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Pixelated portrait of a smiling person with brown hair, vertical black text 'RUSTY' on left side, light beige background.

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Pixelated portrait of a smiling person with brown hair, vertical black text 'RUSTY' on left side, light beige background.

Pixelated portrait of a smiling person with brown hair, vertical black text 'RUSTY' on left side, light beige background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcon…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • vertical text on left
  • centered subject
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Pixelated static image of a person with short brown hair, light skin, and a broad smile showing teeth. Vertical black text 'RUSTY' in blocky pixel font runs along the left edge. The person wears a light brown or tan collared shirt. Background is solid light beige. Image has low resolution with visible pixelation. No other objects or symbols present.

Description

  • Pixelated portrait of a smiling person with brown hair, vertical black text 'RUSTY' on left side, light beige background.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person rusty
  • smiling rusty
  • rusty pixelated
  • beige background rusty
  • vertical text rusty
  • brown hair rusty
  • collared shirt rusty
  • teeth visible rusty

Visible Text

  • RUSTY

Wordwall

  • vertical text 'RUSTY'
  • brown hair
  • light skin
  • broad smile
  • teeth visible
  • light beige background
  • collared shirt
  • pixelated
  • static image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708030829491352591044
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.1 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/c2/c2d6a30b173d674450976515788998a66970f01d988fa2abf82034840783b3fe.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC
Archive ID
c2d6a30b173d6744
SHA-256
c2d6a30b173d674450976515788998a66970f01d988fa2abf82034840783b3fe
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:38 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.073375

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated portrait of a smiling person with brown hair, vertical black text 'RUSTY' on left side, light beige background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 18:31 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,631 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,096, response 648

Review tags

  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • beige (color, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • tan (color, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling

Colors

  • beige
  • brown
  • black
  • tan

Composition

  • vertical text on left
  • centered subject
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Pixelated static image of a person with short brown hair, light skin, and a broad smile showing teeth. Vertical black text 'RUSTY' in blocky pixel font runs along the left edge. The person wears a light brown or tan collared shirt. Background is solid light beige. Image has low resolution with visible pixelation. No other objects or symbols present.

Description

  • Pixelated portrait of a smiling person with brown hair, vertical black text 'RUSTY' on left side, light beige background.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • happy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person rusty
  • smiling rusty
  • rusty pixelated
  • beige background rusty
  • vertical text rusty
  • brown hair rusty
  • collared shirt rusty
  • teeth visible rusty

Style

  • pixelated
  • static

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • RUSTY

Wordwall

  • vertical text 'RUSTY'
  • brown hair
  • light skin
  • broad smile
  • teeth visible
  • light beige background
  • collared shirt
  • pixelated
  • static image
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 10:15 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
200708030829491352591044
Archive entry
200708030829491352591044.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 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#200708030829491352591044.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708030829491352591044.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016