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A pixelated image shows a person in a light blue shirt against a dark background, with green text reading 'Don Vito<3' on a red background.

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A pixelated image shows a person in a light blue shirt against a dark background, with green text reading 'Don Vito<3' on a red background.

A pixelated image shows a person in a light blue shirt against a dark background, with green text reading 'Don Vito<3' on a red background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split left-right
  • text on solid background
  • person on dark background

Dense Caption

The image is split into two sections. On the left, a pixelated person with light brown hair wears a light blue shirt; the background is dark. On the right, a solid red background displays green pixelated text reading 'Don Vito<3'. The text uses a retro digital font. The image has low resolution and visible pixelation. The person's expression is neutral. The right section's text is the only visible text.

Description

  • A pixelated image shows a person in a light blue shirt against a dark background, with green text reading 'Don Vito<3' on a red background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Metadata Only Entities

  • Don Vito

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Don Vito
  • buddy icon
  • pixelated person
  • green text
  • red background
  • light blue shirt
  • retro digital font
  • low resolution

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears static

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

Visible Text

  • Don Vito<3

Wordwall

  • pixelated person
  • light blue shirt
  • dark background
  • red background
  • green text
  • Don Vito<3
  • retro digital font
  • low resolution
  • neutral expression

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200810271557441735075798
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 UTC

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Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200810271559341529815252
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/42/42e161773f30967decd9b9ca1ce29f147f83a175d252d77b3a49fc71b239d1ff.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 UTC
Archive ID
42e161773f30967d
SHA-256
42e161773f30967decd9b9ca1ce29f147f83a175d252d77b3a49fc71b239d1ff
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:53 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.094130

OpenAI category scores

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A pixelated image shows a person in a light blue shirt against a dark background, with green text reading 'Don Vito<3' on a red background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 05:51 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,900 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,192, response 752

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • dark brown (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • green
  • light blue
  • dark brown
  • black

Composition

  • split left-right
  • text on solid background
  • person on dark background

Dense Caption

The image is split into two sections. On the left, a pixelated person with light brown hair wears a light blue shirt; the background is dark. On the right, a solid red background displays green pixelated text reading 'Don Vito<3'. The text uses a retro digital font. The image has low resolution and visible pixelation. The person's expression is neutral. The right section's text is the only visible text.

Description

  • A pixelated image shows a person in a light blue shirt against a dark background, with green text reading 'Don Vito<3' on a red background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Metadata Only Entities

  • Don Vito

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Don Vito
  • buddy icon
  • pixelated person
  • green text
  • red background
  • light blue shirt
  • retro digital font
  • low resolution

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears static

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • Don Vito<3

Wordwall

  • pixelated person
  • light blue shirt
  • dark background
  • red background
  • green text
  • Don Vito<3
  • retro digital font
  • low resolution
  • neutral expression
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Full source records (2)

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
200810271557441735075798
Archive entry
200810271557441735075798.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 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#200810271557441735075798.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200810271557441735075798.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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
200810271559341529815252
Archive entry
200810271559341529815252.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 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#200810271559341529815252.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200810271559341529815252.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016