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A static image of a person with dark hair and earbuds, overlaid with the text "HEY!" in a black box.

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A static image of a person with dark hair and earbuds, overlaid with the text "HEY!" in a black box.

A static image of a person with dark hair and earbuds, overlaid with the text "HEY!" in a black box. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bud…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered subject
  • text overlay

Dense Caption

The image shows a person with dark, tousled hair and white earbuds against a brown background. The person's face is partially obscured by a black rectangular box containing the text "HEY!" in white capital letters. The image has a pixelated, low-resolution appearance typical of early 2000s digital art. The person's expression appears neutral with a slight smile. The image is cropped to show only the upper body and head.

Description

  • A static image of a person with dark hair and earbuds, overlaid with the text "HEY!" in a black box.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • celebrities

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person hey text
  • dark hair earbuds brown background
  • pixelated hey text
  • neutral expression hey text

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be a single static frame with no visible animation changes

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

  • HEY!

Wordwall

  • person
  • dark hair
  • earbuds
  • brown background
  • text "HEY!"
  • black box
  • pixelated
  • neutral expression
  • slight smile

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
201007170912261015125233
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:06 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
8.4 KB
Motion
Animated (5 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/fb/fbdd0e8a3841c11922d83f4518609bc9590419e879546e1ab1fa1575cc736108.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:06 UTC
Archive ID
fbdd0e8a3841c119
SHA-256
fbdd0e8a3841c11922d83f4518609bc9590419e879546e1ab1fa1575cc736108
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 29, 2026 at 23:37 UTC
Run
15966
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000059

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
August 7, 2026 at 02:43 UTC
Run
1272
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:08 UTC
Run
1140
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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

A static image of a person with dark hair and earbuds, overlaid with the text "HEY!" in a black box.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 20:01 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,727 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,168, response 720

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • casual (mood, 0.80)
  • friendly (mood, 0.80)
  • black box (object, 0.80)
  • earbuds (object, 0.80)
  • digital art (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • brown
  • black
  • white
  • dark gray

Composition

  • centered subject
  • text overlay

Dense Caption

The image shows a person with dark, tousled hair and white earbuds against a brown background. The person's face is partially obscured by a black rectangular box containing the text "HEY!" in white capital letters. The image has a pixelated, low-resolution appearance typical of early 2000s digital art. The person's expression appears neutral with a slight smile. The image is cropped to show only the upper body and head.

Description

  • A static image of a person with dark hair and earbuds, overlaid with the text "HEY!" in a black box.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • celebrities

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • casual
  • friendly

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person hey text
  • dark hair earbuds brown background
  • pixelated hey text
  • neutral expression hey text

Objects

  • earbuds
  • black box

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be a single static frame with no visible animation changes

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • digital art

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • HEY!

Wordwall

  • person
  • dark hair
  • earbuds
  • brown background
  • text "HEY!"
  • black box
  • pixelated
  • neutral expression
  • slight smile
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 22:57 UTC
Run
61
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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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
201007170912261015125233
Archive entry
201007170912261015125233.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:06 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#201007170912261015125233.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#201007170912261015125233.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016