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Static image of a person with curly brown hair wearing a green and orange striped hat and white shirt against a green background with red text.

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Static image of a person with curly brown hair wearing a green and orange striped hat and white shirt against a green background with red text.

Static image of a person with curly brown hair wearing a green and orange striped hat and white shirt against a green background with red text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon f…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • person on left
  • text on right
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Static image shows a person with curly brown hair, wearing a green and orange striped hat and white shirt. The background is solid green. Three instances of red text appear: 'elf' in lowercase at top right, 'ELF' in uppercase in the middle right, and 'Elf' with capital E and lowercase lf at bottom left. The image has pixelated rendering with visible compression artifacts.

Description

Static image of a person with curly brown hair wearing a green and orange striped hat and white shirt against a green background with red text.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200712010708451751578028
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • elf green background
  • ELF red text
  • Elf curly brown hair
  • green and orange striped hat
  • person white shirt
  • pixelated compression artifacts
  • red text elf
  • green background elf

Visible Text

  • elf

Wordwall

  • green background
  • red text
  • elf
  • curly brown hair
  • green and orange striped hat
  • white shirt
  • pixelated
  • compression artifacts

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200712010708451751578028
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:01 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.1 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 15:01 UTC
Archive ID
9e581a8f73f4deb1
SHA-256
9e581a8f73f4deb1e5f9a2d28833b85708ad3413cba7f5ed17bd38f91f0d6322
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:17 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Static image of a person with curly brown hair wearing a green and orange striped hat and white shirt against a green background with red text.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 12:46 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,154 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 742

Review tags

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  • green (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • green
  • red
  • brown
  • white
  • orange

Composition

  • person on left
  • text on right
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Static image shows a person with curly brown hair, wearing a green and orange striped hat and white shirt. The background is solid green. Three instances of red text appear: 'elf' in lowercase at top right, 'ELF' in uppercase in the middle right, and 'Elf' with capital E and lowercase lf at bottom left. The image has pixelated rendering with visible compression artifacts.

Description

Static image of a person with curly brown hair wearing a green and orange striped hat and white shirt against a green background with red text.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200712010708451751578028
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • ELF red text
  • Elf curly brown hair
  • green and orange striped hat
  • person white shirt
  • pixelated compression artifacts
  • red text elf
  • green background elf

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • elf

Wordwall

  • green background
  • red text
  • elf
  • curly brown hair
  • green and orange striped hat
  • white shirt
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 21:52 UTC
Run
53
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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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
200712010708451751578028
Archive entry
200712010708451751578028.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:01 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#200712010708451751578028.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200712010708451751578028.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016