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A pixelated image of a person with brown hair in a blue shirt covering their face with hands, set against a green background with blue text on a black field.

A pixelated image of a person with brown hair in a blue shirt covering their face with hands, set against a green background with blue text on a black field. Animated 48×48 GIF AI…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • figure on left
  • text on right and below
  • green background behind figure
  • black background for text

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated figure with brown hair wearing a light blue short-sleeve shirt, covering their face with both hands. The background behind the figure is green and pixelated. To the right and below the figure, there is a black background with blue pixelated text. The text reads: 'I'm gonna r like a child their blanke', 'o get a mol Don't cry', 'e to be a t Don't cry', 'ig girls dor Don't cry'. The text appears to be partially cut off or misrendered. The overall style is low-resolution pixel art with a limited color palette.

Description

A pixelated image of a person with brown hair in a blue shirt covering their face with hands, set against a green background with blue text on a black field.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person brown hair light blue shirt covering face green background blue text
  • pixel art low-resolution text 'Don't cry'
  • text 'I'm gonna r like a child their blanke'
  • text 'o get a mol Don't cry'
  • text 'e to be a t Don't cry'
  • text 'ig girls dor Don't cry'
  • low-resolution pixel art blue text black background
  • green background pixelated figure

Visible Text

  • I'm gonna r like a child their blanke
  • o get a mol Don't cry
  • e to be a t Don't cry
  • ig girls dor Don't cry

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • light blue shirt
  • hands covering face
  • green background
  • black background
  • blue pixelated text
  • partially cut off text
  • low-resolution pixel art
  • limited color palette
  • text: 'I'm gonna r like a child their blanke'
  • text: 'o get a mol Don't cry'
  • text: 'e to be a t Don't cry'
  • text: 'ig girls dor Don't cry'

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070903092422814947715
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.9 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/3d/3d36c14094ab995ffa3804999bd4cd1fb48c9dd1d9fed6fd4ccfb0b88e6d2221.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 UTC
Archive ID
3d36c14094ab995f
SHA-256
3d36c14094ab995ffa3804999bd4cd1fb48c9dd1d9fed6fd4ccfb0b88e6d2221
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 28, 2026 at 19:42 UTC
Run
15954
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.036011

OpenAI category scores

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 3, 2026 at 14:48 UTC
Run
1262
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:47 UTC
Run
107
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A pixelated image of a person with brown hair in a blue shirt covering their face with hands, set against a green background with blue text on a black field.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 09:31 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,722 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,105, response 810

Review tags

  • covering face (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • anxious (mood, 0.80)
  • distressed (mood, 0.80)
  • hands (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • covering face

Colors

  • brown
  • light blue
  • green
  • black
  • blue

Composition

  • figure on left
  • text on right and below
  • green background behind figure
  • black background for text

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated figure with brown hair wearing a light blue short-sleeve shirt, covering their face with both hands. The background behind the figure is green and pixelated. To the right and below the figure, there is a black background with blue pixelated text. The text reads: 'I'm gonna r like a child their blanke', 'o get a mol Don't cry', 'e to be a t Don't cry', 'ig girls dor Don't cry'. The text appears to be partially cut off or misrendered. The overall style is low-resolution pixel art with a limited color palette.

Description

A pixelated image of a person with brown hair in a blue shirt covering their face with hands, set against a green background with blue text on a black field.

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

Mood

  • anxious
  • distressed

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person brown hair light blue shirt covering face green background blue text
  • pixel art low-resolution text 'Don't cry'
  • text 'I'm gonna r like a child their blanke'
  • text 'o get a mol Don't cry'
  • text 'e to be a t Don't cry'
  • text 'ig girls dor Don't cry'
  • low-resolution pixel art blue text black background
  • green background pixelated figure

Objects

  • hands

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

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  • o get a mol Don't cry
  • e to be a t Don't cry
  • ig girls dor Don't cry

Wordwall

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  • light blue shirt
  • hands covering face
  • green background
  • black background
  • blue pixelated text
  • partially cut off text
  • low-resolution pixel art
  • limited color palette
  • text: 'I'm gonna r like a child their blanke'
  • text: 'o get a mol Don't cry'
  • text: 'e to be a t Don't cry'
  • text: 'ig girls dor Don't cry'
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Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 14:03 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)
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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
20070903092422814947715
Archive entry
20070903092422814947715.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 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#20070903092422814947715.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070903092422814947715.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016