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A pixelated image of a person with brown curly hair smiling, wearing no shirt, with a light blue background and text reading "HAWT!<3" at the bottom right.

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A pixelated image of a person with brown curly hair smiling, wearing no shirt, with a light blue background and text reading "HAWT!<3" at the bottom right.

A pixelated image of a person with brown curly hair smiling, wearing no shirt, with a light blue background and text reading "HAWT!<3" at the bottom right. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered subject
  • text in bottom right corner
  • horizontal stripes in background

Dense Caption

The image shows a person with brown curly hair and a light skin tone, smiling broadly with visible teeth. The person is shirtless, positioned against a light blue background with white and light brown horizontal stripes. In the bottom right corner, there is black pixelated text reading "HAWT!<3". The image has a low-resolution, pixelated appearance typical of early 2000s digital graphics. The person's hair is voluminous and slightly tousled. The background appears to be a blurred outdoor or poolside setting with light blue and white tones.

Description

A pixelated image of a person with brown curly hair smiling, wearing no shirt, with a light blue background and text reading "HAWT!<3" at the bottom right.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown curly hair smiling shirtless
  • HAWT!<3 pixelated text
  • light blue background pixelated image
  • smiling person brown hair

Visible Text

  • HAWT!<3

Wordwall

  • brown curly hair
  • smiling
  • shirtless
  • light blue background
  • HAWT!<3 text
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • light skin tone
  • white stripes
  • tousled hair
  • outdoor setting
  • blurred background
  • visible teeth
  • light brown stripes

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708221152191296006086
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ff/fffd532b2bde2cd652623dd3e40acad25afc8b1292cbb4cd1e245a9b757b466a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 UTC
Archive ID
fffd532b2bde2cd6
SHA-256
fffd532b2bde2cd652623dd3e40acad25afc8b1292cbb4cd1e245a9b757b466a
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 7, 2026 at 22:26 UTC
Run
1275
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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July 23, 2026 at 20:10 UTC
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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A pixelated image of a person with brown curly hair smiling, wearing no shirt, with a light blue background and text reading "HAWT!<3" at the bottom right.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 03:55 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,398 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,140, response 720

Review tags

  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • digital graphics (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling

Colors

  • brown
  • light blue
  • white
  • light brown
  • black

Composition

  • centered subject
  • text in bottom right corner
  • horizontal stripes in background

Dense Caption

The image shows a person with brown curly hair and a light skin tone, smiling broadly with visible teeth. The person is shirtless, positioned against a light blue background with white and light brown horizontal stripes. In the bottom right corner, there is black pixelated text reading "HAWT!<3". The image has a low-resolution, pixelated appearance typical of early 2000s digital graphics. The person's hair is voluminous and slightly tousled. The background appears to be a blurred outdoor or poolside setting with light blue and white tones.

Description

A pixelated image of a person with brown curly hair smiling, wearing no shirt, with a light blue background and text reading "HAWT!<3" at the bottom right.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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  • 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

Mood

  • happy
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown curly hair smiling shirtless
  • HAWT!<3 pixelated text
  • light blue background pixelated image
  • smiling person brown hair

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • digital graphics

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • HAWT!<3

Wordwall

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  • smiling
  • shirtless
  • light blue background
  • HAWT!<3 text
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • light skin tone
  • white stripes
  • tousled hair
  • outdoor setting
  • blurred background
  • visible teeth
  • light brown stripes
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 12:39 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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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
200708221152191296006086
Archive entry
200708221152191296006086.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 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#200708221152191296006086.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708221152191296006086.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016