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Pixelated image of a person with light brown curly hair wearing a white shirt, positioned next to a blue and silver object with orange text reading 'TROPICS' at the bottom.

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Pixelated image of a person with light brown curly hair wearing a white shirt, positioned next to a blue and silver object with orange text reading 'TROPICS' at the bottom.

Pixelated image of a person with light brown curly hair wearing a white shirt, positioned next to a blue and silver object with orange text reading 'TROPICS' at the bottom. 50×50…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • person on left
  • object on right
  • text at bottom

Dense Caption

Pixelated image shows a person with light brown curly hair and fair skin wearing a white shirt. The person is positioned to the left of a blue and silver object with metallic and reflective surfaces. Below the image, orange block letters spell 'TROPICS' on a black background. The background behind the person is dark with indistinct shapes. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation throughout.

Description

Pixelated image of a person with light brown curly hair wearing a white shirt, positioned next to a blue and silver object with orange text reading 'TROPICS' at the bottom.

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

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 2008030416245353991180
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person with light brown curly hair white shirt
  • blue silver object orange text TROPICS
  • pixelated low resolution image
  • TROPICS text block

Visible Text

  • TROPICS

Wordwall

  • light brown curly hair
  • white shirt
  • blue and silver object
  • orange text
  • TROPICS
  • black background
  • pixelated
  • low resolution
  • fair skin
  • metallic surfaces

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2008030416245353991180
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.8 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ff/ff0116290841ed83a6b909c0ad9d6e46996097b4bc09f16524c77bbbd24110b6.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 UTC
Archive ID
ff0116290841ed83
SHA-256
ff0116290841ed83a6b909c0ad9d6e46996097b4bc09f16524c77bbbd24110b6
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:10 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.102431

OpenAI category scores

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

Pixelated image of a person with light brown curly hair wearing a white shirt, positioned next to a blue and silver object with orange text reading 'TROPICS' at the bottom.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 15:37 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,433 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,089, response 747

Review tags

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  • fair skin tone (color, 0.80)
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  • person (subject, 0.80)

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  • light brown
  • white
  • blue
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  • black
  • fair skin tone

Composition

  • person on left
  • object on right
  • text at bottom

Dense Caption

Pixelated image shows a person with light brown curly hair and fair skin wearing a white shirt. The person is positioned to the left of a blue and silver object with metallic and reflective surfaces. Below the image, orange block letters spell 'TROPICS' on a black background. The background behind the person is dark with indistinct shapes. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation throughout.

Description

Pixelated image of a person with light brown curly hair wearing a white shirt, positioned next to a blue and silver object with orange text reading 'TROPICS' at the bottom.

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

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 2008030416245353991180
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • blue silver object orange text TROPICS
  • pixelated low resolution image
  • TROPICS text block

Objects

  • blue and silver object

Style

  • pixelated
  • low resolution
  • blocky text

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • TROPICS

Wordwall

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  • white shirt
  • blue and silver object
  • orange text
  • TROPICS
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  • pixelated
  • low resolution
  • fair skin
  • metallic surfaces
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 04:45 UTC
Run
56
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
2008030416245353991180
Archive entry
2008030416245353991180.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 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#2008030416245353991180.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2008030416245353991180.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016