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Pixelated text reads 'holla at ya boy' in purple letters on black blocks, next to a person in a purple hoodie making hand gestures.

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Pixelated text reads 'holla at ya boy' in purple letters on black blocks, next to a person in a purple hoodie making hand gestures.

Pixelated text reads 'holla at ya boy' in purple letters on black blocks, next to a person in a purple hoodie making hand gestures. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text blocks on left
  • person on right
  • solid white background

Dense Caption

Left side shows four black rectangular blocks with purple pixelated text: 'holla' top-left, 'at' top-right, 'ya' bottom-left, 'boy' bottom-right. Right side shows a person with light brown hair wearing a purple hooded jacket over a gray shirt, making two hand gestures with fingers extended. Background is solid white. Text is lowercase with no punctuation. Pixelation is visible across all elements.

Description

  • Pixelated text reads 'holla at ya boy' in purple letters on black blocks, next to a person in a purple hoodie making hand gestures.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080920082138936160137

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • holla at ya boy purple hoodie
  • pixelated text hand gestures
  • purple hoodie gray shirt
  • holla at ya boy text blocks

Visible Text

  • holla
  • at
  • ya
  • boy

Wordwall

  • holla at ya boy
  • purple hoodie
  • hand gestures
  • pixelated text
  • black blocks
  • light brown hair
  • gray shirt
  • white background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080920082138936160137
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC
Archive ID
8f226632ea1e3566
SHA-256
8f226632ea1e35662cdbaf0577507ab6be232b4d95a8a413ca40a80625d1e781
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Assessed
August 12, 2026 at 07:31 UTC
Run
1284
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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July 23, 2026 at 17:44 UTC
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Pixelated text reads 'holla at ya boy' in purple letters on black blocks, next to a person in a purple hoodie making hand gestures.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 00:54 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,100 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,144, response 681

Review tags

  • making hand gestures (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • gray shirt (object, 0.80)
  • purple hoodie (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • making hand gestures

Colors

  • purple
  • black
  • gray
  • white
  • light brown

Composition

  • text blocks on left
  • person on right
  • solid white background

Dense Caption

Left side shows four black rectangular blocks with purple pixelated text: 'holla' top-left, 'at' top-right, 'ya' bottom-left, 'boy' bottom-right. Right side shows a person with light brown hair wearing a purple hooded jacket over a gray shirt, making two hand gestures with fingers extended. Background is solid white. Text is lowercase with no punctuation. Pixelation is visible across all elements.

Description

  • Pixelated text reads 'holla at ya boy' in purple letters on black blocks, next to a person in a purple hoodie making hand gestures.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080920082138936160137

Mood

  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • pixelated text hand gestures
  • purple hoodie gray shirt
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Objects

  • purple hoodie
  • gray shirt

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • holla
  • at
  • ya
  • boy

Wordwall

  • holla at ya boy
  • purple hoodie
  • hand gestures
  • pixelated text
  • black blocks
  • light brown hair
  • gray shirt
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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
20080920082138936160137
Archive entry
20080920082138936160137.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 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#20080920082138936160137.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080920082138936160137.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016