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Pixelated image of a person in a cowboy hat and tank top with red text on black backgrounds.

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Pixelated image of a person in a cowboy hat and tank top with red text on black backgrounds.

Pixelated image of a person in a cowboy hat and tank top with red text on black backgrounds. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • top-left: figure
  • bottom-left: text
  • top-right: text
  • bottom-right: solid color

Dense Caption

The icon is divided into four quadrants. Top-left quadrant shows a pixelated figure wearing a light-colored cowboy hat, white tank top, and pearl necklace against a bright background. Bottom-left quadrant contains red pixelated text "Than As Your Girl" on black. Top-right quadrant displays red pixelated text "I'm Better As A Memory" on black. Bottom-right is solid gray. The image uses low-resolution pixel art style with limited color palette.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person in a cowboy hat and tank top with red text on black backgrounds.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200806231127211808685259
  • FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Named Entities

  • cowboy hat
  • tank top
  • pearl necklace

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cowboy hat tank top pearl necklace text four quadrant
  • red text black background gray square pixel art
  • I'm Better As A Memory Than As Your Girl
  • person wearing cowboy hat text layout

Visible Text

  • I'm Better As A Memory
  • Than As Your Girl

Visually Supported Entities

  • person wearing cowboy hat
  • person in tank top
  • person with pearl necklace

Wordwall

  • cowboy hat
  • tank top
  • pearl necklace
  • red text
  • black background
  • gray square
  • pixelated figure
  • four-quadrant layout

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200806231127211808685259
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:31 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/24/2447332285e009460e5489eeabc1bbd11732d43a8b9a07f38367a2726db6a8d2.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:31 UTC
Archive ID
2447332285e00946
SHA-256
2447332285e009460e5489eeabc1bbd11732d43a8b9a07f38367a2726db6a8d2
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 24, 2026 at 18:37 UTC
Run
1187
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.010251

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
0.125629

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image of a person in a cowboy hat and tank top with red text on black backgrounds.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 07:59 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,174 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 723

Review tags

  • black background (object, 0.80)
  • cowboy hat (object, 0.80)
  • gray square (object, 0.80)
  • pearl necklace (object, 0.80)
  • tank top (object, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
  • four quadrant layout (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • person in tank top (subject, 0.80)
  • person wearing cowboy hat (subject, 0.80)
  • person with pearl necklace (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • light brown
  • white
  • red
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • top-left: figure
  • bottom-left: text
  • top-right: text
  • bottom-right: solid color

Dense Caption

The icon is divided into four quadrants. Top-left quadrant shows a pixelated figure wearing a light-colored cowboy hat, white tank top, and pearl necklace against a bright background. Bottom-left quadrant contains red pixelated text "Than As Your Girl" on black. Top-right quadrant displays red pixelated text "I'm Better As A Memory" on black. Bottom-right is solid gray. The image uses low-resolution pixel art style with limited color palette.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person in a cowboy hat and tank top with red text on black backgrounds.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200806231127211808685259
  • FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Named Entities

  • cowboy hat
  • tank top
  • pearl necklace

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cowboy hat tank top pearl necklace text four quadrant
  • red text black background gray square pixel art
  • I'm Better As A Memory Than As Your Girl
  • person wearing cowboy hat text layout

Objects

  • cowboy hat
  • tank top
  • pearl necklace
  • text
  • black background
  • gray square

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • four-quadrant layout

Subjects

  • person wearing cowboy hat
  • person in tank top
  • person with pearl necklace

Visible Text

  • I'm Better As A Memory
  • Than As Your Girl

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  • person wearing cowboy hat
  • person in tank top
  • person with pearl necklace

Wordwall

  • cowboy hat
  • tank top
  • pearl necklace
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  • black background
  • gray square
  • pixelated figure
  • four-quadrant 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
200806231127211808685259
Archive entry
200806231127211808685259.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:31 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#200806231127211808685259.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200806231127211808685259.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016