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A pixelated image shows a person in a light blue shirt on the left, with a bright blue background on the right containing black text reading "fun university !!!!!!! FU".

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A pixelated image shows a person in a light blue shirt on the left, with a bright blue background on the right containing black text reading "fun university !!!!!!! FU".

A pixelated image shows a person in a light blue shirt on the left, with a bright blue background on the right containing black text reading "fun university !!!!!!! FU". Animated…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split vertical
  • left person
  • right text

Dense Caption

The image is split vertically: left side shows a pixelated person with light brown hair and a light blue shirt against a dark background; right side has a solid light blue background with black text. Text reads "fun" at top, "university" below it, followed by eight exclamation marks, then "F" and "U" stacked vertically. The image uses low-resolution pixel art style with visible dithering and blocky edges. The person's expression is neutral. The text uses a bold, pixelated font. The background on the left is dark and indistinct, while the right background is uniformly light blue.

Description

A pixelated image shows a person in a light blue shirt on the left, with a bright blue background on the right containing black text reading "fun university !!!!!!! FU".

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • fun university FU
  • pixelated person light blue shirt
  • split composition text
  • eight exclamation marks

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled

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

  • fun
  • university
  • !!!!!!!!
  • F
  • U

Wordwall

  • person in light blue shirt
  • light brown hair
  • neutral expression
  • light blue background
  • black text
  • fun
  • university
  • eight exclamation marks
  • F
  • U
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • split composition
  • dithering
  • blocky edges

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070820125928715975488
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
2.4 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/44/44e6a8bc8af9f9ae3d3ffca070fd86986a286aca18078adc9eb2f9d3c00fd610.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC
Archive ID
44e6a8bc8af9f9ae
SHA-256
44e6a8bc8af9f9ae3d3ffca070fd86986a286aca18078adc9eb2f9d3c00fd610
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:55 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.126760

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

A pixelated image shows a person in a light blue shirt on the left, with a bright blue background on the right containing black text reading "fun university !!!!!!! FU".

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 02:44 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,943 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,139, response 800

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • dark (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • light blue
  • black
  • light brown
  • dark

Composition

  • split vertical
  • left person
  • right text

Dense Caption

The image is split vertically: left side shows a pixelated person with light brown hair and a light blue shirt against a dark background; right side has a solid light blue background with black text. Text reads "fun" at top, "university" below it, followed by eight exclamation marks, then "F" and "U" stacked vertically. The image uses low-resolution pixel art style with visible dithering and blocky edges. The person's expression is neutral. The text uses a bold, pixelated font. The background on the left is dark and indistinct, while the right background is uniformly light blue.

Description

A pixelated image shows a person in a light blue shirt on the left, with a bright blue background on the right containing black text reading "fun university !!!!!!! FU".

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • fun university FU
  • pixelated person light blue shirt
  • split composition text
  • eight exclamation marks

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • 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
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  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • blocky

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • fun
  • university
  • !!!!!!!!
  • F
  • U

Wordwall

  • person in light blue shirt
  • light brown hair
  • neutral expression
  • light blue background
  • black text
  • fun
  • university
  • eight exclamation marks
  • F
  • U
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • split composition
  • dithering
  • blocky edges
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 12:21 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
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Error
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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
20070820125928715975488
Archive entry
20070820125928715975488.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#20070820125928715975488.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070820125928715975488.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016