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A pixelated image of a person in a suit with a blue background containing text elements.

A pixelated image of a person in a suit with a blue background containing text elements. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, L…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • portrait on left
  • text blocks on right
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The image features a pixelated portrait of a person with dark hair wearing a gray suit jacket and white shirt. The background is solid blue. Text elements include "IT'S LINK!!!!!!!!" in cyan at the top right, "not Troy!!!!! :-D" in cyan at the bottom left, and "www.edsite2527.picocom" in cyan at the bottom right. The text uses a pixelated font style. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance.

Description

  • A pixelated image of a person in a suit with a blue background containing text elements.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Troy not link
  • www.edsite2527.picocom
  • IT'S LINK
  • not Troy
  • Troy link
  • www.edsite2527
  • picocom
  • Troy not

Visible Text

  • IT'S LINK!!!!!!!!
  • not Troy!!!!! :-D
  • www.edsite2527.picocom

Wordwall

  • pixelated portrait
  • gray suit jacket
  • white shirt
  • solid blue background
  • cyan text
  • IT'S LINK!!!!!!!!
  • not Troy!!!!! :-D
  • www.edsite2527.picocom
  • pixelated font
  • retro digital appearance

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070825151833885532256
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/9a/9af42e308db55be8fad8c3b329d8787bf6d8f3333be6d7234f0780ebc6a7de2b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC
Archive ID
9af42e308db55be8
SHA-256
9af42e308db55be8fad8c3b329d8787bf6d8f3333be6d7234f0780ebc6a7de2b
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:15 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.123356

OpenAI category scores

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

A pixelated image of a person in a suit with a blue background containing text elements.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 05:14 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,803 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 702

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • cyan
  • gray
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • portrait on left
  • text blocks on right
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The image features a pixelated portrait of a person with dark hair wearing a gray suit jacket and white shirt. The background is solid blue. Text elements include "IT'S LINK!!!!!!!!" in cyan at the top right, "not Troy!!!!! :-D" in cyan at the bottom left, and "www.edsite2527.picocom" in cyan at the bottom right. The text uses a pixelated font style. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance.

Description

  • A pixelated image of a person in a suit with a blue background containing text elements.

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

Mood

  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Troy not link
  • www.edsite2527.picocom
  • IT'S LINK
  • not Troy
  • Troy link
  • www.edsite2527
  • picocom
  • Troy not

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • IT'S LINK!!!!!!!!
  • not Troy!!!!! :-D
  • www.edsite2527.picocom

Wordwall

  • pixelated portrait
  • gray suit jacket
  • white shirt
  • solid blue background
  • cyan text
  • IT'S LINK!!!!!!!!
  • not Troy!!!!! :-D
  • www.edsite2527.picocom
  • pixelated font
  • retro digital appearance
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 13:04 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)
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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
20070825151833885532256
Archive entry
20070825151833885532256.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#20070825151833885532256.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070825151833885532256.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016