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Pixelated image of a smiling person with brown hair on left, cyan background with purple text reading 'I Luv Ryan' and 'Checkler!' on right.

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Pixelated image of a smiling person with brown hair on left, cyan background with purple text reading 'I Luv Ryan' and 'Checkler!' on right.

Pixelated image of a smiling person with brown hair on left, cyan background with purple text reading 'I Luv Ryan' and 'Checkler!' on right. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • left image , right text

Dense Caption

Left side shows pixelated close-up of person with light brown curly hair lying down on white textured surface. Right side has solid cyan background with three lines of purple pixelated text: top line reads 'I Luv', middle left reads 'Ryan', bottom right reads 'Checkler!'. Text uses blocky, retro digital font typical of early 2000s instant messaging interfaces. Image is low-resolution with visible dithering and color banding.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a smiling person with brown hair on left, cyan background with purple text reading 'I Luv Ryan' and 'Checkler!' on right.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Ryan Checkler

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

Named Entities

  • Ryan Checkler

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Ryan Checkler I Luv
  • I Luv Ryan Checkler
  • cyan background purple text
  • pixelated smiling person brown hair

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: left image panel, right text panels

Visible Text

  • I Luv
  • Ryan
  • Checkler!

Visually Supported Entities

  • Ryan Checkler

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • smiling face
  • white textured surface
  • cyan background
  • purple text
  • I Luv
  • Ryan
  • Checkler!
  • pixelated image
  • retro digital font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071203130154717966121
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:02 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.8 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/df/dfc412aab7f11af988a357fe5edc27be1844f849dad7f59c80020ae654ae070c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:02 UTC
Archive ID
dfc412aab7f11af9
SHA-256
dfc412aab7f11af988a357fe5edc27be1844f849dad7f59c80020ae654ae070c
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:53 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.144007

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image of a smiling person with brown hair on left, cyan background with purple text reading 'I Luv Ryan' and 'Checkler!' on right.

Reviewed
July 30, 2026 at 22:52 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,875 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,105, response 590

Review tags

  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • white textured surface (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • person with brown hair (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling

Colors

  • cyan
  • purple
  • brown
  • white

Composition

  • left image , right text

Dense Caption

Left side shows pixelated close-up of person with light brown curly hair lying down on white textured surface. Right side has solid cyan background with three lines of purple pixelated text: top line reads 'I Luv', middle left reads 'Ryan', bottom right reads 'Checkler!'. Text uses blocky, retro digital font typical of early 2000s instant messaging interfaces. Image is low-resolution with visible dithering and color banding.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a smiling person with brown hair on left, cyan background with purple text reading 'I Luv Ryan' and 'Checkler!' on right.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Ryan Checkler

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

Mood

  • happy

Named Entities

  • Ryan Checkler

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Ryan Checkler I Luv
  • I Luv Ryan Checkler
  • cyan background purple text
  • pixelated smiling person brown hair

Objects

  • white textured surface

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: left image panel, right text panels

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • person with brown hair

Visible Text

  • I Luv
  • Ryan
  • Checkler!

Visually Supported Entities

  • Ryan Checkler

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • smiling face
  • white textured surface
  • cyan background
  • purple text
  • I Luv
  • Ryan
  • Checkler!
  • pixelated image
  • retro digital font
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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
20071203130154717966121
Archive entry
20071203130154717966121.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:02 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#20071203130154717966121.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071203130154717966121.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016