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A pixelated image of a person in a dark jacket with a green collar, holding a white object, with pink text below.

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A pixelated image of a person in a dark jacket with a green collar, holding a white object, with pink text below.

A pixelated image of a person in a dark jacket with a green collar, holding a white object, with pink text below. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIco…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • text changes from "ARWIN" to "ROX" to "!!!!!!!!"

Animation Summary

  • The text changes from "ARWIN" to "ROX" to "!!!!!!!!" across the frames.

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • solid light gray
  • indistinct background

Dense Caption

The image shows a person with light-colored hair wearing a dark jacket with a green collar, holding a white object. The background is indistinct. In the top-left frame, pink text reads "ARWIN"; in the top-right frame, pink text reads "ROX"; in the bottom-left frame, pink text displays a series of exclamation marks. The image has a pixelated, low-resolution appearance with visible compression artifacts. The person's expression appears neutral. The white object is held close to the chest. The background is a mix of dark and light tones. The text is in a bold, pixelated font. The image is divided into four quadrants, with the bottom-right quadrant being a solid light gray color.

Description

  • A pixelated image of a person in a dark jacket with a green collar, holding a white object, with pink text below.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 2007072906304373370735

Metadata Supported By Image

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person holding white object
  • pink text ARWIN
  • pink text ROX
  • pink text exclamation marks
  • pixelated image
  • low-resolution
  • four quadrants
  • solid light gray background

Preprocessing Notes

  • The image appears to be a static frame with text changes, not a true animation.

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

Visible Text

  • ARWIN
  • ROX
  • !!!!!!!!

Wordwall

  • person
  • dark jacket
  • green collar
  • white object
  • pink text
  • pixelated
  • compression artifacts
  • exclamation marks
  • light gray background
  • neutral expression
  • held close to chest
  • four quadrants
  • solid light gray
  • bold font
  • indistinct background
  • light-colored hair
  • low-resolution
  • text changes

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2007072906304373370735
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
5.1 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/3f/3fff3f777d3b2de23bac0b4cd005adf186acadab11254e29f0708ba5a54cbbaa.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 UTC
Archive ID
3fff3f777d3b2de2
SHA-256
3fff3f777d3b2de23bac0b4cd005adf186acadab11254e29f0708ba5a54cbbaa
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:50 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.120893

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.895553onnx/unsafe0.120893onnx/nsfw0.070035onnx/nsfl0.050858
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A pixelated image of a person in a dark jacket with a green collar, holding a white object, with pink text below.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 15:50 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,298 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,100, response 981

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • dark (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • light colored (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • white object (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding

Animation

  • text changes from "ARWIN" to "ROX" to "!!!!!!!!"

Animation Summary

  • The text changes from "ARWIN" to "ROX" to "!!!!!!!!" across the frames.

Colors

  • pink
  • dark
  • green
  • white
  • light gray
  • light-colored

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • solid light gray
  • indistinct background

Dense Caption

The image shows a person with light-colored hair wearing a dark jacket with a green collar, holding a white object. The background is indistinct. In the top-left frame, pink text reads "ARWIN"; in the top-right frame, pink text reads "ROX"; in the bottom-left frame, pink text displays a series of exclamation marks. The image has a pixelated, low-resolution appearance with visible compression artifacts. The person's expression appears neutral. The white object is held close to the chest. The background is a mix of dark and light tones. The text is in a bold, pixelated font. The image is divided into four quadrants, with the bottom-right quadrant being a solid light gray color.

Description

  • A pixelated image of a person in a dark jacket with a green collar, holding a white object, with pink text below.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 2007072906304373370735

Metadata Supported By Image

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

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person holding white object
  • pink text ARWIN
  • pink text ROX
  • pink text exclamation marks
  • pixelated image
  • low-resolution
  • four quadrants
  • solid light gray background

Objects

  • white object

Preprocessing Notes

  • The image appears to be a static frame with text changes, not a true animation.

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
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • ARWIN
  • ROX
  • !!!!!!!!

Wordwall

  • person
  • dark jacket
  • green collar
  • white object
  • pink text
  • pixelated
  • compression artifacts
  • exclamation marks
  • light gray background
  • neutral expression
  • held close to chest
  • four quadrants
  • solid light gray
  • bold font
  • indistinct background
  • light-colored hair
  • low-resolution
  • text changes
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 09:39 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)
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
2007072906304373370735
Archive entry
2007072906304373370735.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 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#2007072906304373370735.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2007072906304373370735.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016