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Pixelated close-up of a person's face with closed eyes and a dark top, overlaid with bright pink text reading 'chaby' at the bottom.

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Pixelated close-up of a person's face with closed eyes and a dark top, overlaid with bright pink text reading 'chaby' at the bottom.

Pixelated close-up of a person's face with closed eyes and a dark top, overlaid with bright pink text reading 'chaby' at the bottom. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • face occupies upper frame
  • text spans bottom

Dense Caption

The image is a static, pixelated close-up showing a person's face with closed eyes and a dark-colored top. The face occupies the upper portion of the frame, with visible skin tones and dark hair. Below the face, bright pink text in a pixelated font spells 'chaby' across the bottom. The background is dark, with no additional objects or symbols present. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance typical of early 2000s online avatars.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person's face with closed eyes and a dark top, overlaid with bright pink text reading 'chaby' at the bottom.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20090514160135863726488

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • chaby pixelated face
  • pink text buddy icon
  • closed eyes pixel art
  • low-resolution chaby avatar

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

  • chaby

Wordwall

  • pixelated face
  • closed eyes
  • dark top
  • pink text
  • chaby
  • low-resolution
  • retro digital
  • no background details

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090514160135863726488
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:58 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.8 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/af/afb66c6a04d0c3c0151446c7103a5403b0cb996106d0a33686e031449b34622d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:58 UTC
Archive ID
afb66c6a04d0c3c0
SHA-256
afb66c6a04d0c3c0151446c7103a5403b0cb996106d0a33686e031449b34622d
Content-safety assessments (3)
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Assessed
August 19, 2026 at 09:51 UTC
Run
1315
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000805

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 25, 2026 at 16:45 UTC
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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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OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated close-up of a person's face with closed eyes and a dark top, overlaid with bright pink text reading 'chaby' at the bottom.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 09:44 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,314 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,095, response 771

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • dark brown (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • pink
  • dark brown
  • black

Composition

  • close-up
  • face occupies upper frame
  • text spans bottom

Dense Caption

The image is a static, pixelated close-up showing a person's face with closed eyes and a dark-colored top. The face occupies the upper portion of the frame, with visible skin tones and dark hair. Below the face, bright pink text in a pixelated font spells 'chaby' across the bottom. The background is dark, with no additional objects or symbols present. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance typical of early 2000s online avatars.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person's face with closed eyes and a dark top, overlaid with bright pink text reading 'chaby' at the bottom.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20090514160135863726488

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • chaby pixelated face
  • pink text buddy icon
  • closed eyes pixel art
  • low-resolution chaby avatar

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • 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
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • chaby

Wordwall

  • pixelated face
  • closed eyes
  • dark top
  • pink text
  • chaby
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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
20090514160135863726488
Archive entry
20090514160135863726488.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:58 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#20090514160135863726488.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090514160135863726488.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016