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A pixelated image of a smiling person with short hair, accompanied by green text reading "I'm Bringin' sexy back" on a black background.

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A pixelated image of a smiling person with short hair, accompanied by green text reading "I'm Bringin' sexy back" on a black background.

A pixelated image of a smiling person with short hair, accompanied by green text reading "I'm Bringin' sexy back" on a black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Int…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • person on left
  • text on right and bottom
  • solid black background

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated close-up of a person with short brown hair and a light beard, wearing a dark shirt. The person is smiling with visible teeth. To the right of the person's image, green pixelated text reads "I'm" on the top right. Below the person's image, green pixelated text reads "Bringin'" on the left and "sexy" directly beneath it. To the right of the "sexy" text, green pixelated text reads "back". The background is solid black. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated style typical of early 2000s digital graphics.

Description

  • A pixelated image of a smiling person with short hair, accompanied by green text reading "I'm Bringin' sexy back" on a black background.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person smiling green text I'm Bringin' sexy back
  • pixelated image green text I'm Bringin' sexy back
  • green text I'm Bringin' sexy back black background
  • smiling person green text I'm Bringin' sexy back

Visible Text

  • I'm
  • Bringin'
  • sexy
  • back

Wordwall

  • pixelated image
  • short brown hair
  • light beard
  • smiling
  • visible teeth
  • dark shirt
  • green text
  • I'm
  • Bringin'
  • sexy
  • back
  • black background
  • low-resolution
  • early 2000s style

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708140437511887318612
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/45/452561dab9490adbf6d41017ecd5b49222c762a65526e3b33ef9ca59a67391ff.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 UTC
Archive ID
452561dab9490adb
SHA-256
452561dab9490adbf6d41017ecd5b49222c762a65526e3b33ef9ca59a67391ff
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 25, 2026 at 23:25 UTC
Run
1343
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.203791

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagsexual0.203791falseharassment0.000543falsesexual/minors0.000026falseself-harm0.000012falsehate0.000010falseviolence0.000009falseharassment/threatening0.000005falseviolence/graphic0.000004falseself-harm/intent0.000004falseillicit0.000004falseself-harm/instructions0.000002falseillicit/violent0.000001falsehate/threatening0.000000false

Qwen scheduling evidence

Evidence strength is retained for queueing and audit. It does not set the public content-safety verdict.

EvidenceStrengthInputenrichment/ocr/sexual1.000000textenrichment/visual/sexual0.500000image
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 13, 2026 at 12:53 UTC
Run
1287
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.204386

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagsexual0.204386falseviolence0.001270falseself-harm0.000599falseself-harm/intent0.000255falseself-harm/instructions0.000215falseviolence/graphic0.000022falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
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
0.156641

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.924550onnx/unsafe0.156641onnx/nsfw0.091319onnx/nsfl0.065323
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A pixelated image of a smiling person with short hair, accompanied by green text reading "I'm Bringin' sexy back" on a black background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 23:21 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,897 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 758

Review tags

  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • light beige (color, 0.80)
  • confident (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • early 2000s digital graphics (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling

Colors

  • green
  • black
  • brown
  • light beige

Composition

  • person on left
  • text on right and bottom
  • solid black background

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated close-up of a person with short brown hair and a light beard, wearing a dark shirt. The person is smiling with visible teeth. To the right of the person's image, green pixelated text reads "I'm" on the top right. Below the person's image, green pixelated text reads "Bringin'" on the left and "sexy" directly beneath it. To the right of the "sexy" text, green pixelated text reads "back". The background is solid black. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated style typical of early 2000s digital graphics.

Description

  • A pixelated image of a smiling person with short hair, accompanied by green text reading "I'm Bringin' sexy back" on a black background.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • playful
  • confident

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person smiling green text I'm Bringin' sexy back
  • pixelated image green text I'm Bringin' sexy back
  • green text I'm Bringin' sexy back black background
  • smiling person green text I'm Bringin' sexy back

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • early 2000s digital graphics

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • I'm
  • Bringin'
  • sexy
  • back

Wordwall

  • pixelated image
  • short brown hair
  • light beard
  • smiling
  • visible teeth
  • dark shirt
  • green text
  • I'm
  • Bringin'
  • sexy
  • back
  • black background
  • low-resolution
  • early 2000s style
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 11:33 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)
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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
200708140437511887318612
Archive entry
200708140437511887318612.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 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#200708140437511887318612.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708140437511887318612.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016