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A pixelated image of a person with brown hair and a black shirt, with pink text reading 'hottie' and a heart symbol at the bottom left.

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A pixelated image of a person with brown hair and a black shirt, with pink text reading 'hottie' and a heart symbol at the bottom left.

A pixelated image of a person with brown hair and a black shirt, with pink text reading 'hottie' and a heart symbol at the bottom left. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Inte…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static

Animation Summary

  • static image

Composition

  • close-up
  • bottom-left text
  • diagonal background lines

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated close-up of a person with brown hair and a black shirt against a light background with diagonal dark lines. The person's head is turned slightly left. At the bottom left, there is pink pixelated text reading 'hottie' followed by a pink heart symbol. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance with visible pixelation and color banding.

Description

  • A pixelated image of a person with brown hair and a black shirt, with pink text reading 'hottie' and a heart symbol at the bottom left.

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
  • 20070810091619291417799

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hottie pink heart
  • pixelated brown hair black shirt
  • retro digital text heart
  • buddy icon pink text

Objects

  • heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling detected
  • no matte or frame artifacts

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

  • hottie

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • black shirt
  • pink text
  • heart symbol
  • pixelated
  • light background
  • diagonal lines
  • head turned left
  • retro digital

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070810091619291417799
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.2 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b2/b2356321a064378aa4185c76fee6ffa5972d7b1563c4f60972548fc38bf929b2.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 UTC
Archive ID
b2356321a064378a
SHA-256
b2356321a064378aa4185c76fee6ffa5972d7b1563c4f60972548fc38bf929b2
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 7, 2026 at 14:35 UTC
Run
1272
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001274

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.001274falseself-harm0.000577falseself-harm/intent0.000227falsesexual0.000148falseviolence/graphic0.000032falseself-harm/instructions0.000003falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:28 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.238566

OpenAI category scores

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

A pixelated image of a person with brown hair and a black shirt, with pink text reading 'hottie' and a heart symbol at the bottom left.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 21:41 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,943 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,143, response 776

Review tags

  • head turned left (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark teal (color, 0.80)
  • light beige (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (object, 0.80)
  • static (other, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • head turned left

Animation

  • static

Animation Summary

  • static image

Colors

  • brown
  • black
  • pink
  • light beige
  • dark teal

Composition

  • close-up
  • bottom-left text
  • diagonal background lines

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated close-up of a person with brown hair and a black shirt against a light background with diagonal dark lines. The person's head is turned slightly left. At the bottom left, there is pink pixelated text reading 'hottie' followed by a pink heart symbol. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance with visible pixelation and color banding.

Description

  • A pixelated image of a person with brown hair and a black shirt, with pink text reading 'hottie' and a heart symbol at the bottom left.

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
  • 20070810091619291417799

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hottie pink heart
  • pixelated brown hair black shirt
  • retro digital text heart
  • buddy icon pink text

Objects

  • heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling detected
  • no matte or frame artifacts

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • hottie

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • black shirt
  • pink text
  • heart symbol
  • pixelated
  • light background
  • diagonal lines
  • head turned left
  • retro digital
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 11:07 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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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
20070810091619291417799
Archive entry
20070810091619291417799.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 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#20070810091619291417799.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070810091619291417799.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016