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Pixelated image of a person with curly blonde hair and pink lips on a dark background, next to bright green and gray sections with red text and symbols.

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Pixelated image of a person with curly blonde hair and pink lips on a dark background, next to bright green and gray sections with red text and symbols.

Pixelated image of a person with curly blonde hair and pink lips on a dark background, next to bright green and gray sections with red text and symbols. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM bud…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation Summary

  • no animation observed

Composition

  • top-left person
  • top-right text
  • bottom-left symbol
  • bottom-right solid color

Dense Caption

The image is divided into four quadrants. Top-left quadrant shows a pixelated person with curly blonde hair, light skin, and pink lips against a dark background. Top-right quadrant is solid bright green with red pixelated text 'candymon!!!'. Bottom-left quadrant is solid bright green with red pixelated '<3' symbol. Bottom-right quadrant is solid gray. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance with distinct color blocks and pixelated text/symbols. No visible motion or animation changes are present in this static image.

Description

Pixelated image of a person with curly blonde hair and pink lips on a dark background, next to bright green and gray sections with red text and symbols.

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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • 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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • candymon!!! <3 symbol
  • pixelated person curly blonde hair
  • bright green red gray quadrants
  • retro digital four quadrant image
  • candymon!!! <3 green gray

Objects

  • <3 symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation observed in static image

Visible Text

  • candymon!!!
  • <3

Wordwall

  • curly blonde hair
  • pink lips
  • dark background
  • bright green
  • red text
  • <3 symbol
  • gray section
  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • four quadrants

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20100221175750425271780
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:05 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/90/905ad4aef27531becbfdd45e0fae53bb903650f67bfb06937f9c07c0477411a6.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:05 UTC
Archive ID
905ad4aef27531be
SHA-256
905ad4aef27531becbfdd45e0fae53bb903650f67bfb06937f9c07c0477411a6
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 30, 2026 at 10:37 UTC
Run
15966
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000859

OpenAI category scores

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 7, 2026 at 19:47 UTC
Run
1272
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:08 UTC
Run
1133
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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

Pixelated image of a person with curly blonde hair and pink lips on a dark background, next to bright green and gray sections with red text and symbols.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 17:23 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,703 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 770

Review tags

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  • dark (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light skin (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • 3 symbol (object, 0.80)
  • four quadrant layout (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • person with curly blonde hair (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • no animation observed

Colors

  • dark
  • bright green
  • red
  • gray
  • light skin
  • pink

Composition

  • top-left person
  • top-right text
  • bottom-left symbol
  • bottom-right solid color

Dense Caption

The image is divided into four quadrants. Top-left quadrant shows a pixelated person with curly blonde hair, light skin, and pink lips against a dark background. Top-right quadrant is solid bright green with red pixelated text 'candymon!!!'. Bottom-left quadrant is solid bright green with red pixelated '<3' symbol. Bottom-right quadrant is solid gray. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance with distinct color blocks and pixelated text/symbols. No visible motion or animation changes are present in this static image.

Description

Pixelated image of a person with curly blonde hair and pink lips on a dark background, next to bright green and gray sections with red text and symbols.

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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • 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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • candymon!!! <3 symbol
  • pixelated person curly blonde hair
  • bright green red gray quadrants
  • retro digital four quadrant image
  • candymon!!! <3 green gray

Objects

  • <3 symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation observed in static image

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • four-quadrant layout

Subjects

  • person with curly blonde hair

Visible Text

  • candymon!!!
  • <3

Wordwall

  • curly blonde hair
  • pink lips
  • dark background
  • bright green
  • red text
  • <3 symbol
  • gray section
  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • four quadrants
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 22:14 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)
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
20100221175750425271780
Archive entry
20100221175750425271780.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:05 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#20100221175750425271780.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20100221175750425271780.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016