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Pixelated image of a person with dark hair wearing sunglasses and red clothing, surrounded by blue text on black background.

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Pixelated image of a person with dark hair wearing sunglasses and red clothing, surrounded by blue text on black background.

Pixelated image of a person with dark hair wearing sunglasses and red clothing, surrounded by blue text on black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archiv…

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Animation Summary

  • no visible animation changes; source metadata claims 'animated' but pixels show static image

Composition

  • portrait on left
  • text blocks on right and bottom

Dense Caption

Pixelated portrait shows individual with brown hair, dark-tinted sunglasses covering eyes, mouth open in mid-expression. Person wears red collar or shoulder detail over light-colored garment. Background is solid black. Four distinct blocks of cyan-blue pixelated text: top-right "Pete Lewis", bottom-left "Kingston", bottom-right "Wentz III". Text uses blocky digital font with slight horizontal distortion. Image has low-resolution, dithered appearance typical of early 2000s web graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with dark hair wearing sunglasses and red clothing, surrounded by blue text on black background.

Metadata Contradicted By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • animated
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Named Entities

  • Pete Lewis
  • Kingston
  • Wentz III

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown hair sunglasses person
  • Pete Lewis Wentz III Kingston text
  • cyan blue pixelated text blocks
  • low resolution web graphic portrait

Preprocessing Notes

  • image contains no animation frames; source metadata claims 'animated' but pixels show static image

Visible Text

  • Pete Lewis
  • Kingston
  • Wentz III

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • dark-tinted sunglasses
  • mouth open
  • red collar detail
  • light-colored garment
  • solid black background
  • cyan-blue text
  • blocky digital font
  • horizontal text distortion
  • low-resolution pixelation

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071101214009419493669
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 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/01/016765f440c4ad7ff620f01b14a5a18eb0cb253c501f09d6c96792b902e3fb75.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 UTC
Archive ID
016765f440c4ad7f
SHA-256
016765f440c4ad7ff620f01b14a5a18eb0cb253c501f09d6c96792b902e3fb75
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 28, 2026 at 14:21 UTC
Run
1201
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000485

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.000485falseharassment0.000030falsesexual0.000016falseviolence/graphic0.000010falseillicit0.000007falseself-harm0.000004falsehate0.000002falseharassment/threatening0.000002falseself-harm/intent0.000001falseillicit/violent0.000001falsesexual/minors0.000000falseself-harm/instructions0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000false

Qwen scheduling evidence

Evidence strength is retained for queueing and audit. It does not set the public content-safety verdict.

EvidenceStrengthInputenrichment/visual/violence0.500000image
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:10 UTC
Run
105
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.022949

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.022949falseself-harm0.000473falseself-harm/intent0.000215falseviolence/graphic0.000047falsesexual0.000035falseself-harm/instructions0.000002falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 22, 2026 at 05:34 UTC
Run
89
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.127714

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.934021onnx/unsafe0.127714onnx/nsfw0.076659onnx/nsfl0.051055
Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated image of a person with dark hair wearing sunglasses and red clothing, surrounded by blue text on black background.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 14:17 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,289 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 599

Review tags

  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • cyan blue (color, 0.80)
  • dark tinted (color, 0.80)
  • light colored (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • light colored garment (object, 0.80)
  • red collar detail (object, 0.80)
  • blocky digital font (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution web graphic (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person with brown hair (subject, 0.80)
  • sunglasses wearing individual (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • no visible animation changes; source metadata claims 'animated' but pixels show static image

Colors

  • brown
  • dark-tinted
  • red
  • light-colored
  • cyan-blue
  • black

Composition

  • portrait on left
  • text blocks on right and bottom

Dense Caption

Pixelated portrait shows individual with brown hair, dark-tinted sunglasses covering eyes, mouth open in mid-expression. Person wears red collar or shoulder detail over light-colored garment. Background is solid black. Four distinct blocks of cyan-blue pixelated text: top-right "Pete Lewis", bottom-left "Kingston", bottom-right "Wentz III". Text uses blocky digital font with slight horizontal distortion. Image has low-resolution, dithered appearance typical of early 2000s web graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with dark hair wearing sunglasses and red clothing, surrounded by blue text on black background.

Metadata Contradicted By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • animated
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Named Entities

  • Pete Lewis
  • Kingston
  • Wentz III

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown hair sunglasses person
  • Pete Lewis Wentz III Kingston text
  • cyan blue pixelated text blocks
  • low resolution web graphic portrait

Objects

  • red collar detail
  • light-colored garment

Preprocessing Notes

  • image contains no animation frames; source metadata claims 'animated' but pixels show static image

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky digital font
  • low-resolution web graphic

Subjects

  • person with brown hair
  • sunglasses-wearing individual

Visible Text

  • Pete Lewis
  • Kingston
  • Wentz III

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • dark-tinted sunglasses
  • mouth open
  • red collar detail
  • light-colored garment
  • solid black background
  • cyan-blue text
  • blocky digital font
  • horizontal text distortion
  • low-resolution pixelation
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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
20071101214009419493669
Archive entry
20071101214009419493669.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 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#20071101214009419493669.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071101214009419493669.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016