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Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and light skin, next to black background with white text reading 'Yea Boys!* Kate!' in pixel font.

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Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and light skin, next to black background with white text reading 'Yea Boys!* Kate!' in pixel font.

Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and light skin, next to black background with white text reading 'Yea Boys!* Kate!' in pixel font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon fro…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split composition: left person, right text

Dense Caption

Left side shows partial head and shoulder of person with short brown curly hair, light skin tone, wearing white shirt; right side has solid black background with two lines of white pixelated text: first line reads 'Yea Boys!*' (asterisk after 'Boys'), second line reads 'Kate!'; image uses low-resolution pixel art style typical of early 2000s digital graphics.

Description

Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and light skin, next to black background with white text reading 'Yea Boys!* Kate!' in pixel font.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • celebrities
  • buddy-icons
  • humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown curly hair person white shirt black background pixel text Yea Boys Kate
  • Yea Boys asterisk Kate pixel art image

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation observed; static image despite 'animated' source hint

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • Yea Boys!*
  • Kate!

Visually Supported Entities

  • person with brown curly hair

Wordwall

  • brown curly hair
  • light skin tone
  • white shirt
  • black background
  • pixelated text
  • Yea Boys!*
  • Kate!
  • asterisk punctuation
  • two-line text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070907180803216310249
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ab/ab016728e2b95f96016fb205354a69e829dc1c985eff992e903dd2d9fae9a16d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 UTC
Archive ID
ab016728e2b95f96
SHA-256
ab016728e2b95f96016fb205354a69e829dc1c985eff992e903dd2d9fae9a16d
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:24 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.078092

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and light skin, next to black background with white text reading 'Yea Boys!* Kate!' in pixel font.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 00:07 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,708 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,143, response 635

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • light skin tone (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution digital graphics (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • person with brown curly hair (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • brown
  • light skin tone
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • split composition: left person, right text

Dense Caption

Left side shows partial head and shoulder of person with short brown curly hair, light skin tone, wearing white shirt; right side has solid black background with two lines of white pixelated text: first line reads 'Yea Boys!*' (asterisk after 'Boys'), second line reads 'Kate!'; image uses low-resolution pixel art style typical of early 2000s digital graphics.

Description

Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and light skin, next to black background with white text reading 'Yea Boys!* Kate!' in pixel font.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • celebrities
  • buddy-icons
  • humor

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown curly hair person white shirt black background pixel text Yea Boys Kate
  • Yea Boys asterisk Kate pixel art image

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation observed; static image despite 'animated' source hint

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution digital graphics

Subjects

  • person with brown curly hair

Visible Text

  • Yea Boys!*
  • Kate!

Visually Supported Entities

  • person with brown curly hair

Wordwall

  • brown curly hair
  • light skin tone
  • white shirt
  • black background
  • pixelated text
  • Yea Boys!*
  • Kate!
  • asterisk punctuation
  • two-line text
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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
20070907180803216310249
Archive entry
20070907180803216310249.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 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#20070907180803216310249.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070907180803216310249.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016