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A pixelated image of a person in a red leotard standing with arms extended against a white background, next to red text reading "u need" and "GUTZ 4".

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A pixelated image of a person in a red leotard standing with arms extended against a white background, next to red text reading "u need" and "GUTZ 4".

A pixelated image of a person in a red leotard standing with arms extended against a white background, next to red text reading "u need" and "GUTZ 4". Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy…

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Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split background
  • text on red section
  • figure on white section

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated figure of a person in a red leotard with long sleeves, standing in a pose with arms extended horizontally and legs slightly apart. The figure has light skin and dark hair. The background is split: the left side is white, the right side is solid red. On the red background, black pixelated text reads "u need" in the upper right, "GUTZ 4" in the lower left, and "Gym-Nast-ics!" in the lower right. The text is in a blocky, pixelated font. The image has low resolution and visible pixelation.

Description

A pixelated image of a person in a red leotard standing with arms extended against a white background, next to red text reading "u need" and "GUTZ 4".

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

  • gymnast red leotard
  • u need gym-nast-ics
  • gutz 4 gymnastics
  • pixelated gymnast text
  • split background gymnastics
  • gymnastics leotard text
  • gymnastics red white text
  • gymnastics pixelated figure

Visible Text

  • u need
  • GUTZ 4
  • Gym-Nast-ics!

Wordwall

  • red leotard
  • long sleeves
  • arms extended
  • light skin
  • dark hair
  • white background
  • red background
  • pixelated text
  • u need
  • GUTZ 4
  • Gym-Nast-ics!
  • blocky font
  • low resolution
  • horizontal pose
  • split background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200707250830221290779830
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:33 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.6 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/45/454a0497bc03552385cec7380a220e367161be5a6ece01eaf45b4d3cac8ac8d8.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:33 UTC
Archive ID
454a0497bc035523
SHA-256
454a0497bc03552385cec7380a220e367161be5a6ece01eaf45b4d3cac8ac8d8
Content-safety assessments (1)
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
0.103093

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A pixelated image of a person in a red leotard standing with arms extended against a white background, next to red text reading "u need" and "GUTZ 4".

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 14:07 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,033 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 785

Review tags

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  • standing (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • dark hair (color, 0.80)
  • light skin (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • standing
  • arms extended

Colors

  • red
  • white
  • black
  • light skin
  • dark hair

Composition

  • split background
  • text on red section
  • figure on white section

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated figure of a person in a red leotard with long sleeves, standing in a pose with arms extended horizontally and legs slightly apart. The figure has light skin and dark hair. The background is split: the left side is white, the right side is solid red. On the red background, black pixelated text reads "u need" in the upper right, "GUTZ 4" in the lower left, and "Gym-Nast-ics!" in the lower right. The text is in a blocky, pixelated font. The image has low resolution and visible pixelation.

Description

A pixelated image of a person in a red leotard standing with arms extended against a white background, next to red text reading "u need" and "GUTZ 4".

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

  • gymnast red leotard
  • u need gym-nast-ics
  • gutz 4 gymnastics
  • pixelated gymnast text
  • split background gymnastics
  • gymnastics leotard text
  • gymnastics red white text
  • gymnastics pixelated figure

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky font
  • low resolution

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • u need
  • GUTZ 4
  • Gym-Nast-ics!

Wordwall

  • red leotard
  • long sleeves
  • arms extended
  • light skin
  • dark hair
  • white background
  • red background
  • pixelated text
  • u need
  • GUTZ 4
  • Gym-Nast-ics!
  • blocky font
  • low resolution
  • horizontal pose
  • split background
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 09:10 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
200707250830221290779830
Archive entry
200707250830221290779830.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:33 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#200707250830221290779830.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200707250830221290779830.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016