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Pixelated image of a person with short brown hair wearing a dark blue shirt with white text reading "COLLEGE" against a blurred green and dark background.

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Pixelated image of a person with short brown hair wearing a dark blue shirt with white text reading "COLLEGE" against a blurred green and dark background.

Pixelated image of a person with short brown hair wearing a dark blue shirt with white text reading "COLLEGE" against a blurred green and dark background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • upper body
  • cropped
  • centered subject
  • blurred background

Dense Caption

Pixelated image of a person with short brown hair and light skin. The person wears a dark blue shirt with white text reading "COLLEGE" across the chest. The background consists of blurred green foliage on the left and dark tones on the right. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital photography or compressed graphics. The person's expression appears neutral. The shirt collar is visible and appears to be white. The image is cropped to show the upper body from the shoulders up.

Description

Pixelated image of a person with short brown hair wearing a dark blue shirt with white text reading "COLLEGE" against a blurred green and dark background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070827160240155910476

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person college shirt
  • brown hair college text
  • green background pixelated
  • neutral expression college shirt
  • low-resolution college text
  • upper body college shirt
  • blocky pixels college text
  • cropped college shirt

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or compressed

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

Visible Text

  • COLLEGE

Wordwall

  • person
  • brown hair
  • dark blue shirt
  • white text
  • COLLEGE
  • green background
  • dark background
  • neutral expression
  • low-resolution
  • blocky pixels
  • upper body
  • collar
  • foliage
  • cropped

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070827160240155910476
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/cf/cf0d0c714fbf06c2d6ddf089b560e1bdd3c31054d414a50ec0d59847f44221ba.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC
Archive ID
cf0d0c714fbf06c2
SHA-256
cf0d0c714fbf06c2d6ddf089b560e1bdd3c31054d414a50ec0d59847f44221ba
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:44 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.111195

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

Pixelated image of a person with short brown hair wearing a dark blue shirt with white text reading "COLLEGE" against a blurred green and dark background.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 06:15 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,860 ms
Tokens
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Colors

  • brown
  • dark blue
  • white
  • green
  • dark gray

Composition

  • upper body
  • cropped
  • centered subject
  • blurred background

Dense Caption

Pixelated image of a person with short brown hair and light skin. The person wears a dark blue shirt with white text reading "COLLEGE" across the chest. The background consists of blurred green foliage on the left and dark tones on the right. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital photography or compressed graphics. The person's expression appears neutral. The shirt collar is visible and appears to be white. The image is cropped to show the upper body from the shoulders up.

Description

Pixelated image of a person with short brown hair wearing a dark blue shirt with white text reading "COLLEGE" against a blurred green and dark background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070827160240155910476

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • brown hair college text
  • green background pixelated
  • neutral expression college shirt
  • low-resolution college text
  • upper body college shirt
  • blocky pixels college text
  • cropped college shirt

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or compressed

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
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  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

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Subjects

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Visible Text

  • COLLEGE

Wordwall

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  • brown hair
  • dark blue shirt
  • white text
  • COLLEGE
  • green background
  • dark background
  • neutral expression
  • low-resolution
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  • upper body
  • collar
  • foliage
  • cropped
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
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July 27, 2026 at 13:20 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
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Error
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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
20070827160240155910476
Archive entry
20070827160240155910476.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 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#20070827160240155910476.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070827160240155910476.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016