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A pixelated image of a person with brown hair wearing a dark shirt, with pink text above the head changing from 'zqc' to 'epron'

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A pixelated image of a person with brown hair wearing a dark shirt, with pink text above the head changing from 'zqc' to 'epron'

A pixelated image of a person with brown hair wearing a dark shirt, with pink text above the head changing from 'zqc' to 'epron'. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet A…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • text changes from 'zqc' to 'epron'

Animation Summary

  • Text above the head changes from 'zqc' to 'epron' while the rest of the image remains static.

Composition

  • shoulders-up view
  • vertical background element

Dense Caption

The image shows a person with brown hair and a dark shirt, viewed from the shoulders up. The background is a blue textured surface with a light-colored vertical element on the left. Pink pixelated text appears above the person's head: in the first frame it reads 'zqc', and in the second frame it changes to 'epron'. The person's expression is neutral, with eyes looking downward. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated quality typical of early 2000s digital graphics. The text change is the only visible animation between the two frames.

Description

  • A pixelated image of a person with brown hair wearing a dark shirt, with pink text above the head changing from 'zqc' to 'epron'

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070723210726369400438
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person brown hair dark shirt pink text 'zqc' 'epron'
  • brown hair dark shirt blue background pixelated text change
  • neutral expression downward gaze pink text 'zqc' 'epron'

Preprocessing Notes

quarantined description: A pixelated image of a person with brown hair wearing a dark shirt, with pink text above the head changing from 'zqc' to 'epron' across two frames.

Style

  • text overlay

Visible Text

  • zqc
  • epron

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • dark shirt
  • blue textured background
  • pink pixelated text
  • neutral expression
  • downward gaze
  • low-resolution pixel art
  • text changes from 'zqc' to 'epron'

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070723210726369400438
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:33 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.5 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b2/b246797646aa36f7f18f8969cf1d92147a1a3a1b448489052bbaf54023956cb8.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:33 UTC
Archive ID
b246797646aa36f7
SHA-256
b246797646aa36f7f18f8969cf1d92147a1a3a1b448489052bbaf54023956cb8
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
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
0.071072

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.934559onnx/unsafe0.071072onnx/nsfl0.038412onnx/nsfw0.032660
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A pixelated image of a person with brown hair wearing a dark shirt, with pink text above the head changing from 'zqc' to 'epron'

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 13:42 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,032 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,145, response 724

Review tags

  • text changes (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark (color, 0.80)
  • light colored (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • text changes from zqc to epron (other, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text overlay (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • text changes

Animation

  • text changes from 'zqc' to 'epron'

Animation Summary

  • Text above the head changes from 'zqc' to 'epron' while the rest of the image remains static.

Colors

  • brown
  • dark
  • blue
  • pink
  • light-colored

Composition

  • shoulders-up view
  • vertical background element

Dense Caption

The image shows a person with brown hair and a dark shirt, viewed from the shoulders up. The background is a blue textured surface with a light-colored vertical element on the left. Pink pixelated text appears above the person's head: in the first frame it reads 'zqc', and in the second frame it changes to 'epron'. The person's expression is neutral, with eyes looking downward. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated quality typical of early 2000s digital graphics. The text change is the only visible animation between the two frames.

Description

  • A pixelated image of a person with brown hair wearing a dark shirt, with pink text above the head changing from 'zqc' to 'epron'

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070723210726369400438
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person brown hair dark shirt pink text 'zqc' 'epron'
  • brown hair dark shirt blue background pixelated text change
  • neutral expression downward gaze pink text 'zqc' 'epron'

Preprocessing Notes

quarantined description: A pixelated image of a person with brown hair wearing a dark shirt, with pink text above the head changing from 'zqc' to 'epron' across two frames.

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text overlay

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • zqc
  • epron

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • dark shirt
  • blue textured background
  • pink pixelated text
  • neutral expression
  • downward gaze
  • low-resolution pixel art
  • text changes from 'zqc' to 'epron'
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 09:04 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)
Raw JSON
Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
20070723210726369400438
Archive entry
20070723210726369400438.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:33 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#20070723210726369400438.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070723210726369400438.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016