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Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair wearing a light blue shirt, next to white text on black background reading 'this is my brother Jeffrey'.

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Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair wearing a light blue shirt, next to white text on black background reading 'this is my brother Jeffrey'.

Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair wearing a light blue shirt, next to white text on black background reading 'this is my brother Jeffrey'. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM b…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split left-right
  • text on right
  • figure on left

Dense Caption

Left side shows pixelated figure with short light brown hair and light blue collared shirt against dark background. Right side features white blocky text on solid black background: 'this' (top), 'is', 'my', 'brother', 'Jeffrey' stacked vertically. Text uses 8-bit style font, each letter formed by distinct pixels. Image has low resolution with visible pixelation throughout.

Description

Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair wearing a light blue shirt, next to white text on black background reading 'this is my brother Jeffrey'.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Named Entities

  • Jeffrey

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brother Jeffrey pixelated text
  • light blue shirt brother Jeffrey
  • 8-bit font brother Jeffrey
  • pixelated figure light brown hair

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears static; no visible motion changes detected in input frames

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Visible Text

  • this is my brother Jeffrey

Visually Supported Entities

  • Jeffrey

Wordwall

  • light brown hair
  • light blue shirt
  • black background
  • white text
  • 8-bit font
  • pixelated figure
  • vertical text layout
  • brother Jeffrey

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200806031335131213225168
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:28 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/fb/fb1f79dc07121655a30e59a16f153032af416dce253355a72480a68ad8a79fbd.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:28 UTC
Archive ID
fb1f79dc07121655
SHA-256
fb1f79dc07121655a30e59a16f153032af416dce253355a72480a68ad8a79fbd
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:08 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.080605

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair wearing a light blue shirt, next to white text on black background reading 'this is my brother Jeffrey'.

Reviewed
August 16, 2026 at 16:10 UTC
Run
59
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,794 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,146, response 650

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
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  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • light blue
  • black
  • white
  • light brown

Composition

  • split left-right
  • text on right
  • figure on left

Dense Caption

Left side shows pixelated figure with short light brown hair and light blue collared shirt against dark background. Right side features white blocky text on solid black background: 'this' (top), 'is', 'my', 'brother', 'Jeffrey' stacked vertically. Text uses 8-bit style font, each letter formed by distinct pixels. Image has low resolution with visible pixelation throughout.

Description

Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair wearing a light blue shirt, next to white text on black background reading 'this is my brother Jeffrey'.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • neutral

Named Entities

  • Jeffrey

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brother Jeffrey pixelated text
  • light blue shirt brother Jeffrey
  • 8-bit font brother Jeffrey
  • pixelated figure light brown hair

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears static; no visible motion changes detected in input frames

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Style

  • pixelated
  • 8-bit
  • blocky text

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • this is my brother Jeffrey

Visually Supported Entities

  • Jeffrey

Wordwall

  • light brown hair
  • light blue shirt
  • black background
  • white text
  • 8-bit font
  • pixelated figure
  • vertical text layout
  • brother Jeffrey
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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
200806031335131213225168
Archive entry
200806031335131213225168.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:28 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#200806031335131213225168.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200806031335131213225168.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016