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Pixelated image of a person in a blue jacket with dark hair and sunglasses, next to red background with black text.

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Pixelated image of a person in a blue jacket with dark hair and sunglasses, next to red background with black text.

Pixelated image of a person in a blue jacket with dark hair and sunglasses, next to red background with black text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksI…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Actions

  • mouth open

Composition

  • left side person
  • right side text
  • solid red background
  • blurred background elements

Dense Caption

Pixelated image shows a person with dark hair wearing dark sunglasses and a blue jacket with white accents. The person's mouth is slightly open. To the right, a solid red background contains black pixelated text reading 'love him <3'. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation and color banding. The left side background includes blurred red and light tones.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person in a blue jacket with dark hair and sunglasses, next to red background with black 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person sunglasses blue jacket love him
  • love him <3 pixelated text
  • red background pixelated image
  • blue jacket white accents sunglasses

Visible Text

  • love him <3

Wordwall

  • person
  • dark hair
  • sunglasses
  • blue jacket
  • white accents
  • mouth open
  • red background
  • black text
  • love him <3
  • pixelated
  • low resolution
  • color banding
  • blurred background
  • solid red
  • text <3
  • white accents on jacket
  • mouth slightly open
  • pixelated text
  • red background tones
  • blurred red tones

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708051808311417348759
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/d2/d2c7f1fc0133861053c17661049f5275e1f0e8d15a83608dd40c1ead51e175ea.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC
Archive ID
d2c7f1fc01338610
SHA-256
d2c7f1fc0133861053c17661049f5275e1f0e8d15a83608dd40c1ead51e175ea
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:14 UTC
Run
1033
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.101716

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated image of a person in a blue jacket with dark hair and sunglasses, next to red background with black text.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 19:26 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,799 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,147, response 708

Review tags

  • mouth open (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • jacket (object, 0.80)
  • sunglasses (object, 0.80)
  • digital (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • mouth open

Colors

  • red
  • blue
  • black
  • white
  • brown
  • gray

Composition

  • left side person
  • right side text
  • solid red background
  • blurred background elements

Dense Caption

Pixelated image shows a person with dark hair wearing dark sunglasses and a blue jacket with white accents. The person's mouth is slightly open. To the right, a solid red background contains black pixelated text reading 'love him <3'. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation and color banding. The left side background includes blurred red and light tones.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person in a blue jacket with dark hair and sunglasses, next to red background with black 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

Mood

  • affectionate
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person sunglasses blue jacket love him
  • love him <3 pixelated text
  • red background pixelated image
  • blue jacket white accents sunglasses

Objects

  • sunglasses
  • jacket

Style

  • pixelated
  • low resolution
  • digital

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • love him <3

Wordwall

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  • dark hair
  • sunglasses
  • blue jacket
  • white accents
  • mouth open
  • red background
  • black text
  • love him <3
  • pixelated
  • low resolution
  • color banding
  • blurred background
  • solid red
  • text <3
  • white accents on jacket
  • mouth slightly open
  • pixelated text
  • red background tones
  • blurred red tones
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 10:30 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)
Raw JSON
Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
200708051808311417348759
Archive entry
200708051808311417348759.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#200708051808311417348759.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708051808311417348759.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016