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Black-and-white image of a person with long hair covering their face, next to text reading 'when will i see you again?' on black background.

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Black-and-white image of a person with long hair covering their face, next to text reading 'when will i see you again?' on black background.

Black-and-white image of a person with long hair covering their face, next to text reading 'when will i see you again?' on black background. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split composition: left image, right text
  • cropped upper body on left
  • text occupies right half of frame

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixelated image shows partial figure with light-colored hooded garment and long flowing hair obscuring facial features. Left side displays cropped upper body; right side contains white blocky text on solid black background. Text reads "when will i see you again?" in three lines, each word or phrase separated by line breaks. Hair appears to be covering eyes and mouth area of the figure. Image has low-resolution pixelation typical of early digital media.

Description

  • Black-and-white image of a person with long hair covering their face, next to text reading 'when will i see you again?' on black background.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200807161819251260622355
  • FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale buddy icon long hair obscured face
  • blocky text when will i see you again
  • hooded figure pixelated image
  • black background white text melancholic

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be a still frame from an animation; no visible motion changes detected in this single observation

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

  • when will i see you again?

Visually Supported Entities

  • person with long hair
  • hooded figure

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • hooded garment
  • long hair
  • obscured face
  • blocky text
  • black background
  • pixelated image
  • text: when will i see you again?
  • three-line layout

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200807161819251260622355
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.9 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/24/24077ead1e07f601910ffe25c4ab6ff6475f9ac225cdb2d62c5b7ee4d440fcec.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 UTC
Archive ID
24077ead1e07f601
SHA-256
24077ead1e07f601910ffe25c4ab6ff6475f9ac225cdb2d62c5b7ee4d440fcec
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 8, 2026 at 01:42 UTC
Run
1275
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.021661

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:21 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.228425

OpenAI category scores

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Black-and-white image of a person with long hair covering their face, next to text reading 'when will i see you again?' on black background.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 12:45 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,028 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,141, response 829

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • melancholic (mood, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • questioning (mood, 0.80)
  • hair (object, 0.80)
  • hooded garment (object, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • hooded figure (subject, 0.80)
  • person with long hair (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • split composition: left image, right text
  • cropped upper body on left
  • text occupies right half of frame

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixelated image shows partial figure with light-colored hooded garment and long flowing hair obscuring facial features. Left side displays cropped upper body; right side contains white blocky text on solid black background. Text reads "when will i see you again?" in three lines, each word or phrase separated by line breaks. Hair appears to be covering eyes and mouth area of the figure. Image has low-resolution pixelation typical of early digital media.

Description

  • Black-and-white image of a person with long hair covering their face, next to text reading 'when will i see you again?' on black background.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200807161819251260622355
  • FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Mood

  • melancholic
  • nostalgic
  • questioning

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale buddy icon long hair obscured face
  • blocky text when will i see you again
  • hooded figure pixelated image
  • black background white text melancholic

Objects

  • hooded garment
  • hair

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be a still frame from an animation; no visible motion changes detected in this single observation

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

  • pixelated
  • blocky text
  • grayscale

Subjects

  • person with long hair
  • hooded figure

Visible Text

  • when will i see you again?

Visually Supported Entities

  • person with long hair
  • hooded figure

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • hooded garment
  • long hair
  • obscured face
  • blocky text
  • black background
  • pixelated image
  • text: when will i see you again?
  • three-line layout
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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
200807161819251260622355
Archive entry
200807161819251260622355.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 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#200807161819251260622355.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200807161819251260622355.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016