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Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair in a red shirt on a green background with orange text.

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Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair in a red shirt on a green background with orange text.

Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair in a red shirt on a green background with orange text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Mood

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Source terms

Composition

  • left-side portrait
  • text sections distributed across green background

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated portrait of a person with light brown hair and blue eyes wearing a red shirt, positioned on the left side of a bright green background. Orange pixelated text appears in four sections: top-right reads "Boys are like slinkies....", bottom-left reads "useless but.....", bottom-middle-right reads "fun to watch fall down stairs", and bottom-right contains ":-) (33". The image has a low-resolution, retro digital aesthetic with visible pixelation and blocky text rendering.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair in a red shirt on a green background with orange 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080917125055617363249
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • light brown hair blue eyes red shirt green background
  • Boys are like slinkies useless but fun to watch fall down stairs
  • pixelated portrait orange text green background
  • useless but fun to watch fall down stairs text

Visible Text

  • Boys are like slinkies....
  • useless but.....
  • fun to watch fall down stairs
  • :-) (33

Wordwall

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  • blue eyes
  • red shirt
  • green background
  • orange pixelated text
  • pixelated portrait
  • retro digital aesthetic
  • blocky text
  • bottom-left text
  • bottom-right text
  • top-right text
  • bottom-middle-right text
  • useless but.....
  • Boys are like slinkies....
  • fun to watch fall down stairs
  • :-) (33
  • low-resolution
  • blocky text rendering
  • bright green background
  • pixelated face

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080917125055617363249
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
48×48 pixels
File size
2.7 KB
Motion
Animated (4 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
9721e1f1166b4c10
SHA-256
9721e1f1166b4c1045b03179016fa3498c2b6ac39a2170b568660e9670e70616
Content-safety assessments (3)
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Assessed
August 19, 2026 at 16:08 UTC
Run
1315
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Preprocessing
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Overall score
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Assessed
August 7, 2026 at 02:32 UTC
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July 23, 2026 at 16:32 UTC
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Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair in a red shirt on a green background with orange text.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 00:37 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,676 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,115, response 823

Review tags

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  • green (color, 0.80)
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  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
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  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
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  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • green
  • orange
  • red
  • light brown
  • blue

Composition

  • left-side portrait
  • text sections distributed across green background

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated portrait of a person with light brown hair and blue eyes wearing a red shirt, positioned on the left side of a bright green background. Orange pixelated text appears in four sections: top-right reads "Boys are like slinkies....", bottom-left reads "useless but.....", bottom-middle-right reads "fun to watch fall down stairs", and bottom-right contains ":-) (33". The image has a low-resolution, retro digital aesthetic with visible pixelation and blocky text rendering.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair in a red shirt on a green background with orange 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

Metadata Only Entities

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  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080917125055617363249
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • humorous
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • Boys are like slinkies useless but fun to watch fall down stairs
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  • useless but fun to watch fall down stairs text

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Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

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  • fun to watch fall down stairs
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  • useless but.....
  • Boys are like slinkies....
  • fun to watch fall down stairs
  • :-) (33
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  • bright green background
  • pixelated face
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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
20080917125055617363249
Archive entry
20080917125055617363249.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#20080917125055617363249.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080917125055617363249.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016