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Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and light skin, wearing a dark shirt, with overlaid text reading 'stephen <3' in white block letters.

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Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and light skin, wearing a dark shirt, with overlaid text reading 'stephen <3' in white block letters.

Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and light skin, wearing a dark shirt, with overlaid text reading 'stephen <3' in white block letters. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Inte…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered face
  • text overlay
  • horizontal text
  • blurred background

Dense Caption

Pixelated static image of a person with dark hair and light skin, wearing a dark shirt. The person's face is centered in the frame with a neutral expression. White block letters spelling 'stephen' are overlaid across the top of the image, followed by a white heart symbol '<3'. The background is a blurred brownish texture. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated rendering style typical of early 2000s digital graphics. The text is positioned horizontally across the upper portion of the image, overlapping the person's hair. The heart symbol is positioned immediately after the word 'stephen'.

Description

Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and light skin, wearing a dark shirt, with overlaid text reading 'stephen <3' in white block letters.

Identity Hypotheses

  • stephen
  • celebrity

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Named Entities

  • stephen

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • stephen <3
  • pixelated person
  • white text <3
  • dark hair <3
  • buddy icon stephen
  • text overlay stephen
  • heart symbol stephen
  • low-resolution stephen

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be upscaled or enlarged from a smaller original

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • 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

Visible Text

  • stephen
  • <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • stephen

Wordwall

  • person
  • dark hair
  • light skin
  • dark shirt
  • neutral expression
  • white text
  • stephen
  • <3
  • brown background
  • pixelated
  • static
  • centered face
  • heart symbol
  • block letters
  • blurred background
  • low-resolution
  • text overlay
  • horizontal text
  • overlapping text
  • digital graphics

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070726212107538289806
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:34 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.1 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/9e/9eab6fe76571351633b840a545cd27a8e10b95b20e5d3d41f103562ad8bd5b8d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:34 UTC
Archive ID
9eab6fe765713516
SHA-256
9eab6fe76571351633b840a545cd27a8e10b95b20e5d3d41f103562ad8bd5b8d
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:17 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.080602

OpenAI category scores

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

Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and light skin, wearing a dark shirt, with overlaid text reading 'stephen <3' in white block letters.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 15:01 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,752 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,093, response 845

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  • pink (color, 0.80)
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  • digital graphics (style, 0.80)
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  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • dark brown
  • light brown
  • white
  • dark gray
  • light gray
  • pink

Composition

  • centered face
  • text overlay
  • horizontal text
  • blurred background

Dense Caption

Pixelated static image of a person with dark hair and light skin, wearing a dark shirt. The person's face is centered in the frame with a neutral expression. White block letters spelling 'stephen' are overlaid across the top of the image, followed by a white heart symbol '<3'. The background is a blurred brownish texture. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated rendering style typical of early 2000s digital graphics. The text is positioned horizontally across the upper portion of the image, overlapping the person's hair. The heart symbol is positioned immediately after the word 'stephen'.

Description

Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and light skin, wearing a dark shirt, with overlaid text reading 'stephen <3' in white block letters.

Identity Hypotheses

  • stephen
  • celebrity

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Mood

  • neutral

Named Entities

  • stephen

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • stephen <3
  • pixelated person
  • white text <3
  • dark hair <3
  • buddy icon stephen
  • text overlay stephen
  • heart symbol stephen
  • low-resolution stephen

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be upscaled or enlarged from a smaller original

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • 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

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  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • digital graphics

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • stephen
  • <3

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  • stephen

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  • light skin
  • dark shirt
  • neutral expression
  • white text
  • stephen
  • <3
  • brown background
  • pixelated
  • static
  • centered face
  • heart symbol
  • block letters
  • blurred background
  • low-resolution
  • text overlay
  • horizontal text
  • overlapping text
  • digital graphics
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 09:25 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
20070726212107538289806
Archive entry
20070726212107538289806.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:34 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#20070726212107538289806.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070726212107538289806.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016