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Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair and a neutral expression, overlaid with pink text reading 'awesome' at the top.

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Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair and a neutral expression, overlaid with pink text reading 'awesome' at the top.

Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair and a neutral expression, overlaid with pink text reading 'awesome' at the top. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fr…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text overlay
  • upper face focus
  • cropped

Dense Caption

Pixelated close-up of a person with light brown hair, neutral expression, and visible eyes, nose, and mouth. Pink text 'awesome' spans the top of the image. Background consists of blurred warm tones. Image has low resolution with visible pixelation. No clothing or props are clearly visible. The text is in lowercase letters. The image appears to be cropped to focus on the upper face and hair.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair and a neutral expression, overlaid with pink text reading 'awesome' at the top.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person awesome text
  • pixelated face pink text
  • light brown hair neutral expression
  • low resolution text overlay

Visible Text

  • awesome

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • light brown hair
  • neutral expression
  • pink text
  • awesome
  • low resolution
  • warm background
  • upper face
  • no clothing
  • text overlay

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070818140503304509670
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.8 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a3/a371f29c0ed68a1c01f59fd3c052a916cd7192257e4fb4a392351e28e841d427.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC
Archive ID
a371f29c0ed68a1c
SHA-256
a371f29c0ed68a1c01f59fd3c052a916cd7192257e4fb4a392351e28e841d427
Content-safety assessments (3)
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Assessed
August 26, 2026 at 01:54 UTC
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July 25, 2026 at 19:29 UTC
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July 23, 2026 at 06:38 UTC
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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair and a neutral expression, overlaid with pink text reading 'awesome' at the top.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 01:49 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,152 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,093, response 627

Review tags

  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • warm tones (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • pink
  • light brown
  • warm tones

Composition

  • text overlay
  • upper face focus
  • cropped

Dense Caption

Pixelated close-up of a person with light brown hair, neutral expression, and visible eyes, nose, and mouth. Pink text 'awesome' spans the top of the image. Background consists of blurred warm tones. Image has low resolution with visible pixelation. No clothing or props are clearly visible. The text is in lowercase letters. The image appears to be cropped to focus on the upper face and hair.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair and a neutral expression, overlaid with pink text reading 'awesome' at the top.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person awesome text
  • pixelated face pink text
  • light brown hair neutral expression
  • low resolution text overlay

Style

  • pixelated
  • low resolution

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • awesome

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • light brown hair
  • neutral expression
  • pink text
  • awesome
  • low resolution
  • warm background
  • upper face
  • no clothing
  • text overlay
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 12:05 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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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
20070818140503304509670
Archive entry
20070818140503304509670.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 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#20070818140503304509670.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070818140503304509670.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016