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A pixelated image of a smiling man in a suit with a blue background, accompanied by text elements.

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A pixelated image of a smiling man in a suit with a blue background, accompanied by text elements.

A pixelated image of a smiling man in a suit with a blue background, accompanied by text elements. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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About this icon

Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • man on left
  • text on right
  • text below man

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated close-up of a smiling man with short graying hair, wearing a dark suit and white shirt. The background is solid bright blue. To the right of the man's image, the word "George" appears in black pixelated text. Below the man's image, the letter "u" is displayed in black pixelated text. To the right of the letter "u", the word "SUCK" is shown in black pixelated text. The entire composition is a static image with no visible animation.

Description

  • A pixelated image of a smiling man in a suit with a blue background, accompanied by text elements.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • George u SUCK
  • smiling man text
  • blue background text
  • pixelated man text

Style

  • text overlay

Visible Text

  • George
  • u
  • SUCK

Wordwall

  • pixelated image
  • smiling man
  • dark suit
  • white shirt
  • blue background
  • text "George"
  • text "u"
  • text "SUCK"

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708111809232112120718
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/38/383a7875325cabe14165087b982878709ae6aa95223c0f6e96a9488c26bf4f0c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 UTC
Archive ID
383a7875325cabe1
SHA-256
383a7875325cabe14165087b982878709ae6aa95223c0f6e96a9488c26bf4f0c
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:42 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.084256

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.929272onnx/unsafe0.084256onnx/nsfw0.046914onnx/nsfl0.037342
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A pixelated image of a smiling man in a suit with a blue background, accompanied by text elements.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 22:19 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,407 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 660

Review tags

  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • positive (mood, 0.80)
  • shirt (object, 0.80)
  • suit (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text overlay (style, 0.80)
  • man (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling

Colors

  • blue
  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • man on left
  • text on right
  • text below man

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated close-up of a smiling man with short graying hair, wearing a dark suit and white shirt. The background is solid bright blue. To the right of the man's image, the word "George" appears in black pixelated text. Below the man's image, the letter "u" is displayed in black pixelated text. To the right of the letter "u", the word "SUCK" is shown in black pixelated text. The entire composition is a static image with no visible animation.

Description

  • A pixelated image of a smiling man in a suit with a blue background, accompanied by text elements.

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

Mood

  • positive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • George u SUCK
  • smiling man text
  • blue background text
  • pixelated man text

Objects

  • suit
  • shirt

Style

  • pixelated
  • text overlay

Subjects

  • man

Visible Text

  • George
  • u
  • SUCK

Wordwall

  • pixelated image
  • smiling man
  • dark suit
  • white shirt
  • blue background
  • text "George"
  • text "u"
  • text "SUCK"
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 11:17 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
Raw JSON
Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
200708111809232112120718
Archive entry
200708111809232112120718.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 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#200708111809232112120718.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708111809232112120718.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016