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Pixelated image of a dark figure with a helmet on the left, red background with partial text on the right.

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Pixelated image of a dark figure with a helmet on the left, red background with partial text on the right.

Pixelated image of a dark figure with a helmet on the left, red background with partial text on the right. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shar…

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Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split composition
  • left figure
  • right text

Dense Caption

Left side shows a pixelated dark figure wearing a helmet with a white top and black lower face area, featuring visible teeth and a mouth grille. Right side has a solid red background with black pixelated text reading "The" on the top line and "ar Wars cl" on the bottom line. The image uses a low-resolution, blocky pixel art style with high contrast between black, white, and red colors. The figure's helmet has a smooth curved top and angular side details. The text appears to be cut off on the right edge.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a dark figure with a helmet on the left, red background with partial text on the right.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: aim

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • darth vader pixel art
  • star wars club icon
  • red background pixel art
  • cut off text star wars

Visible Text

  • The
  • ar Wars cl

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • dark figure
  • helmet
  • white top
  • black face
  • teeth
  • mouth grille
  • red background
  • black text
  • The
  • ar Wars cl
  • low-resolution
  • blocky
  • high contrast
  • cut-off text
  • smooth curved top
  • angular side details

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
201104081426401222563300
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:08 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.8 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/2f/2ff40d1c05010340667c792694faaf05bfe39ba398d35fecf4fb97499940a3e2.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:08 UTC
Archive ID
2ff40d1c05010340
SHA-256
2ff40d1c05010340667c792694faaf05bfe39ba398d35fecf4fb97499940a3e2
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:33 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.102786

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated image of a dark figure with a helmet on the left, red background with partial text on the right.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 23:45 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,533 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,145, response 694

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • menacing (mood, 0.80)
  • mysterious (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • dark figure (subject, 0.80)
  • helmet (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • red

Composition

  • split composition
  • left figure
  • right text

Dense Caption

Left side shows a pixelated dark figure wearing a helmet with a white top and black lower face area, featuring visible teeth and a mouth grille. Right side has a solid red background with black pixelated text reading "The" on the top line and "ar Wars cl" on the bottom line. The image uses a low-resolution, blocky pixel art style with high contrast between black, white, and red colors. The figure's helmet has a smooth curved top and angular side details. The text appears to be cut off on the right edge.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a dark figure with a helmet on the left, red background with partial text on the right.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: aim

Mood

  • menacing
  • mysterious

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • darth vader pixel art
  • star wars club icon
  • red background pixel art
  • cut off text star wars

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • blocky

Subjects

  • dark figure
  • helmet

Visible Text

  • The
  • ar Wars cl

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • dark figure
  • helmet
  • white top
  • black face
  • teeth
  • mouth grille
  • red background
  • black text
  • The
  • ar Wars cl
  • low-resolution
  • blocky
  • high contrast
  • cut-off text
  • smooth curved top
  • angular side details
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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
201104081426401222563300
Archive entry
201104081426401222563300.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:08 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#201104081426401222563300.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#201104081426401222563300.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016