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A static image of a person with a smiling expression, wearing a cap, with yellow text above the head reading 'Elliott Smith 1969-2003'.

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A static image of a person with a smiling expression, wearing a cap, with yellow text above the head reading 'Elliott Smith 1969-2003'.

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • face focus
  • text above head
  • dark background

Dense Caption

The image shows a person with a smiling expression, wearing a cap, and a dark shirt. The person's face is the central focus, with visible eyes, nose, mouth, and chin. Above the head, there is yellow text that reads 'Elliott Smith 1969-2003'. The background is dark, and the image has a pixelated, low-resolution appearance. The person's hair is partially visible on the sides of the head. The image is static with no visible motion.

Description

  • A static image of a person with a smiling expression, wearing a cap, with yellow text above the head reading 'Elliott Smith 1969-2003'.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Elliott Smith

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

Named Entities

  • Elliott Smith

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Elliott Smith 1969-2003
  • smiling person cap
  • yellow text dark background
  • pixelated face

Visible Text

  • Elliott Smith 1969-2003

Visually Supported Entities

  • Elliott Smith

Wordwall

  • smiling expression
  • cap
  • dark shirt
  • yellow text
  • Elliott Smith 1969-2003
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • dark background
  • face focus
  • hair visible

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708212053431930639443
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.6 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a9/a9b354d054369a7fa3f7e2cc11bba5f5cf81b18a74ec4f42c15a164654046f3c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 UTC
Archive ID
a9b354d054369a7f
SHA-256
a9b354d054369a7fa3f7e2cc11bba5f5cf81b18a74ec4f42c15a164654046f3c
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:11 UTC
Run
1033
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A static image of a person with a smiling expression, wearing a cap, with yellow text above the head reading 'Elliott Smith 1969-2003'.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 03:42 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,203 ms
Tokens
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Review tags

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  • yellow (color, 0.80)
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Colors

  • yellow
  • dark
  • light

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  • face focus
  • text above head
  • dark background

Dense Caption

The image shows a person with a smiling expression, wearing a cap, and a dark shirt. The person's face is the central focus, with visible eyes, nose, mouth, and chin. Above the head, there is yellow text that reads 'Elliott Smith 1969-2003'. The background is dark, and the image has a pixelated, low-resolution appearance. The person's hair is partially visible on the sides of the head. The image is static with no visible motion.

Description

  • A static image of a person with a smiling expression, wearing a cap, with yellow text above the head reading 'Elliott Smith 1969-2003'.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Elliott Smith

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

  • happy

Named Entities

  • Elliott Smith

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Elliott Smith 1969-2003
  • smiling person cap
  • yellow text dark background
  • pixelated face

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • Elliott Smith 1969-2003

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  • Elliott Smith

Wordwall

  • smiling expression
  • cap
  • dark shirt
  • yellow text
  • Elliott Smith 1969-2003
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • dark background
  • face focus
  • hair visible
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 12:36 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
200708212053431930639443
Archive entry
200708212053431930639443.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 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#200708212053431930639443.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708212053431930639443.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016