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Pixelated image of a man's face with cyan text overlay reading SPARKY SPARKY BOOM MAN against dark background.

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Pixelated image of a man's face with cyan text overlay reading SPARKY SPARKY BOOM MAN against dark background.

Pixelated image of a man's face with cyan text overlay reading SPARKY SPARKY BOOM MAN against dark background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bu…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text overlaid on face
  • centered text
  • face fills frame

Dense Caption

Static pixel art depicts a grayscale human male face with visible ears, beard stubble, and neutral expression. Four lines of cyan blocky text are overlaid: 'SPARKY' on first line, 'SPARKY' on second line, 'BOOM' on third line, 'MAN' on fourth line. Background is dark blue-gray gradient. Text uses 8-bit style font with no serifs or curves. Image has low resolution and visible pixelation throughout.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a man's face with cyan text overlay reading SPARKY SPARKY BOOM MAN against dark 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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071104143933617980899

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan text sparky sparky boom man
  • pixelated face cyan text
  • grayscale human male face blocky font
  • dark background four line text

Style

  • 8-bit style

Visible Text

  • SPARKY
  • BOOM
  • MAN

Visually Supported Entities

  • human male face

Wordwall

  • cyan text
  • grayscale face
  • beard stubble
  • pixelated art
  • blocky font
  • four lines of text
  • dark background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071104143933617980899
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:53 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.4 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/2d/2d820caf0d4c0f5668906ff8184b1faa689a204fe40ec7b8738ae1df83d7a74e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:53 UTC
Archive ID
2d820caf0d4c0f56
SHA-256
2d820caf0d4c0f5668906ff8184b1faa689a204fe40ec7b8738ae1df83d7a74e
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:31 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.064372

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image of a man's face with cyan text overlay reading SPARKY SPARKY BOOM MAN against dark background.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 15:11 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,772 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,090, response 657

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • dark blue gray (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • 8 bit style (style, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • human male face (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • gray
  • dark blue-gray

Composition

  • text overlaid on face
  • centered text
  • face fills frame

Dense Caption

Static pixel art depicts a grayscale human male face with visible ears, beard stubble, and neutral expression. Four lines of cyan blocky text are overlaid: 'SPARKY' on first line, 'SPARKY' on second line, 'BOOM' on third line, 'MAN' on fourth line. Background is dark blue-gray gradient. Text uses 8-bit style font with no serifs or curves. Image has low resolution and visible pixelation throughout.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a man's face with cyan text overlay reading SPARKY SPARKY BOOM MAN against dark 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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071104143933617980899

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan text sparky sparky boom man
  • pixelated face cyan text
  • grayscale human male face blocky font
  • dark background four line text

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit style
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • human male face

Visible Text

  • SPARKY
  • BOOM
  • MAN

Visually Supported Entities

  • human male face

Wordwall

  • cyan text
  • grayscale face
  • beard stubble
  • pixelated art
  • blocky font
  • four lines of text
  • dark 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
20071104143933617980899
Archive entry
20071104143933617980899.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:53 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#20071104143933617980899.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071104143933617980899.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016