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Pixelated image of a person in red clothing on left, blue text 'hey hey hey it is FAT Albert!' on solid red background right.

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Pixelated image of a person in red clothing on left, blue text 'hey hey hey it is FAT Albert!' on solid red background right.

Pixelated image of a person in red clothing on left, blue text 'hey hey hey it is FAT Albert!' on solid red background right. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archi…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split composition
  • left figure on white background
  • right text on solid red background

Dense Caption

Left side shows pixelated figure with short dark hair wearing red top; white background behind. Right side has solid bright red background with vertical blue pixelated text: 'hey' repeated three times, then 'it is', then 'FAT Albert!'. Text uses blocky 8-bit style font. Figure's expression appears neutral to slightly smiling. Image exhibits low-resolution digital rendering typical of early web graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person in red clothing on left, blue text 'hey hey hey it is FAT Albert!' on solid red background right.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Albert

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

Named Entities

  • FAT Albert

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • FAT Albert pixelated text
  • hey hey hey it is FAT Albert
  • red background blue text 8-bit
  • person in red clothing white background

Visible Text

  • hey
  • it is
  • FAT Albert!

Visually Supported Entities

  • Albert

Wordwall

  • pixelated figure
  • red clothing
  • white background
  • solid red background
  • blue text
  • hey hey hey it is FAT Albert!
  • blocky 8-bit font
  • neutral expression
  • short dark hair

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071209104825469577128
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:03 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.7 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b5/b5d615666ea996e27a405e73d00b10b8112219f04dd09a2c6ea47c3567246ca6.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:03 UTC
Archive ID
b5d615666ea996e2
SHA-256
b5d615666ea996e27a405e73d00b10b8112219f04dd09a2c6ea47c3567246ca6
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:28 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.209345

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image of a person in red clothing on left, blue text 'hey hey hey it is FAT Albert!' on solid red background right.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 00:39 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,219 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,146, response 597

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • white
  • blue
  • black

Composition

  • split composition
  • left figure on white background
  • right text on solid red background

Dense Caption

Left side shows pixelated figure with short dark hair wearing red top; white background behind. Right side has solid bright red background with vertical blue pixelated text: 'hey' repeated three times, then 'it is', then 'FAT Albert!'. Text uses blocky 8-bit style font. Figure's expression appears neutral to slightly smiling. Image exhibits low-resolution digital rendering typical of early web graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person in red clothing on left, blue text 'hey hey hey it is FAT Albert!' on solid red background right.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Albert

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

Mood

  • playful

Named Entities

  • FAT Albert

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • FAT Albert pixelated text
  • hey hey hey it is FAT Albert
  • red background blue text 8-bit
  • person in red clothing white background

Style

  • pixelated
  • 8-bit
  • blocky text

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • hey
  • it is
  • FAT Albert!

Visually Supported Entities

  • Albert

Wordwall

  • pixelated figure
  • red clothing
  • white background
  • solid red background
  • blue text
  • hey hey hey it is FAT Albert!
  • blocky 8-bit font
  • neutral expression
  • short dark hair
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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
20071209104825469577128
Archive entry
20071209104825469577128.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:03 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#20071209104825469577128.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071209104825469577128.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016