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Pixelated image of a shirtless man with muscular build standing against blue water and sky background, accompanied by pixelated text.

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Pixelated image of a shirtless man with muscular build standing against blue water and sky background, accompanied by pixelated text.

Pixelated image of a shirtless man with muscular build standing against blue water and sky background, accompanied by pixelated text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Intern…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four-quadrant layout

Dense Caption

The icon is divided into four quadrants. Top-left quadrant shows a shirtless man with short dark hair, light skin tone, and visible abdominal muscles; he stands in profile facing left with right hand on hip, set against a backdrop of blue water and sky. Bottom-left quadrant contains pixelated text reading "guy like that?" in lowercase letters. Top-right quadrant displays pixelated text reading "why can't i ever find a" in lowercase letters. The image uses low-resolution pixel art style with limited color palette including shades of blue, brown, gray, and white.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a shirtless man with muscular build standing against blue water and sky background, accompanied by pixelated text.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200801201546261197418747
  • 200801201546431446439780

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Named Entities

  • celebrities

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • shirtless man pixel art
  • why can't i ever find a guy like that
  • low-resolution buddy icon text
  • four quadrant pixel image

Preprocessing Notes

image appears to be a static image despite being labeled as animated in source metadata; no visible motion changes detected across observations

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

Visible Text

  • why can't i ever find a
  • guy like that?

Visually Supported Entities

  • celebrities

Wordwall

  • shirtless man
  • muscular build
  • blue water background
  • sky backdrop
  • right hand on hip
  • pixelated text
  • low-resolution art
  • four-quadrant layout

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200801201546261197418747
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200801201546431446439780
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/43/4303802f6f7152d5d37b506afb7c4595557dd89bd373f8613fee9638a0a51c04.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 UTC
Archive ID
4303802f6f7152d5
SHA-256
4303802f6f7152d5d37b506afb7c4595557dd89bd373f8613fee9638a0a51c04
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 31, 2026 at 12:06 UTC
Run
1249
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.019632

OpenAI category scores

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 29, 2026 at 10:16 UTC
Run
1245
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.004699

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagself-harm0.004699falsesexual0.003078falseviolence0.001172falseself-harm/intent0.000260falseviolence/graphic0.000017falseself-harm/instructions0.000005falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
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
0.538200

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image of a shirtless man with muscular build standing against blue water and sky background, accompanied by pixelated text.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 11:54 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,991 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,158, response 838

Review tags

  • hand on hip (action, 0.80)
  • standing (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • questioning (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • shirtless man (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • standing
  • hand on hip

Colors

  • blue
  • brown
  • gray
  • white

Composition

  • four-quadrant layout

Dense Caption

The icon is divided into four quadrants. Top-left quadrant shows a shirtless man with short dark hair, light skin tone, and visible abdominal muscles; he stands in profile facing left with right hand on hip, set against a backdrop of blue water and sky. Bottom-left quadrant contains pixelated text reading "guy like that?" in lowercase letters. Top-right quadrant displays pixelated text reading "why can't i ever find a" in lowercase letters. The image uses low-resolution pixel art style with limited color palette including shades of blue, brown, gray, and white.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a shirtless man with muscular build standing against blue water and sky background, accompanied by pixelated text.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200801201546261197418747
  • 200801201546431446439780

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • questioning

Named Entities

  • celebrities

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • shirtless man pixel art
  • why can't i ever find a guy like that
  • low-resolution buddy icon text
  • four quadrant pixel image

Preprocessing Notes

image appears to be a static image despite being labeled as animated in source metadata; no visible motion changes detected across observations

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

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • shirtless man

Visible Text

  • why can't i ever find a
  • guy like that?

Visually Supported Entities

  • celebrities

Wordwall

  • shirtless man
  • muscular build
  • blue water background
  • sky backdrop
  • right hand on hip
  • pixelated text
  • low-resolution art
  • four-quadrant layout
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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
200801201546261197418747
Archive entry
200801201546261197418747.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 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#200801201546261197418747.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200801201546261197418747.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
200801201546431446439780
Archive entry
200801201546431446439780.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 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#200801201546431446439780.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200801201546431446439780.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016