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Pixelated image of a character in a red and yellow costume with a black mask, set against a fiery background, with text on a red field.

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Pixelated image of a character in a red and yellow costume with a black mask, set against a fiery background, with text on a red field.

Pixelated image of a character in a red and yellow costume with a black mask, set against a fiery background, with text on a red field. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Inte…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four-section layout
  • character in top-left
  • text in top-right, bottom-left, bottom-right

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated character with black hair, wearing a black mask covering the eyes, a red and yellow costume with a black emblem on the chest, and a red scarf. The background behind the character is a fiery orange and yellow pattern. The character's expression is a slight smile. The image is divided into four sections on a solid red background: top-left contains the character, top-right has the text 'who says', bottom-left has 'that i cant be', and bottom-right has 'a super hero !!'. The text is black, pixelated, and uses a blocky font. The overall style is low-resolution digital art with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a character in a red and yellow costume with a black mask, set against a fiery background, with text on a red field.

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: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • super hero text
  • character mask costume
  • red background pixelated text
  • who says that i cant be
  • a super hero
  • fiery background character
  • blocky font text
  • low-resolution digital art

Visible Text

  • who says
  • that i cant be
  • a super hero !!

Wordwall

  • character in red and yellow costume
  • black mask
  • fiery orange-yellow background
  • red scarf
  • black emblem on chest
  • slight smile
  • solid red background
  • pixelated text
  • blocky font
  • four-section layout
  • top-left character
  • top-right text
  • bottom-left text
  • bottom-right text
  • text: who says
  • text: that i cant be
  • text: a super hero !!
  • low-resolution digital art
  • visible pixelation
  • red background sections

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200909081046161720631412
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.3 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/37/3783f4dbc08f2f9802253e1cf3c8369e40f0d44f4aa608ba5f93d2656e70301e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 UTC
Archive ID
3783f4dbc08f2f98
SHA-256
3783f4dbc08f2f9802253e1cf3c8369e40f0d44f4aa608ba5f93d2656e70301e
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:41 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.125552

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image of a character in a red and yellow costume with a black mask, set against a fiery background, with text on a red field.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 17:40 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
11,806 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 833

Review tags

  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • confident (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • costume (object, 0.80)
  • emblem (object, 0.80)
  • mask (object, 0.80)
  • scarf (object, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution digital art (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling

Colors

  • red
  • yellow
  • orange
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • four-section layout
  • character in top-left
  • text in top-right, bottom-left, bottom-right

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated character with black hair, wearing a black mask covering the eyes, a red and yellow costume with a black emblem on the chest, and a red scarf. The background behind the character is a fiery orange and yellow pattern. The character's expression is a slight smile. The image is divided into four sections on a solid red background: top-left contains the character, top-right has the text 'who says', bottom-left has 'that i cant be', and bottom-right has 'a super hero !!'. The text is black, pixelated, and uses a blocky font. The overall style is low-resolution digital art with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a character in a red and yellow costume with a black mask, set against a fiery background, with text on a red field.

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: buddy-icons

Mood

  • confident
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • character mask costume
  • red background pixelated text
  • who says that i cant be
  • a super hero
  • fiery background character
  • blocky font text
  • low-resolution digital art

Objects

  • mask
  • costume
  • scarf
  • emblem
  • text

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution digital art
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • character

Visible Text

  • who says
  • that i cant be
  • a super hero !!

Wordwall

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  • black mask
  • fiery orange-yellow background
  • red scarf
  • black emblem on chest
  • slight smile
  • solid red background
  • pixelated text
  • blocky font
  • four-section layout
  • top-left character
  • top-right text
  • bottom-left text
  • bottom-right text
  • text: who says
  • text: that i cant be
  • text: a super hero !!
  • low-resolution digital art
  • visible pixelation
  • red background sections
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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
200909081046161720631412
Archive entry
200909081046161720631412.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 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#200909081046161720631412.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200909081046161720631412.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016