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Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and sunglasses holding a microphone, next to repeated red text on black background.

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Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and sunglasses holding a microphone, next to repeated red text on black background.

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split vertical composition
  • left figure, right text

Dense Caption

Left side shows pixelated figure with brown shoulder-length hair wearing dark sunglasses and white collared shirt; mouth open as if speaking into silver-and-black microphone held near face. Right side displays five identical lines of bright red 'EEW!' text in blocky digital font against solid black background, each line vertically aligned and evenly spaced.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and sunglasses holding a microphone, next to repeated red text on black 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: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown hair sunglasses microphone eew
  • pixelated person eew text
  • microphone holder bright red eew
  • split composition brown hair black background

Visible Text

  • EEW!

Visually Supported Entities

  • person holding microphone

Wordwall

  • brown shoulder-length hair
  • dark sunglasses
  • white collared shirt
  • silver-and-black microphone
  • bright red text
  • blocky digital font
  • solid black background
  • five identical lines

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2007102614040031023265
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/38/38e52bdf40c98549609a3eb59b26a148628374e63c8198521b606c73ab23765c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 UTC
Archive ID
38e52bdf40c98549
SHA-256
38e52bdf40c98549609a3eb59b26a148628374e63c8198521b606c73ab23765c
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:43 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.148128

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and sunglasses holding a microphone, next to repeated red text on black background.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 12:51 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
5,878 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,146, response 581

Review tags

  • holding microphone (action, 0.80)
  • speaking (action, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • expressive (mood, 0.80)
  • repetitive (mood, 0.80)
  • microphone (object, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • digital art (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person holding microphone (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding microphone
  • speaking

Colors

  • brown
  • dark gray
  • white
  • silver
  • black
  • bright red

Composition

  • split vertical composition
  • left figure, right text

Dense Caption

Left side shows pixelated figure with brown shoulder-length hair wearing dark sunglasses and white collared shirt; mouth open as if speaking into silver-and-black microphone held near face. Right side displays five identical lines of bright red 'EEW!' text in blocky digital font against solid black background, each line vertically aligned and evenly spaced.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and sunglasses holding a microphone, next to repeated red text on black 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: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • expressive
  • repetitive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown hair sunglasses microphone eew
  • pixelated person eew text
  • microphone holder bright red eew
  • split composition brown hair black background

Objects

  • microphone

Style

  • pixelated
  • digital art
  • blocky text

Subjects

  • person holding microphone

Visible Text

  • EEW!

Visually Supported Entities

  • person holding microphone

Wordwall

  • brown shoulder-length hair
  • dark sunglasses
  • white collared shirt
  • silver-and-black microphone
  • bright red text
  • blocky digital font
  • solid black background
  • five identical lines
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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
2007102614040031023265
Archive entry
2007102614040031023265.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 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#2007102614040031023265.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2007102614040031023265.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016