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Pixelated close-up of a person with long brown hair, smiling, with text overlay reading 'MEEE<333' on a black bar.

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Pixelated close-up of a person with long brown hair, smiling, with text overlay reading 'MEEE<333' on a black bar.

Pixelated close-up of a person with long brown hair, smiling, with text overlay reading 'MEEE<333' on a black bar. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Share…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered face
  • text bar at bottom

Dense Caption

Pixelated close-up of a person with long brown hair, showing a smiling expression with closed eyes. The person has light skin and visible eyebrows. Below the face, a black rectangular bar contains white pixelated text reading 'MEEE<333'. The background is indistinct with muted brown and gray tones. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person with long brown hair, smiling, with text overlay reading 'MEEE<333' on a black bar.

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
  • 200902280544461449026521

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • smiling person pixelated text MEEE<333
  • low-resolution buddy icon text bar
  • brown hair smiling face
  • MEEE<333 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

  • MEEE<333

Wordwall

  • long brown hair
  • smiling expression
  • closed eyes
  • light skin
  • white pixelated text
  • black bar
  • muted background
  • low-resolution
  • pixelated

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200902280544461449026521
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.9 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b5/b5625ea132443ab0e0db7a29f01f8e77cce801b2df501e4d0feec949013d3cbd.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 UTC
Archive ID
b5625ea132443ab0
SHA-256
b5625ea132443ab0e0db7a29f01f8e77cce801b2df501e4d0feec949013d3cbd
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:30 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.086098

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated close-up of a person with long brown hair, smiling, with text overlay reading 'MEEE<333' on a black bar.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 00:51 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,056 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,089, response 779

Review tags

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  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light skin (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • text bar (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling

Colors

  • brown
  • light skin
  • white
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered face
  • text bar at bottom

Dense Caption

Pixelated close-up of a person with long brown hair, showing a smiling expression with closed eyes. The person has light skin and visible eyebrows. Below the face, a black rectangular bar contains white pixelated text reading 'MEEE<333'. The background is indistinct with muted brown and gray tones. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person with long brown hair, smiling, with text overlay reading 'MEEE<333' on a black bar.

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
  • 200902280544461449026521

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • happy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • smiling person pixelated text MEEE<333
  • low-resolution buddy icon text bar
  • brown hair smiling face
  • MEEE<333 pixelated text

Objects

  • text bar

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: 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
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • MEEE<333

Wordwall

  • long brown hair
  • smiling expression
  • closed eyes
  • light skin
  • white pixelated text
  • black bar
  • muted background
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  • pixelated
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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
200902280544461449026521
Archive entry
200902280544461449026521.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 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#200902280544461449026521.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200902280544461449026521.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016