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Pixelated close-up of a person's face with pink text reading 'my retort' overlaid at the top, set against a dark background.

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Pixelated close-up of a person's face with pink text reading 'my retort' overlaid at the top, set against a dark background.

Pixelated close-up of a person's face with pink text reading 'my retort' overlaid at the top, set against a dark background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksI…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • text overlaid at top

Dense Caption

Pixelated close-up of a person's face showing light skin tone, dark hair, and visible eyes, nose, and mouth. Pink text reading 'my retort' is overlaid at the top of the image. The background is dark and indistinct. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics. No clothing or props are visible. The person's expression appears neutral. The text is rendered in a pixelated font style. The image is static with no visible motion.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person's face with pink text reading 'my retort' overlaid at the top, set against a dark background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200711281654551090911288

Metadata Supported By Image

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated face pink text my retort
  • low resolution neutral expression
  • dark background person
  • my retort pixelated text

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution

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

  • my retort

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  • pixelated face
  • pink text
  • my retort
  • dark background
  • low resolution
  • neutral expression
  • light skin tone
  • dark hair
  • visible eyes
  • visible nose
  • visible mouth

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200711281654551090911288
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:01 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.8 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ae/aeac37716cbb5a7c07f79c913805256a40ece7bd842c593209f0fd9bb6bd3e59.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:01 UTC
Archive ID
aeac37716cbb5a7c
SHA-256
aeac37716cbb5a7c07f79c913805256a40ece7bd842c593209f0fd9bb6bd3e59
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 30, 2026 at 21:19 UTC
Run
15966
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.019458

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
August 8, 2026 at 12:35 UTC
Run
1275
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:26 UTC
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1136
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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

Pixelated close-up of a person's face with pink text reading 'my retort' overlaid at the top, set against a dark background.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 12:09 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,420 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,090, response 789

Review tags

  • dark background (color, 0.80)
  • dark hair (color, 0.80)
  • light skin tone (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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  • static (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • pink
  • light skin tone
  • dark hair
  • dark background

Composition

  • close-up
  • text overlaid at top

Dense Caption

Pixelated close-up of a person's face showing light skin tone, dark hair, and visible eyes, nose, and mouth. Pink text reading 'my retort' is overlaid at the top of the image. The background is dark and indistinct. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics. No clothing or props are visible. The person's expression appears neutral. The text is rendered in a pixelated font style. The image is static with no visible motion.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person's face with pink text reading 'my retort' overlaid at the top, set against a dark background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200711281654551090911288

Metadata Supported By Image

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

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated face pink text my retort
  • low resolution neutral expression
  • dark background person
  • my retort pixelated text

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

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  • static

Subjects

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Visible Text

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
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Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
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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
200711281654551090911288
Archive entry
200711281654551090911288.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:01 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#200711281654551090911288.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200711281654551090911288.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016