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Pixelated image of a helmeted figure with a yellow background displaying text.

Pixelated image of a helmeted figure with a yellow background displaying text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2000s…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split background
  • left figure
  • right text

Dense Caption

Left side shows a pixelated, helmeted figure with a dark, featureless background. The figure has a metallic silver helmet with a smooth top and angular side details. The face is dark with visible metallic jaw and cheek details. Right side has a solid bright yellow background with black pixelated text reading "I LOVE YOU SIDNEY" in two lines. The text uses a blocky, retro digital font. The image is low-resolution with visible pixelation throughout.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a helmeted figure with a yellow background displaying text.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200708190416281722021514

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • helmeted figure yellow background
  • I LOVE YOU SIDNEY pixel art
  • retro digital text
  • buddy icon yellow black silver

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation observed

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

  • I LOVE YOU SIDNEY

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • helmeted figure
  • yellow background
  • black text
  • I LOVE YOU SIDNEY
  • blocky font
  • retro digital
  • dark background
  • metallic helmet
  • low-resolution

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708190416281722021514
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.8 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/12/12e14a8be862ef4d2326fc8e8b38aef7f44534dac6859a2919f2ba274543fcc6.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC
Archive ID
12e14a8be862ef4d
SHA-256
12e14a8be862ef4d2326fc8e8b38aef7f44534dac6859a2919f2ba274543fcc6
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 10, 2026 at 03:21 UTC
Run
1278
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000555

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:03 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.192832

OpenAI category scores

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

Pixelated image of a helmeted figure with a yellow background displaying text.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 02:01 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,586 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,144, response 716

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • silver (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • helmeted figure (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • yellow
  • black
  • silver

Composition

  • split background
  • left figure
  • right text

Dense Caption

Left side shows a pixelated, helmeted figure with a dark, featureless background. The figure has a metallic silver helmet with a smooth top and angular side details. The face is dark with visible metallic jaw and cheek details. Right side has a solid bright yellow background with black pixelated text reading "I LOVE YOU SIDNEY" in two lines. The text uses a blocky, retro digital font. The image is low-resolution with visible pixelation throughout.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a helmeted figure with a yellow background displaying text.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200708190416281722021514

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • affectionate
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • helmeted figure yellow background
  • I LOVE YOU SIDNEY pixel art
  • retro digital text
  • buddy icon yellow black silver

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation observed

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

  • pixel art
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • helmeted figure

Visible Text

  • I LOVE YOU SIDNEY

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • helmeted figure
  • yellow background
  • black text
  • I LOVE YOU SIDNEY
  • blocky font
  • retro digital
  • dark background
  • metallic helmet
  • low-resolution
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 12:09 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)
Raw JSON
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
200708190416281722021514
Archive entry
200708190416281722021514.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 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#200708190416281722021514.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708190416281722021514.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016