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A grayscale pixelated image shows a character with dark hair and light skin, accompanied by four lines of distorted text below.

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • top: face, bottom: text lines

Dense Caption

The image is a static 8-bit style icon. The top portion features a stylized face with dark hair on the left side and light skin tones; facial details are obscured by heavy pixelation. Below the face, four horizontal lines of text appear in a blocky font: 'i can believe', 'that you don't', 'matter how much', 'you've hurt me'. The background is solid white. Text characters show partial distortion with missing or misaligned pixels; no other objects or colors are present.

Description

  • A grayscale pixelated image shows a character with dark hair and light skin, accompanied by four lines of distorted text below.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • 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
  • 20080329192355344840401
  • franksicons

Metadata Supported By Image

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixelated icon dark hair light skin text four lines somber mood
  • blocky font solid white background face text lines

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution with heavy pixelation

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Visible Text

  • i can believe
  • that you don't
  • matter how much
  • you've hurt me

Visually Supported Entities

  • face with dark hair and light skin

Wordwall

  • grayscale pixelated icon
  • dark hair on left side of face
  • light skin tones
  • four lines of text below face
  • blocky font style
  • solid white background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080329192355344840401
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.6 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/1f/1f79bb309657b17abd9584b2c794949bba081276aa7d5cc01c7beda3e56a532d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 UTC
Archive ID
1f79bb309657b17a
SHA-256
1f79bb309657b17abd9584b2c794949bba081276aa7d5cc01c7beda3e56a532d
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:16 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.072573

OpenAI category scores

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A grayscale pixelated image shows a character with dark hair and light skin, accompanied by four lines of distorted text below.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 21:24 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
13,153 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,090, response 753

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • melancholic (mood, 0.80)
  • somber (mood, 0.80)
  • 8 bit pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • face with dark hair and light skin (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • top: face, bottom: text lines

Dense Caption

The image is a static 8-bit style icon. The top portion features a stylized face with dark hair on the left side and light skin tones; facial details are obscured by heavy pixelation. Below the face, four horizontal lines of text appear in a blocky font: 'i can believe', 'that you don't', 'matter how much', 'you've hurt me'. The background is solid white. Text characters show partial distortion with missing or misaligned pixels; no other objects or colors are present.

Description

  • A grayscale pixelated image shows a character with dark hair and light skin, accompanied by four lines of distorted text below.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • 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
  • 20080329192355344840401
  • franksicons

Metadata Supported By Image

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

Mood

  • somber
  • melancholic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixelated icon dark hair light skin text four lines somber mood
  • blocky font solid white background face text lines

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution with heavy pixelation

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Style

  • 8-bit pixel art
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • face with dark hair and light skin

Visible Text

  • i can believe
  • that you don't
  • matter how much
  • you've hurt me

Visually Supported Entities

  • face with dark hair and light skin

Wordwall

  • grayscale pixelated icon
  • dark hair on left side of face
  • light skin tones
  • four lines of text below face
  • blocky font style
  • solid white background
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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
20080329192355344840401
Archive entry
20080329192355344840401.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 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#20080329192355344840401.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080329192355344840401.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016