white shirt with orange sleeves, positioned against a blurred green and brown background. Right side has a solid red background with black pixelated text: "I" on top line, "Love" on middle line, "James" on bottom line. The text is in a blocky, retro digital font. The image has low resolution and visible pixelation throughout. No animation is present in this static frame.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with light hair in a white shirt, next to red background with black text reading "I Love James".

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200708251212031284790016
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person light brown hair white shirt orange sleeves
  • red background black text I Love James
  • pixelated retro digital text
  • split vertical composition person text

Visible Text

  • I
  • Love
  • James

Wordwall

  • light brown hair
  • white shirt with orange sleeves
  • green and brown background
  • solid red background
  • black pixelated text
  • blocky digital font
  • low resolution
  • pixelation

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708251212031284790016
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8c/8c9fc6c74f38510cc859f398a433a3b9e006e18bff0582a985ae27c96af85c1a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC
Archive ID
8c9fc6c74f38510c
SHA-256
8c9fc6c74f38510cc859f398a433a3b9e006e18bff0582a985ae27c96af85c1a
Content-safety assessments (1)
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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
0.090973

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated image of a person with light hair in a white shirt, next to red background with black text reading "I Love James".

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 05:09 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,014 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,147, response 715

Review tags

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  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
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  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No animation observed; static image with split composition of person and text.

Colors

  • red
  • black
  • white
  • orange
  • light brown
  • green
  • brown

Composition

  • split vertical
  • left person
  • right text

Dense Caption

The image is split vertically. Left side shows a pixelated person with light brown hair, wearing a white shirt with orange sleeves, positioned against a blurred green and brown background. Right side has a solid red background with black pixelated text: "I" on top line, "Love" on middle line, "James" on bottom line. The text is in a blocky, retro digital font. The image has low resolution and visible pixelation throughout. No animation is present in this static frame.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with light hair in a white shirt, next to red background with black text reading "I Love James".

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200708251212031284790016
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person light brown hair white shirt orange sleeves
  • red background black text I Love James
  • pixelated retro digital text
  • split vertical composition person text

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • I
  • Love
  • James

Wordwall

  • light brown hair
  • white shirt with orange sleeves
  • green and brown background
  • solid red background
  • black pixelated text
  • blocky digital font
  • low resolution
  • pixelation
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 13:03 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
200708251212031284790016
Archive entry
200708251212031284790016.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 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#200708251212031284790016.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708251212031284790016.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016