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Pixelated image of a dark-haired figure with red accents against a dark background, featuring a green banner with blue text reading "wow!" at the bottom.

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Pixelated image of a dark-haired figure with red accents against a dark background, featuring a green banner with blue text reading "wow!" at the bottom.

Pixelated image of a dark-haired figure with red accents against a dark background, featuring a green banner with blue text reading "wow!" at the bottom. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central figure
  • green banner at bottom

Dense Caption

The image is a low-resolution pixelated static icon. The central figure has dark hair and dark clothing with red accents on the arms and legs. The background is dark and indistinct. At the bottom, a bright green rectangular banner contains the text "wow!" in blue pixelated letters. The figure appears to be in a dynamic pose with limbs extended. The overall style is retro digital with visible pixelation.

Description

Pixelated image of a dark-haired figure with red accents against a dark background, featuring a green banner with blue text reading "wow!" at the bottom.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated figure wow banner
  • dark-haired red accents wow text
  • green banner blue text static icon
  • dynamic pose wow banner

Preprocessing Notes

  • image is pixelated

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Subjects

  • figure

Visible Text

  • wow!

Wordwall

  • dark-haired figure
  • red accents
  • dark background
  • green banner
  • blue text
  • pixelated
  • dynamic pose
  • low-resolution
  • static icon
  • "wow!" text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200807040517551913141508
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
3 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/36/3694f594fe625a3dc907b03cab93a2b4c16bb9b210000a27cbe4815566521626.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 UTC
Archive ID
3694f594fe625a3d
SHA-256
3694f594fe625a3dc907b03cab93a2b4c16bb9b210000a27cbe4815566521626
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 8, 2026 at 23:13 UTC
Run
1275
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.199551

OpenAI category scores

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onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:40 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.211196

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated image of a dark-haired figure with red accents against a dark background, featuring a green banner with blue text reading "wow!" at the bottom.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 10:29 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,042 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,094, response 729

Review tags

  • posing (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • dark (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • excited (mood, 0.80)
  • banner (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • figure (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • posing

Colors

  • dark
  • red
  • green
  • blue
  • white

Composition

  • central figure
  • green banner at bottom

Dense Caption

The image is a low-resolution pixelated static icon. The central figure has dark hair and dark clothing with red accents on the arms and legs. The background is dark and indistinct. At the bottom, a bright green rectangular banner contains the text "wow!" in blue pixelated letters. The figure appears to be in a dynamic pose with limbs extended. The overall style is retro digital with visible pixelation.

Description

Pixelated image of a dark-haired figure with red accents against a dark background, featuring a green banner with blue text reading "wow!" at the bottom.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • excited

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated figure wow banner
  • dark-haired red accents wow text
  • green banner blue text static icon
  • dynamic pose wow banner

Objects

  • banner

Preprocessing Notes

  • image is pixelated

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • figure

Visible Text

  • wow!

Wordwall

  • dark-haired figure
  • red accents
  • dark background
  • green banner
  • blue text
  • pixelated
  • dynamic pose
  • low-resolution
  • static icon
  • "wow!" text
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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
200807040517551913141508
Archive entry
200807040517551913141508.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 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#200807040517551913141508.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200807040517551913141508.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016