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A pixelated image of a smiling person with curly brown hair wearing a white shirt, next to a bright green background with red pixelated text.

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A pixelated image of a smiling person with curly brown hair wearing a white shirt, next to a bright green background with red pixelated text.

A pixelated image of a smiling person with curly brown hair wearing a white shirt, next to a bright green background with red pixelated text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon fro…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split left-right
  • text on solid background
  • person on left
  • text on right

Dense Caption

The image is a static pixelated composition divided into two sections. On the left, a person with curly brown hair and a white shirt is shown from the shoulders up, smiling broadly with visible teeth. The right section features a solid bright green background with red pixelated text reading "DOES SOME1 NEED A HUG! :)". The text uses a blocky, retro digital font. The overall style is low-resolution, characteristic of early digital graphics. The person's hair is brown with lighter highlights, and the background behind the person is blurred and indistinct.

Description

A pixelated image of a smiling person with curly brown hair wearing a white shirt, next to a bright green background with red pixelated text.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200708132056321452520612
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • smiling person green background red text
  • DOES SOME1 NEED A HUG! :)
  • pixelated text green background
  • buddy icon smiling person

Visible Text

  • DOES SOME1 NEED A HUG! :)

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • smiling person
  • curly brown hair
  • white shirt
  • bright green background
  • red pixelated text
  • DOES SOME1 NEED A HUG! :)
  • blocky digital font
  • low-resolution
  • broad smile
  • visible teeth
  • blurred background
  • shoulders up
  • text on green
  • retro graphics

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708132056321452520612
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.1 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/c6/c6d129798d80a21bef5ddb8bc8bf4985f6b317e668bc288ddf6e3e8fa358041b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 UTC
Archive ID
c6d129798d80a21b
SHA-256
c6d129798d80a21bef5ddb8bc8bf4985f6b317e668bc288ddf6e3e8fa358041b
Content-safety assessments (1)
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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
0.122603

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

A pixelated image of a smiling person with curly brown hair wearing a white shirt, next to a bright green background with red pixelated text.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 23:18 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,294 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,142, response 822

Review tags

  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • friendly (mood, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling

Colors

  • green
  • red
  • brown
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • split left-right
  • text on solid background
  • person on left
  • text on right

Dense Caption

The image is a static pixelated composition divided into two sections. On the left, a person with curly brown hair and a white shirt is shown from the shoulders up, smiling broadly with visible teeth. The right section features a solid bright green background with red pixelated text reading "DOES SOME1 NEED A HUG! :)". The text uses a blocky, retro digital font. The overall style is low-resolution, characteristic of early digital graphics. The person's hair is brown with lighter highlights, and the background behind the person is blurred and indistinct.

Description

A pixelated image of a smiling person with curly brown hair wearing a white shirt, next to a bright green background with red pixelated text.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200708132056321452520612
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • cheerful
  • friendly

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • smiling person green background red text
  • DOES SOME1 NEED A HUG! :)
  • pixelated text green background
  • buddy icon smiling person

Objects

  • text

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • DOES SOME1 NEED A HUG! :)

Wordwall

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  • smiling person
  • curly brown hair
  • white shirt
  • bright green background
  • red pixelated text
  • DOES SOME1 NEED A HUG! :)
  • blocky digital font
  • low-resolution
  • broad smile
  • visible teeth
  • blurred background
  • shoulders up
  • text on green
  • retro graphics
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 11:33 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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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
200708132056321452520612
Archive entry
200708132056321452520612.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 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#200708132056321452520612.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708132056321452520612.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016