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Pixelated image of a person with brown hair wearing a blue shirt and gray jacket, with cyan text overlay reading 'hottie.<3' at the top.

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Pixelated image of a person with brown hair wearing a blue shirt and gray jacket, with cyan text overlay reading 'hottie.<3' at the top.

Pixelated image of a person with brown hair wearing a blue shirt and gray jacket, with cyan text overlay reading 'hottie.<3' at the top. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Arc…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • head and shoulders
  • text overlay top
  • cropped to upper body

Dense Caption

Pixelated image shows a person with brown hair, light skin, and closed eyes. The person wears a blue shirt under a gray jacket. Cyan text 'hottie.<3' appears at the top of the image. The background is dark and indistinct. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics. The person's expression is neutral. The text uses a pixelated font style. The image is cropped to show the upper body and head. The overall color palette includes brown, blue, gray, cyan, and black.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with brown hair wearing a blue shirt and gray jacket, with cyan text overlay reading 'hottie.<3' at the top.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 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
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • 200708191533091076760277

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hottie.<3 pixelated text
  • brown hair blue shirt gray jacket
  • cyan text overlay
  • low-resolution digital graphics

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

Visible Text

  • hottie.<3

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • closed eyes
  • blue shirt
  • gray jacket
  • cyan text
  • pixelated
  • hottie.<3
  • low-resolution
  • neutral expression
  • dark background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708191533091076760277
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.7 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/c1/c14cb0dad08daa2a96cc6996273f212d79cbe58366212adf06d8c9c8479bb45f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC
Archive ID
c14cb0dad08daa2a
SHA-256
c14cb0dad08daa2a96cc6996273f212d79cbe58366212adf06d8c9c8479bb45f
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 29, 2026 at 04:37 UTC
Run
15963
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.052111

OpenAI category scores

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 5, 2026 at 15:08 UTC
Run
1269
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.052477

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagsexual0.052477falseviolence0.016014falseself-harm0.000572falseself-harm/intent0.000246falseself-harm/instructions0.000214falseviolence/graphic0.000035falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:37 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.284000

OpenAI category scores

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

Pixelated image of a person with brown hair wearing a blue shirt and gray jacket, with cyan text overlay reading 'hottie.<3' at the top.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 02:16 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,081 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,090, response 753

Review tags

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  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • digital graphics (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • brown
  • blue
  • gray
  • cyan
  • black

Composition

  • head and shoulders
  • text overlay top
  • cropped to upper body

Dense Caption

Pixelated image shows a person with brown hair, light skin, and closed eyes. The person wears a blue shirt under a gray jacket. Cyan text 'hottie.<3' appears at the top of the image. The background is dark and indistinct. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics. The person's expression is neutral. The text uses a pixelated font style. The image is cropped to show the upper body and head. The overall color palette includes brown, blue, gray, cyan, and black.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with brown hair wearing a blue shirt and gray jacket, with cyan text overlay reading 'hottie.<3' at the top.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 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
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • 200708191533091076760277

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hottie.<3 pixelated text
  • brown hair blue shirt gray jacket
  • cyan text overlay
  • low-resolution digital graphics

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • digital graphics

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • hottie.<3

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • closed eyes
  • blue shirt
  • gray jacket
  • cyan text
  • pixelated
  • hottie.<3
  • low-resolution
  • neutral expression
  • dark background
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 12:13 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
200708191533091076760277
Archive entry
200708191533091076760277.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 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#200708191533091076760277.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708191533091076760277.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016