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Pixelated image of a person with light skin and brown hair wearing a dark shirt, with a purple speech bubble containing pink text.

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Pixelated image of a person with light skin and brown hair wearing a dark shirt, with a purple speech bubble containing pink text.

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • speech bubble overlay

Dense Caption

The image is a pixelated close-up of a person with light skin tone and brown hair, wearing a dark-colored shirt. A large purple speech bubble with pink text overlays the left side of the image. The text in the speech bubble is partially visible and appears to read "ONLINE HE" on the top line and "ME" on the middle line, with additional partial text below. The background is indistinct due to pixelation. The person's facial features include visible eyes, nose, and mouth. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with light skin and brown hair wearing a dark shirt, with a purple speech bubble containing pink text.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person purple speech bubble pink text
  • pixelated close-up speech bubble
  • light skin brown hair dark shirt
  • ONLINE HE ME text

Objects

  • speech bubble

Uncertain Text

  • NUSI

Visible Text

  • ONLINE HE
  • ME

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • light skin
  • brown hair
  • dark shirt
  • purple speech bubble
  • pink text
  • partial text
  • blocky appearance
  • close-up
  • indistinct background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081001143319673533774
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8f/8f28a9befa122f9addf0a0c07ad3f4b87a4e0fe529f516ef2600b008b1ee13fb.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC
Archive ID
8f28a9befa122f9a
SHA-256
8f28a9befa122f9addf0a0c07ad3f4b87a4e0fe529f516ef2600b008b1ee13fb
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:44 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.089415

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image of a person with light skin and brown hair wearing a dark shirt, with a purple speech bubble containing pink text.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 02:31 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,724 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,089, response 680

Review tags

  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark (color, 0.80)
  • light skin (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • speech bubble (object, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • purple
  • pink
  • light skin
  • brown
  • dark

Composition

  • close-up
  • speech bubble overlay

Dense Caption

The image is a pixelated close-up of a person with light skin tone and brown hair, wearing a dark-colored shirt. A large purple speech bubble with pink text overlays the left side of the image. The text in the speech bubble is partially visible and appears to read "ONLINE HE" on the top line and "ME" on the middle line, with additional partial text below. The background is indistinct due to pixelation. The person's facial features include visible eyes, nose, and mouth. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with light skin and brown hair wearing a dark shirt, with a purple speech bubble containing pink text.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person purple speech bubble pink text
  • pixelated close-up speech bubble
  • light skin brown hair dark shirt
  • ONLINE HE ME text

Objects

  • speech bubble

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky

Subjects

  • person

Uncertain Text

  • NUSI

Visible Text

  • ONLINE HE
  • ME

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • light skin
  • brown hair
  • dark shirt
  • purple speech bubble
  • pink text
  • partial text
  • blocky appearance
  • close-up
  • indistinct background
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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
20081001143319673533774
Archive entry
20081001143319673533774.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 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#20081001143319673533774.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081001143319673533774.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016