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Pixelated grayscale portrait of a person with dark hair and closed eyes, overlaid by yellow text on black background.

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Pixelated grayscale portrait of a person with dark hair and closed eyes, overlaid by yellow text on black background.

Pixelated grayscale portrait of a person with dark hair and closed eyes, overlaid by yellow text on black background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sh…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up face
  • text overlay bottom

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixel art image shows a close-up of a person's face with short dark hair; the figure has closed eyes and neutral expression. The lower portion features bold yellow block letters spelling "MCDREAMY" on solid black horizontal bar. Background is textured gray gradient. Image exhibits low-resolution digital rendering typical of early 2000s instant messaging icons.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale portrait of a person with dark hair and closed eyes, overlaid by yellow text on black background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200806130604461584529168
  • franksicons
  • celebrities

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Named Entities

  • MCDREAMY

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale portrait yellow text MCDREAMY
  • closed eyes dark hair pixel art
  • text overlay bottom grayscale icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • low-resolution digital rendering typical of early 2000s instant messaging icons

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Visible Text

  • MCDREAMY

Visually Supported Entities

  • MCDREAMY

Wordwall

  • grayscale portrait
  • closed eyes
  • dark hair
  • yellow text
  • black background
  • pixelated
  • MCDREAMY
  • text on bar

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200806130604461584529168
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:29 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.7 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/3d/3d02c818f097745f845c84e6928b92d0ed1e7159b73e342306d44fe5cad95fe7.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:29 UTC
Archive ID
3d02c818f097745f
SHA-256
3d02c818f097745f845c84e6928b92d0ed1e7159b73e342306d44fe5cad95fe7
Content-safety assessments (1)
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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
0.066553

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated grayscale portrait of a person with dark hair and closed eyes, overlaid by yellow text on black background.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 05:38 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,182 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,095, response 687

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • block text (style, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • gray
  • black
  • yellow

Composition

  • close-up face
  • text overlay bottom

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixel art image shows a close-up of a person's face with short dark hair; the figure has closed eyes and neutral expression. The lower portion features bold yellow block letters spelling "MCDREAMY" on solid black horizontal bar. Background is textured gray gradient. Image exhibits low-resolution digital rendering typical of early 2000s instant messaging icons.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale portrait of a person with dark hair and closed eyes, overlaid by yellow text on black background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200806130604461584529168
  • franksicons
  • celebrities

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Named Entities

  • MCDREAMY

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale portrait yellow text MCDREAMY
  • closed eyes dark hair pixel art
  • text overlay bottom grayscale icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • low-resolution digital rendering typical of early 2000s instant messaging icons

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Style

  • pixel art
  • grayscale
  • block text

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • MCDREAMY

Visually Supported Entities

  • MCDREAMY

Wordwall

  • grayscale portrait
  • closed eyes
  • dark hair
  • yellow text
  • black background
  • pixelated
  • MCDREAMY
  • text on bar
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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
200806130604461584529168
Archive entry
200806130604461584529168.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:29 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#200806130604461584529168.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200806130604461584529168.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016