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A pixelated image of a smiling person with curly hair wearing a green and orange hat, with green text reading 'far-' and 'Ted!' on a black background.

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A pixelated image of a smiling person with curly hair wearing a green and orange hat, with green text reading 'far-' and 'Ted!' on a black background.

A pixelated image of a smiling person with curly hair wearing a green and orange hat, with green text reading 'far-' and 'Ted!' on a black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • text below image
  • single vertical line top-right

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated close-up of a person with curly brown hair and a green and orange striped hat, wearing a white shirt. The person is smiling broadly with visible teeth. Below the image, on a black background, there is green pixelated text: 'far-' on the left and 'Ted!' on the right. A single green vertical line is visible in the top-right corner. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance.

Description

A pixelated image of a smiling person with curly hair wearing a green and orange hat, with green text reading 'far-' and 'Ted!' on a black background.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080929180915722323323
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Ted far
  • green text Ted
  • pixelated smiling person
  • green orange hat
  • black background text

Visible Text

  • far-
  • Ted!

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • smiling
  • curly brown hair
  • green and orange striped hat
  • white shirt
  • green text
  • far-
  • Ted!
  • black background
  • single green vertical line

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080929180915722323323
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b1/b1b5d532360a271cd084b71c47fec514f97a59b170685bea77a1c58d66be1134.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC
Archive ID
b1b5d532360a271c
SHA-256
b1b5d532360a271cd084b71c47fec514f97a59b170685bea77a1c58d66be1134
Content-safety assessments (3)
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Assessed
August 19, 2026 at 21:26 UTC
Run
1315
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000034

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Assessed
August 13, 2026 at 21:12 UTC
Run
1290
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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July 23, 2026 at 07:51 UTC
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A pixelated image of a smiling person with curly hair wearing a green and orange hat, with green text reading 'far-' and 'Ted!' on a black background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 02:18 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,786 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 663

Review tags

  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • hat (object, 0.80)
  • shirt (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling

Colors

  • green
  • orange
  • brown
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • close-up
  • text below image
  • single vertical line top-right

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated close-up of a person with curly brown hair and a green and orange striped hat, wearing a white shirt. The person is smiling broadly with visible teeth. Below the image, on a black background, there is green pixelated text: 'far-' on the left and 'Ted!' on the right. A single green vertical line is visible in the top-right corner. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance.

Description

A pixelated image of a smiling person with curly hair wearing a green and orange hat, with green text reading 'far-' and 'Ted!' on a black background.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080929180915722323323
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • happy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Ted far
  • green text Ted
  • pixelated smiling person
  • green orange hat
  • black background text

Objects

  • hat
  • shirt

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • far-
  • Ted!

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • smiling
  • curly brown hair
  • green and orange striped hat
  • white shirt
  • green text
  • far-
  • Ted!
  • black background
  • single green vertical line
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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
20080929180915722323323
Archive entry
20080929180915722323323.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 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#20080929180915722323323.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080929180915722323323.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016