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Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair and a dark top, with red text reading 'Exist' at the bottom.

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Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair and a dark top, with red text reading 'Exist' at the bottom.

Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair and a dark top, with red text reading 'Exist' at the bottom. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bu…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • upper body
  • head
  • brown background
  • text at bottom

Dense Caption

Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair, fair skin, and a dark top. The background is solid brown. Red text reading 'Exist' appears at the bottom in a pixelated font. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics. The person's expression is neutral. The image is cropped to show the upper body and head.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair and a dark top, with red text reading 'Exist' at the bottom.

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
  • 201012192124541811514456

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • light brown hair person
  • red text exist
  • pixelated upper body
  • brown background text

Preprocessing Notes

  • upscaling detected

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

  • Exist

Wordwall

  • light brown hair
  • fair skin
  • dark top
  • brown background
  • red text
  • pixelated
  • neutral expression
  • upper body
  • low-resolution
  • blocky appearance

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
201012192124541811514456
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:07 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.9 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b6/b6e2ae70f3fcc2ea6057dd8c941a75101ee200106fe3f08973e2c98fea2e7257.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:07 UTC
Archive ID
b6e2ae70f3fcc2ea
SHA-256
b6e2ae70f3fcc2ea6057dd8c941a75101ee200106fe3f08973e2c98fea2e7257
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
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
0.110789

OpenAI category scores

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

Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair and a dark top, with red text reading 'Exist' at the bottom.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 21:25 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,726 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,090, response 745

Review tags

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  • dark (color, 0.80)
  • fair (color, 0.80)
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  • red (color, 0.80)
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  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • light brown
  • fair
  • dark
  • brown
  • red

Composition

  • upper body
  • head
  • brown background
  • text at bottom

Dense Caption

Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair, fair skin, and a dark top. The background is solid brown. Red text reading 'Exist' appears at the bottom in a pixelated font. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics. The person's expression is neutral. The image is cropped to show the upper body and head.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair and a dark top, with red text reading 'Exist' at the bottom.

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
  • 201012192124541811514456

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • light brown hair person
  • red text exist
  • pixelated upper body
  • brown background text

Preprocessing Notes

  • upscaling detected

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
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  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

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  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • Exist

Wordwall

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  • fair skin
  • dark top
  • brown background
  • red text
  • pixelated
  • neutral expression
  • upper body
  • low-resolution
  • blocky appearance
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 23:19 UTC
Run
61
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
201012192124541811514456
Archive entry
201012192124541811514456.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:07 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#201012192124541811514456.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#201012192124541811514456.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016