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Pixelated static image of a person with light skin tone wearing a yellow top, smiling with visible teeth, against a dark background with blue and yellow elements.

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Pixelated static image of a person with light skin tone wearing a yellow top, smiling with visible teeth, against a dark background with blue and yellow elements.

Pixelated static image of a person with light skin tone wearing a yellow top, smiling with visible teeth, against a dark background with blue and yellow elements. 48×48 GIF AIM bu…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered subject
  • dark background
  • yellow bottom
  • blue right

Dense Caption

Pixelated static image of a person with light skin tone wearing a yellow top, smiling with visible teeth, against a dark background with blue and yellow elements. The person has brown hair. The background includes a dark area on the left, a blue and purple shape on the right, and a yellow area at the bottom. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance with visible pixelation.

Description

Pixelated static image of a person with light skin tone wearing a yellow top, smiling with visible teeth, against a dark background with blue and yellow elements.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20081101142628643079715

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person smiling yellow top
  • pixelated person brown hair
  • yellow top blue shape
  • smiling visible teeth
  • dark background yellow shape
  • blocky appearance smiling
  • light skin tone yellow top
  • blue shape yellow shape

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  • light skin tone
  • yellow top
  • smiling
  • visible teeth
  • brown hair
  • dark background
  • blue shape
  • yellow shape
  • pixelated
  • blocky appearance

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081101142628643079715
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 UTC
Archive ID
c1781d5888909301
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:37 UTC
Run
1140
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
0.076338

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Pixelated static image of a person with light skin tone wearing a yellow top, smiling with visible teeth, against a dark background with blue and yellow elements.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 06:30 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,588 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,091, response 738

Review tags

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  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark (color, 0.80)
  • light skin tone (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • blue shape (object, 0.80)
  • yellow shape (object, 0.80)
  • yellow top (object, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling

Colors

  • light skin tone
  • yellow
  • brown
  • dark
  • blue
  • purple

Composition

  • centered subject
  • dark background
  • yellow bottom
  • blue right

Dense Caption

Pixelated static image of a person with light skin tone wearing a yellow top, smiling with visible teeth, against a dark background with blue and yellow elements. The person has brown hair. The background includes a dark area on the left, a blue and purple shape on the right, and a yellow area at the bottom. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance with visible pixelation.

Description

Pixelated static image of a person with light skin tone wearing a yellow top, smiling with visible teeth, against a dark background with blue and yellow elements.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20081101142628643079715

Mood

  • happy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • pixelated person brown hair
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  • smiling visible teeth
  • dark background yellow shape
  • blocky appearance smiling
  • light skin tone yellow top
  • blue shape yellow shape

Objects

  • yellow top
  • blue shape
  • yellow shape

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • light skin tone
  • yellow top
  • smiling
  • visible teeth
  • brown hair
  • dark background
  • blue shape
  • yellow shape
  • pixelated
  • blocky appearance
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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
20081101142628643079715
Archive entry
20081101142628643079715.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 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#20081101142628643079715.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081101142628643079715.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016