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A person with dark curly hair wears a black shirt with red text, positioned against a dark background with white and red graphic elements.

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A person with dark curly hair wears a black shirt with red text, positioned against a dark background with white and red graphic elements.

A person with dark curly hair wears a black shirt with red text, positioned against a dark background with white and red graphic elements. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from I…

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Mood

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Source terms

Animation

  • static image with no visible motion changes

Composition

  • centered subject
  • repeated background elements

Dense Caption

The image shows a person with voluminous dark curly hair. The individual is wearing a black garment with prominent red lettering that reads "FAKE" in bold uppercase letters. Behind the figure, there are repeated white and red graphic shapes resembling stylized text or symbols on a deep maroon background. In the bottom-left quadrant of the image, one section appears to be grayed out or missing. The overall visual style is pixelated with low resolution.

Description

  • A person with dark curly hair wears a black shirt with red text, positioned against a dark background with white and red graphic elements.

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: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • dark curly hair person
  • black shirt red text FAKE
  • maroon background white graphics

Visible Text

  • FAKE

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • dark curly hair
  • black shirt
  • red text FAKE
  • maroon background
  • white graphic shapes
  • pixelated

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200901170716081572952778
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/3e/3e32dfad7b84ae7b888034f578242d66c423ddfd39f03480de4b87aed96b9999.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 UTC
Archive ID
3e32dfad7b84ae7b
SHA-256
3e32dfad7b84ae7b888034f578242d66c423ddfd39f03480de4b87aed96b9999
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 18, 2026 at 18:38 UTC
Run
1312
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000557

OpenAI category scores

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EvidenceStrengthInputenrichment/visual/violence0.500000image
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:48 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.098976

OpenAI category scores

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A person with dark curly hair wears a black shirt with red text, positioned against a dark background with white and red graphic elements.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 18:34 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,649 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 551

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • dark maroon (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • background graphics (object, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
  • static image with no visible motion changes (other, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static image with no visible motion changes

Colors

  • dark maroon
  • black
  • red
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • centered subject
  • repeated background elements

Dense Caption

The image shows a person with voluminous dark curly hair. The individual is wearing a black garment with prominent red lettering that reads "FAKE" in bold uppercase letters. Behind the figure, there are repeated white and red graphic shapes resembling stylized text or symbols on a deep maroon background. In the bottom-left quadrant of the image, one section appears to be grayed out or missing. The overall visual style is pixelated with low resolution.

Description

  • A person with dark curly hair wears a black shirt with red text, positioned against a dark background with white and red graphic elements.

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: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • dark curly hair person
  • black shirt red text FAKE
  • maroon background white graphics

Objects

  • text
  • background graphics

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • FAKE

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • dark curly hair
  • black shirt
  • red text FAKE
  • maroon background
  • white graphic shapes
  • pixelated
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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
200901170716081572952778
Archive entry
200901170716081572952778.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 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#200901170716081572952778.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200901170716081572952778.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016