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Pixelated image of a person with brown hair and a white-collared brown garment against a blue background with yellow text reading Follow The Yellow Brick Road

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Pixelated image of a person with brown hair and a white-collared brown garment against a blue background with yellow text reading Follow The Yellow Brick Road

Pixelated image of a person with brown hair and a white-collared brown garment against a blue background with yellow text reading Follow The Yellow Brick Road. Animated 48×48 GIF…

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Animation Summary

  • The image is static with no visible motion changes

Composition

  • split layout
  • portrait on left
  • text on right

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated portrait of a person with light brown hair styled in two braids, wearing a white-collared brown garment. The background is solid bright blue. Yellow pixelated text appears in four segments: 'Follow' in the upper right, 'The' in the lower left, and 'Yellow Brick Road' stacked in the lower right. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital art style with visible pixelation and dithering. The person's expression is neutral with closed lips. The image is cropped to show the upper body and head. The text uses a blocky, pixelated font style. The overall composition is split with the portrait on the left and text on the right against a solid blue background.

Description

Pixelated image of a person with brown hair and a white-collared brown garment against a blue background with yellow text reading Follow The Yellow Brick Road

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

  • 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

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  • blue background pixel art
  • brown hair white collar
  • follow the yellow brick road
  • pixelated portrait blue background
  • yellow text blue background
  • brown garment white collar
  • the yellow brick road text

Visible Text

  • Follow
  • The
  • Yellow
  • Brick
  • Road

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  • brown hair
  • white collar
  • brown garment
  • blue background
  • yellow text
  • pixelated
  • neutral expression
  • braided hair
  • blocky font
  • solid background
  • upper body portrait
  • text segments
  • Follow
  • The
  • Yellow Brick Road
  • retro digital art
  • dithering
  • cropped image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200707271029461633962870
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:34 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/d8/d8a42099cd84fcdc1c3d225ed5fb712c2e329a376fdf7e53f3a845e7aa8195e9.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:34 UTC
Archive ID
d8a42099cd84fcdc
SHA-256
d8a42099cd84fcdc1c3d225ed5fb712c2e329a376fdf7e53f3a845e7aa8195e9
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 16, 2026 at 06:04 UTC
Run
1295
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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July 23, 2026 at 19:50 UTC
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Pixelated image of a person with brown hair and a white-collared brown garment against a blue background with yellow text reading Follow The Yellow Brick Road

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 15:09 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,110 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 774

Review tags

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Animation Summary

  • The image is static with no visible motion changes

Colors

  • blue
  • yellow
  • brown
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • split layout
  • portrait on left
  • text on right

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated portrait of a person with light brown hair styled in two braids, wearing a white-collared brown garment. The background is solid bright blue. Yellow pixelated text appears in four segments: 'Follow' in the upper right, 'The' in the lower left, and 'Yellow Brick Road' stacked in the lower right. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital art style with visible pixelation and dithering. The person's expression is neutral with closed lips. The image is cropped to show the upper body and head. The text uses a blocky, pixelated font style. The overall composition is split with the portrait on the left and text on the right against a solid blue background.

Description

Pixelated image of a person with brown hair and a white-collared brown garment against a blue background with yellow text reading Follow The Yellow Brick Road

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

  • 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

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  • brown hair white collar
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  • brown garment white collar
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  • The
  • Yellow
  • Brick
  • Road

Wordwall

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  • white collar
  • brown garment
  • blue background
  • yellow text
  • pixelated
  • neutral expression
  • braided hair
  • blocky font
  • solid background
  • upper body portrait
  • text segments
  • Follow
  • The
  • Yellow Brick Road
  • retro digital art
  • dithering
  • cropped image
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 09:27 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
200707271029461633962870
Archive entry
200707271029461633962870.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:34 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#200707271029461633962870.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200707271029461633962870.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016