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Pixelated image of a person with curly light brown hair wearing a white shirt with black collar, next to red background with yellow text.

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Pixelated image of a person with curly light brown hair wearing a white shirt with black collar, next to red background with yellow text.

Pixelated image of a person with curly light brown hair wearing a white shirt with black collar, next to red background with yellow text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from In…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split composition
  • left person
  • right text

Dense Caption

Pixelated image shows a person with curly light brown hair and fair skin wearing a white shirt with black collar. Left side background includes blurred bookshelves with books. Right side is solid red background with yellow pixelated text reading "kyle is not my best friend". Text is vertically centered. Image has low-resolution, blocky rendering typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with curly light brown hair wearing a white shirt with black collar, next to red background with yellow 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200811150814342026368169

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • kyle is not my best friend
  • person curly hair white shirt
  • red background yellow text
  • bookshelves pixelated image

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be a static image despite untrustedSourceHintsJson indicating 'animated'

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

Visible Text

  • kyle is not my best friend

Wordwall

  • person with curly light brown hair
  • white shirt with black collar
  • blurred bookshelves
  • solid red background
  • yellow pixelated text
  • kyle is not my best friend
  • low-resolution blocky rendering
  • vertical text alignment

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200811150814342026368169
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a2/a2a95c1e51fab630afc9bfe0043155684009505910e46c353a448a1940e6636c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC
Archive ID
a2a95c1e51fab630
SHA-256
a2a95c1e51fab630afc9bfe0043155684009505910e46c353a448a1940e6636c
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:19 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.088372

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image of a person with curly light brown hair wearing a white shirt with black collar, next to red background with yellow text.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 08:52 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,773 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,147, response 802

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • fair skin (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • bookshelves (object, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • yellow
  • white
  • black
  • light brown
  • fair skin

Composition

  • split composition
  • left person
  • right text

Dense Caption

Pixelated image shows a person with curly light brown hair and fair skin wearing a white shirt with black collar. Left side background includes blurred bookshelves with books. Right side is solid red background with yellow pixelated text reading "kyle is not my best friend". Text is vertically centered. Image has low-resolution, blocky rendering typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with curly light brown hair wearing a white shirt with black collar, next to red background with yellow 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200811150814342026368169

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • kyle is not my best friend
  • person curly hair white shirt
  • red background yellow text
  • bookshelves pixelated image

Objects

  • bookshelves

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be a static image despite untrustedSourceHintsJson indicating 'animated'

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
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  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • kyle is not my best friend

Wordwall

  • person with curly light brown hair
  • white shirt with black collar
  • blurred bookshelves
  • solid red background
  • yellow pixelated text
  • kyle is not my best friend
  • low-resolution blocky rendering
  • vertical text alignment
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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
200811150814342026368169
Archive entry
200811150814342026368169.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 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#200811150814342026368169.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200811150814342026368169.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016