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A pixelated image of a red-haired figure holding a yellow object, with partial text overlays reading "m in th" and "of Miser" against a dark background.

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A pixelated image of a red-haired figure holding a yellow object, with partial text overlays reading "m in th" and "of Miser" against a dark background.

A pixelated image of a red-haired figure holding a yellow object, with partial text overlays reading "m in th" and "of Miser" against a dark background. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM bud…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • cropped
  • text overlay
  • gray rectangle on right

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated figure with bright red hair holding a yellow cylindrical object in their right hand. The figure's face is partially visible, showing a neutral expression with closed eyes. White text with black outlines overlays the image: the top portion reads "m in th" and the bottom portion reads "of Miser". The background is solid black. The image appears to be a cropped section of a larger composition, with a gray rectangular area visible on the right side. The figure's hair is styled in a straight manner, and the yellow object is held close to the figure's face. The text appears to be part of a larger phrase that is not fully visible in the image.

Description

A pixelated image of a red-haired figure holding a yellow object, with partial text overlays reading "m in th" and "of Miser" against a dark 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red hair yellow object
  • m in th of Miser
  • pixelated figure text overlay
  • gray rectangle black background

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears cropped with gray area on right

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

Style

  • text overlay

Visible Text

  • m in th
  • of Miser

Wordwall

  • red hair
  • yellow object
  • closed eyes
  • white text
  • black background
  • pixelated
  • gray rectangle
  • neutral expression
  • cylindrical object
  • text overlay

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081015201653787639280
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
4.5 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/3c/3cf092d10110a0c357290617e871f87552ec1dfa513da483d9421c55f151188e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 UTC
Archive ID
3cf092d10110a0c3
SHA-256
3cf092d10110a0c357290617e871f87552ec1dfa513da483d9421c55f151188e
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:47 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.109191

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.940312onnx/unsafe0.109191onnx/nsfw0.080105onnx/nsfl0.029086
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A pixelated image of a red-haired figure holding a yellow object, with partial text overlays reading "m in th" and "of Miser" against a dark background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 04:19 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,194 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 799

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • yellow cylindrical object (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text overlay (style, 0.80)
  • red haired figure (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding

Colors

  • red
  • yellow
  • black
  • gray
  • white

Composition

  • cropped
  • text overlay
  • gray rectangle on right

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated figure with bright red hair holding a yellow cylindrical object in their right hand. The figure's face is partially visible, showing a neutral expression with closed eyes. White text with black outlines overlays the image: the top portion reads "m in th" and the bottom portion reads "of Miser". The background is solid black. The image appears to be a cropped section of a larger composition, with a gray rectangular area visible on the right side. The figure's hair is styled in a straight manner, and the yellow object is held close to the figure's face. The text appears to be part of a larger phrase that is not fully visible in the image.

Description

A pixelated image of a red-haired figure holding a yellow object, with partial text overlays reading "m in th" and "of Miser" against a dark 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red hair yellow object
  • m in th of Miser
  • pixelated figure text overlay
  • gray rectangle black background

Objects

  • yellow cylindrical object

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears cropped with gray area on right

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • text overlay

Subjects

  • red-haired figure

Visible Text

  • m in th
  • of Miser

Wordwall

  • red hair
  • yellow object
  • closed eyes
  • white text
  • black background
  • pixelated
  • gray rectangle
  • neutral expression
  • cylindrical object
  • text overlay
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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
20081015201653787639280
Archive entry
20081015201653787639280.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 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#20081015201653787639280.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081015201653787639280.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016