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Pixelated image of a gray mailbox with red accents, displaying two black text boxes reading 'im' and 'sorry'.

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Pixelated image of a gray mailbox with red accents, displaying two black text boxes reading 'im' and 'sorry'.

Pixelated image of a gray mailbox with red accents, displaying two black text boxes reading 'im' and 'sorry'. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bud…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central mailbox
  • two speech bubbles stacked vertically

Dense Caption

The icon is a pixelated static image featuring a gray mailbox with visible red accents on the left side. Two black rectangular speech bubbles are overlaid: the top bubble contains lowercase white text 'im', and the bottom bubble displays uppercase white text 'SORRY'. The background is plain white, and the overall style is low-resolution digital art typical of early 2000s instant messaging icons.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a gray mailbox with red accents, displaying two black text boxes reading 'im' and 'sorry'.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200801181740201873740402

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • mailbox sorry icon
  • im sorry mailbox
  • pixelated mailbox text
  • gray red speech bubble icon

Objects

  • speech bubble

Visible Text

  • im
  • SORRY

Wordwall

  • gray mailbox
  • red accents
  • black speech bubbles
  • white text
  • 'im' text
  • 'SORRY' text
  • pixelated
  • static image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200801181740201873740402
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:10 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.9 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/3c/3c42caa4f3c1c08b0b9594a1f72277f5ce18f0c1e570001a556656df20845846.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:10 UTC
Archive ID
3c42caa4f3c1c08b
SHA-256
3c42caa4f3c1c08b0b9594a1f72277f5ce18f0c1e570001a556656df20845846
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:46 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.077349

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image of a gray mailbox with red accents, displaying two black text boxes reading 'im' and 'sorry'.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 11:16 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,511 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,096, response 616

Review tags

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  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • apologetic (mood, 0.80)
  • speech bubble (object, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution digital art (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • mailbox (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • gray
  • red
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • central mailbox
  • two speech bubbles stacked vertically

Dense Caption

The icon is a pixelated static image featuring a gray mailbox with visible red accents on the left side. Two black rectangular speech bubbles are overlaid: the top bubble contains lowercase white text 'im', and the bottom bubble displays uppercase white text 'SORRY'. The background is plain white, and the overall style is low-resolution digital art typical of early 2000s instant messaging icons.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a gray mailbox with red accents, displaying two black text boxes reading 'im' and 'sorry'.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200801181740201873740402

Mood

  • apologetic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • mailbox sorry icon
  • im sorry mailbox
  • pixelated mailbox text
  • gray red speech bubble icon

Objects

  • speech bubble
  • text

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution digital art

Subjects

  • mailbox

Visible Text

  • im
  • SORRY

Wordwall

  • gray mailbox
  • red accents
  • black speech bubbles
  • white text
  • 'im' text
  • 'SORRY' text
  • pixelated
  • static image
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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
200801181740201873740402
Archive entry
200801181740201873740402.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:10 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#200801181740201873740402.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200801181740201873740402.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016