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Pixelated image of a smiling person with curly brown hair wearing a green and orange striped hat, next to cyan background with purple text.

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Pixelated image of a smiling person with curly brown hair wearing a green and orange striped hat, next to cyan background with purple text.

Pixelated image of a smiling person with curly brown hair wearing a green and orange striped hat, next to cyan background with purple text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split vertical composition
  • left portrait
  • right text block

Dense Caption

Left side shows pixelated portrait of person with light skin tone, curly brown hair, and wide smile revealing teeth; wearing white shirt and green-orange striped knit hat. Right side has solid cyan background with three lines of purple pixelated text: 'merry', 'x-mas', 'mike'. Image uses low-resolution 8-bit style rendering with visible dithering on skin tones and clothing.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a smiling person with curly brown hair wearing a green and orange striped hat, next to cyan background with purple text.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20071208165808900099854
  • FranksIcons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • merry x-mas mike pixelated portrait
  • cyan background purple text hat smiling person
  • low-resolution 8-bit holiday icon
  • green orange striped hat white shirt

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected in single frame provided

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Visible Text

  • merry
  • x-mas
  • mike

Visually Supported Entities

  • mike (text)
  • x-mas (text)

Wordwall

  • pixelated portrait
  • curly brown hair
  • green-orange striped hat
  • white shirt
  • cyan background
  • purple text
  • merry x-mas mike
  • low-resolution 8-bit
  • wide smile
  • visible dithering

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071208165808900099854
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:03 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a5/a58de6272a1804fd32906c1ea8bf282f16b532b93ffd81aa8fede622eef7b23b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:03 UTC
Archive ID
a58de6272a1804fd
SHA-256
a58de6272a1804fd32906c1ea8bf282f16b532b93ffd81aa8fede622eef7b23b
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:21 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.150035

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image of a smiling person with curly brown hair wearing a green and orange striped hat, next to cyan background with purple text.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 00:26 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,027 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,140, response 721

Review tags

  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • hat (object, 0.80)
  • shirt (object, 0.80)
  • dithered rendering (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling

Colors

  • cyan
  • purple
  • green
  • orange
  • brown
  • white
  • light skin tone

Composition

  • split vertical composition
  • left portrait
  • right text block

Dense Caption

Left side shows pixelated portrait of person with light skin tone, curly brown hair, and wide smile revealing teeth; wearing white shirt and green-orange striped knit hat. Right side has solid cyan background with three lines of purple pixelated text: 'merry', 'x-mas', 'mike'. Image uses low-resolution 8-bit style rendering with visible dithering on skin tones and clothing.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a smiling person with curly brown hair wearing a green and orange striped hat, next to cyan background with purple text.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20071208165808900099854
  • FranksIcons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Mood

  • cheerful
  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • merry x-mas mike pixelated portrait
  • cyan background purple text hat smiling person
  • low-resolution 8-bit holiday icon
  • green orange striped hat white shirt

Objects

  • hat
  • shirt

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected in single frame provided

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution 8-bit
  • dithered rendering

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • merry
  • x-mas
  • mike

Visually Supported Entities

  • mike (text)
  • x-mas (text)

Wordwall

  • pixelated portrait
  • curly brown hair
  • green-orange striped hat
  • white shirt
  • cyan background
  • purple text
  • merry x-mas mike
  • low-resolution 8-bit
  • wide smile
  • visible dithering
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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
20071208165808900099854
Archive entry
20071208165808900099854.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:03 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#20071208165808900099854.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071208165808900099854.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016