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A pixelated image of a person with short brown hair and a white shirt, set against a bright green background with repeated text.

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A pixelated image of a person with short brown hair and a white shirt, set against a bright green background with repeated text.

A pixelated image of a person with short brown hair and a white shirt, set against a bright green background with repeated text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Ar…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • portrait on left
  • text on right
  • vertical text arrangement

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated portrait of a person with short brown hair and a white shirt. The background is solid bright green. On the right side, the word 'cute' appears in black pixelated text, repeated six times vertically. Below this, the word 'cutieeee' appears in the same style. On the left side, the word 'cute' appears five times vertically in the same black pixelated text style. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance.

Description

  • A pixelated image of a person with short brown hair and a white shirt, set against a bright green background with repeated text.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200708231047071827280796

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cute cutieeee green background
  • pixelated person white shirt
  • bright green text cute
  • cute repeated cutieeee
  • person brown hair white shirt
  • green background cute text
  • pixelated portrait cute
  • cutieeee text bright green

Preprocessing Notes

  • no preprocessing detected

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 topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • cute
  • cutieeee

Wordwall

  • pixelated portrait
  • short brown hair
  • white shirt
  • bright green background
  • cute text repeated
  • cutieeee text
  • black pixelated font
  • low-resolution digital

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708231047071827280796
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ab/abb0b177b341d67e6e5f6651259f891e6d2415dfcca36acee41765220c97928e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 UTC
Archive ID
abb0b177b341d67e
SHA-256
abb0b177b341d67e6e5f6651259f891e6d2415dfcca36acee41765220c97928e
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:24 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.088256

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A pixelated image of a person with short brown hair and a white shirt, set against a bright green background with repeated text.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 04:17 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,524 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 852

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • bright green (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • bright green
  • black
  • white
  • brown

Composition

  • portrait on left
  • text on right
  • vertical text arrangement

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated portrait of a person with short brown hair and a white shirt. The background is solid bright green. On the right side, the word 'cute' appears in black pixelated text, repeated six times vertically. Below this, the word 'cutieeee' appears in the same style. On the left side, the word 'cute' appears five times vertically in the same black pixelated text style. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance.

Description

  • A pixelated image of a person with short brown hair and a white shirt, set against a bright green background with repeated text.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200708231047071827280796

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • pixelated person white shirt
  • bright green text cute
  • cute repeated cutieeee
  • person brown hair white shirt
  • green background cute text
  • pixelated portrait cute
  • cutieeee text bright green

Preprocessing Notes

  • no preprocessing detected

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
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  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

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  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

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Visible Text

  • cute
  • cutieeee

Wordwall

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  • short brown hair
  • white shirt
  • bright green background
  • cute text repeated
  • cutieeee text
  • black pixelated font
  • low-resolution digital
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 12:45 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
200708231047071827280796
Archive entry
200708231047071827280796.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#200708231047071827280796.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708231047071827280796.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016