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Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and light skin, wearing a light-colored top, next to red text on a black background.

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Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and light skin, wearing a light-colored top, next to red text on a black background.

Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and light skin, wearing a light-colored top, next to red text on a black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Arc…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split composition
  • left: person
  • right: text

Dense Caption

The image is a static pixelated portrait of a person with dark hair and light skin, wearing a light-colored top. The left side shows the person's face and upper body against a light background. The right side features red pixelated text on a black background reading "wake me up inside". The image has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance with visible pixelation and blocky rendering.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and light skin, wearing a light-colored top, next to red text 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200803041609411316821027

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person dark hair light skin
  • red text black background
  • wake me up inside
  • pixelated portrait
  • low-resolution digital
  • split composition text
  • retro digital style
  • light-colored top

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears static; no visible animation changes

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • wake me up inside

Wordwall

  • pixelated portrait
  • dark hair
  • light skin
  • light-colored top
  • red text
  • black background
  • low-resolution
  • retro digital
  • text: wake me up inside

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200803041609411316821027
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/49/495d85703b05fb318c92136e284b7d6f9994071d379b9b15806e302cc9131714.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 UTC
Archive ID
495d85703b05fb31
SHA-256
495d85703b05fb318c92136e284b7d6f9994071d379b9b15806e302cc9131714
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 27, 2026 at 01:00 UTC
Run
1349
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000498

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
August 1, 2026 at 06:48 UTC
Run
1252
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.022979falseself-harm0.018575falseself-harm/intent0.008239falsesexual0.000704falseself-harm/instructions0.000236falseviolence/graphic0.000065falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 08:00 UTC
Run
107
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.413723

OpenAI category scores

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

Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and light skin, wearing a light-colored top, next to red text on a black background.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 15:37 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,137 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,151, response 805

Review tags

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  • dark gray (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • red
  • light gray
  • white
  • dark gray

Composition

  • split composition
  • left: person
  • right: text

Dense Caption

The image is a static pixelated portrait of a person with dark hair and light skin, wearing a light-colored top. The left side shows the person's face and upper body against a light background. The right side features red pixelated text on a black background reading "wake me up inside". The image has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance with visible pixelation and blocky rendering.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and light skin, wearing a light-colored top, next to red text 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200803041609411316821027

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • red text black background
  • wake me up inside
  • pixelated portrait
  • low-resolution digital
  • split composition text
  • retro digital style
  • light-colored top

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears static; no visible animation changes

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
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Subjects

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Visible Text

  • wake me up inside

Wordwall

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  • dark hair
  • light skin
  • light-colored top
  • red text
  • black background
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  • text: wake me up inside
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 04:45 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
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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
200803041609411316821027
Archive entry
200803041609411316821027.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 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#200803041609411316821027.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200803041609411316821027.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016