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Black background with scattered cyan circles of varying sizes, white text reading "Im confused!" in two

Black background with scattered cyan circles of varying sizes, white text reading "Im confused!" in two. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • scattered elements
  • two text blocks

Dense Caption

Black background contains multiple cyan circles: some solid full circles (large and small), one large circle split into left half cyan and right half teal, and one medium circle split into top half cyan and bottom half teal. White pixelated text appears twice as "Im confused!" with exclamation mark; each instance is two lines where "Im" sits above "confused!". All elements are static.

Description

  • Black background with scattered cyan circles of varying sizes, white text reading "Im confused!" in two

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080222134547648401436

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan circles black background Im confused
  • pixelated text Im confused
  • split cyan teal circle
  • two Im confused

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected in any observation
  • quarantined description: Black background with scattered cyan circles of varying sizes, white text reading "Im confused!" in two rows.
  • quarantined retrieval: two rows Im confused

Source Metadata Interpretation

untrustedSourceHintsJson contains non-authoritative gallery metadata; no pixel evidence supports collection identity or provenance claims beyond visual content.

Style

  • text overlay

Visible Text

  • Im confused!

Wordwall

  • black background
  • cyan circles
  • teal circle segments
  • "Im confused!" text
  • pixelated font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080222134547648401436
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:15 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/2c/2c6c30f97cfe83eb6499611450f818d8304f6d0422fb0251915d22707d182505.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:15 UTC
Archive ID
2c6c30f97cfe83eb
SHA-256
2c6c30f97cfe83eb6499611450f818d8304f6d0422fb0251915d22707d182505
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:30 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.068896

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.933504onnx/unsafe0.068896onnx/nsfl0.035162onnx/nsfw0.033733
Enrichment records (1)
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Black background with scattered cyan circles of varying sizes, white text reading "Im confused!" in two

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 02:07 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,480 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 654

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • teal (color, 0.80)
  • confused (mood, 0.80)
  • cyan circles (object, 0.80)
  • split cyan teal circles (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • text overlay (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • cyan
  • teal

Composition

  • scattered elements
  • two text blocks

Dense Caption

Black background contains multiple cyan circles: some solid full circles (large and small), one large circle split into left half cyan and right half teal, and one medium circle split into top half cyan and bottom half teal. White pixelated text appears twice as "Im confused!" with exclamation mark; each instance is two lines where "Im" sits above "confused!". All elements are static.

Description

  • Black background with scattered cyan circles of varying sizes, white text reading "Im confused!" in two

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080222134547648401436

Mood

  • confused

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan circles black background Im confused
  • pixelated text Im confused
  • split cyan teal circle
  • two Im confused

Objects

  • cyan circles
  • split cyan-teal circles

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected in any observation
  • quarantined description: Black background with scattered cyan circles of varying sizes, white text reading "Im confused!" in two rows.
  • quarantined retrieval: two rows Im confused

Source Metadata Interpretation

untrustedSourceHintsJson contains non-authoritative gallery metadata; no pixel evidence supports collection identity or provenance claims beyond visual content.

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • text overlay

Visible Text

  • Im confused!

Wordwall

  • black background
  • cyan circles
  • teal circle segments
  • "Im confused!" text
  • pixelated font
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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
20080222134547648401436
Archive entry
20080222134547648401436.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:15 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#20080222134547648401436.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080222134547648401436.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016