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Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair in a red shirt against a blue patterned background, with cyan text on orange and gray

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Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair in a red shirt against a blue patterned background, with cyan text on orange and gray

Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair in a red shirt against a blue patterned background, with cyan text on orange and gray. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Int…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • top-left person
  • top-right text
  • bottom-left text
  • bottom-right solid color

Dense Caption

The image is a four-quadrant composition. Top-left quadrant shows a pixelated person with light brown curly hair, wearing a red shirt, against a blue and white patterned background. Top-right quadrant is solid orange with cyan pixelated text reading "gimme some bots". Bottom-left quadrant is solid orange with cyan pixelated text reading "...gosh". Bottom-right quadrant is solid gray. All text uses a blocky, retro digital font. The image has a low-resolution, 1990s digital art style with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair in a red shirt against a blue patterned background, with cyan text on orange and gray

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

  • gimme some bots cyan text orange background
  • gosh cyan text orange background
  • four quadrant pixel art
  • retro digital text layout

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair in a red shirt against a blue patterned background, with cyan text on orange and gray panels.
  • quarantined wordwall: solid gray panel
  • quarantined wordwall: solid orange panels

Visible Text

  • gimme some bots
  • ...gosh

Wordwall

  • four-quadrant layout
  • light brown curly hair
  • red shirt
  • blue patterned background
  • solid orange
  • solid gray
  • cyan pixelated text
  • retro digital font
  • low-resolution pixelation
  • blocky text characters

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200807231345031056828632
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.8 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a3/a3325169e6c651025be94bbcba3dfe357a03b89befb40facd09bb3722d3f6c51.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 UTC
Archive ID
a3325169e6c65102
SHA-256
a3325169e6c651025be94bbcba3dfe357a03b89befb40facd09bb3722d3f6c51
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
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
0.081890

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair in a red shirt against a blue patterned background, with cyan text on orange and gray

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 13:50 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,887 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 724

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • light brown
  • red
  • blue
  • white
  • orange
  • gray
  • cyan

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • top-left person
  • top-right text
  • bottom-left text
  • bottom-right solid color

Dense Caption

The image is a four-quadrant composition. Top-left quadrant shows a pixelated person with light brown curly hair, wearing a red shirt, against a blue and white patterned background. Top-right quadrant is solid orange with cyan pixelated text reading "gimme some bots". Bottom-left quadrant is solid orange with cyan pixelated text reading "...gosh". Bottom-right quadrant is solid gray. All text uses a blocky, retro digital font. The image has a low-resolution, 1990s digital art style with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair in a red shirt against a blue patterned background, with cyan text on orange and gray

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

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • gimme some bots cyan text orange background
  • gosh cyan text orange background
  • four quadrant pixel art
  • retro digital text layout

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair in a red shirt against a blue patterned background, with cyan text on orange and gray panels.
  • quarantined wordwall: solid gray panel
  • quarantined wordwall: solid orange panels

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • blocky text

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • gimme some bots
  • ...gosh

Wordwall

  • four-quadrant layout
  • light brown curly hair
  • red shirt
  • blue patterned background
  • solid orange
  • solid gray
  • cyan pixelated text
  • retro digital font
  • low-resolution pixelation
  • blocky text characters
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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
200807231345031056828632
Archive entry
200807231345031056828632.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 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#200807231345031056828632.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200807231345031056828632.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016