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Pixelated image of a person with brown hair wearing a white top, overlaid with bold white text reading 'hott' on a black background.

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Pixelated image of a person with brown hair wearing a white top, overlaid with bold white text reading 'hott' on a black background.

Pixelated image of a person with brown hair wearing a white top, overlaid with bold white text reading 'hott' on a black background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Animation Summary

  • static image with no visible motion changes

Composition

  • upper body crop
  • central subject
  • black overlay spanning lower face

Dense Caption

Pixelated image shows a person with brown hair and light skin tone, wearing a white top. The person's face is partially visible with closed eyes and a neutral expression. A black rectangular overlay spans the lower face and neck area, containing bold white lowercase text 'hott' with a pixelated font style. Background is light gray with subtle horizontal lines. Image has low resolution and visible pixelation throughout. No other objects or text are present. The text 'hott' is the only readable text element. The person's hair is long and brown, extending past the shoulders. The image is cropped to show the upper body from the shoulders up. The overall style is low-resolution digital art with heavy pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with brown hair wearing a white top, overlaid with bold white text reading 'hott' on a black 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: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20090725204345462189175
  • 20090725204345922580882
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person brown hair white top 'hott' text
  • pixelated upper body crop 'hott' text
  • brown hair white top black overlay 'hott'
  • person closed eyes neutral expression 'hott' text

Preprocessing Notes

  • low resolution
  • pixelated
  • cropped to upper body

Visible Text

  • hott

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • white top
  • closed eyes
  • neutral expression
  • black overlay
  • white text 'hott'
  • pixelated
  • low resolution
  • light gray background
  • upper body crop

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090725204345922580882
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090725204345462189175
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.7 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/c6/c69c97b8772ac94d50656ebb4637da1af513632ad7c28cce0260faef38c0836d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 UTC
Archive ID
c69c97b8772ac94d
SHA-256
c69c97b8772ac94d50656ebb4637da1af513632ad7c28cce0260faef38c0836d
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:40 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.129962

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.870038onnx/unsafe0.129962onnx/nsfw0.098541onnx/nsfl0.031421
Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated image of a person with brown hair wearing a white top, overlaid with bold white text reading 'hott' on a black background.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 15:16 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,018 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,130, response 769

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • light skin tone (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • static image with no visible motion changes

Colors

  • brown
  • white
  • black
  • light gray
  • light skin tone

Composition

  • upper body crop
  • central subject
  • black overlay spanning lower face

Dense Caption

Pixelated image shows a person with brown hair and light skin tone, wearing a white top. The person's face is partially visible with closed eyes and a neutral expression. A black rectangular overlay spans the lower face and neck area, containing bold white lowercase text 'hott' with a pixelated font style. Background is light gray with subtle horizontal lines. Image has low resolution and visible pixelation throughout. No other objects or text are present. The text 'hott' is the only readable text element. The person's hair is long and brown, extending past the shoulders. The image is cropped to show the upper body from the shoulders up. The overall style is low-resolution digital art with heavy pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with brown hair wearing a white top, overlaid with bold white text reading 'hott' on a black 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: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20090725204345462189175
  • 20090725204345922580882
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person brown hair white top 'hott' text
  • pixelated upper body crop 'hott' text
  • brown hair white top black overlay 'hott'
  • person closed eyes neutral expression 'hott' text

Preprocessing Notes

  • low resolution
  • pixelated
  • cropped to upper body

Style

  • pixelated
  • low resolution

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • hott

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • white top
  • closed eyes
  • neutral expression
  • black overlay
  • white text 'hott'
  • pixelated
  • low resolution
  • light gray background
  • upper body crop
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Full source records (2)

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
20090725204345922580882
Archive entry
20090725204345922580882.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 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#20090725204345922580882.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090725204345922580882.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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
20090725204345462189175
Archive entry
20090725204345462189175.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 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#20090725204345462189175.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090725204345462189175.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016