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Pixelated image of a person with short white hair in a black robe, standing beside a green background with white text.

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split background
  • text on right
  • figure on left

Dense Caption

Pixelated image shows a person with short white hair and brown eyes wearing a black robe with a white collar. The background is split: left side has blurred green and brown tones, right side is solid bright green. White pixelated text on green background reads "I never knew evil was cute". Image has low-resolution, blocky rendering typical of early 2000s digital art.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with short white hair in a black robe, standing beside a green background with white text.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • Draco Malfoy

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • white hair black robe green background text
  • pixelated text I never knew evil was cute
  • Draco Malfoy pixel art
  • low-resolution buddy icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be upscaled from original dimensions

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

Visible Text

  • I never knew evil was cute

Wordwall

  • white hair
  • black robe
  • white collar
  • green background
  • pixelated text
  • I never knew evil was cute
  • brown eyes
  • blurred background
  • low-resolution
  • blocky rendering

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708161029141273309858
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/3d/3dccd0817d1fbd5d78a309d9f941d12d9e48df034a2b105b06875d2e9d0cb16b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC
Archive ID
3dccd0817d1fbd5d
SHA-256
3dccd0817d1fbd5d78a309d9f941d12d9e48df034a2b105b06875d2e9d0cb16b
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 16, 2026 at 07:47 UTC
Run
1298
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001235

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:48 UTC
Run
107
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated image of a person with short white hair in a black robe, standing beside a green background with white text.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 00:26 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,767 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,148, response 670

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • ironic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • white
  • black
  • green
  • brown

Composition

  • split background
  • text on right
  • figure on left

Dense Caption

Pixelated image shows a person with short white hair and brown eyes wearing a black robe with a white collar. The background is split: left side has blurred green and brown tones, right side is solid bright green. White pixelated text on green background reads "I never knew evil was cute". Image has low-resolution, blocky rendering typical of early 2000s digital art.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with short white hair in a black robe, standing beside a green background with white text.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • Draco Malfoy

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • playful
  • ironic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • white hair black robe green background text
  • pixelated text I never knew evil was cute
  • Draco Malfoy pixel art
  • low-resolution buddy icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be upscaled from original dimensions

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • I never knew evil was cute

Wordwall

  • white hair
  • black robe
  • white collar
  • green background
  • pixelated text
  • I never knew evil was cute
  • brown eyes
  • blurred background
  • low-resolution
  • blocky rendering
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 11:51 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)
Raw JSON
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
200708161029141273309858
Archive entry
200708161029141273309858.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 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#200708161029141273309858.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708161029141273309858.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016