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Pixelated image of a person with brown hair wearing a white shirt, next to blue background with text.

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Pixelated image of a person with brown hair wearing a white shirt, next to blue background with text.

Pixelated image of a person with brown hair wearing a white shirt, next to blue background with text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bu…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • left side: person
  • right side: text on solid background
  • cropped to shoulders

Dense Caption

Pixelated image shows a person with brown hair and light skin wearing a white shirt, cropped to show shoulders and head. The right side features a solid light blue background with black pixelated text reading "thats hott." The image has low-resolution pixelation, typical of early 2000s digital art. No visible motion or animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with brown hair wearing a white shirt, next to blue background with text.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • Justin Bieber

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person brown hair white shirt
  • thats hott pixelated text
  • light blue background pixel art
  • low-resolution buddy icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or pixelated

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

  • thats hott.

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • white shirt
  • light blue background
  • pixelated text
  • thats hott
  • low-resolution
  • cropped to shoulders
  • light skin
  • solid background
  • black text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708181103461933018275
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 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a7/a7897c3a85ac80893523707c200a932dd044e00e072851af4f10a438c1cba2e0.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC
Archive ID
a7897c3a85ac8089
SHA-256
a7897c3a85ac80893523707c200a932dd044e00e072851af4f10a438c1cba2e0
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 13, 2026 at 20:13 UTC
Run
1287
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.099128

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:22 UTC
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1135
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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

Pixelated image of a person with brown hair wearing a white shirt, next to blue background with text.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 01:44 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,108 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,147, response 654

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • digital art (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • brown
  • white
  • light blue
  • black

Composition

  • left side: person
  • right side: text on solid background
  • cropped to shoulders

Dense Caption

Pixelated image shows a person with brown hair and light skin wearing a white shirt, cropped to show shoulders and head. The right side features a solid light blue background with black pixelated text reading "thats hott." The image has low-resolution pixelation, typical of early 2000s digital art. No visible motion or animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with brown hair wearing a white shirt, next to blue background with text.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • Justin Bieber

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person brown hair white shirt
  • thats hott pixelated text
  • light blue background pixel art
  • low-resolution buddy icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or pixelated

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • digital art

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • thats hott.

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • white shirt
  • light blue background
  • pixelated text
  • thats hott
  • low-resolution
  • cropped to shoulders
  • light skin
  • solid background
  • black text
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 12:04 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)
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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
200708181103461933018275
Archive entry
200708181103461933018275.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#200708181103461933018275.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708181103461933018275.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016