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Pixelated image of a character with green and blue lights on shoulders, dark clothing, and a blurred background with text reading "What is THAT?".

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Pixelated image of a character with green and blue lights on shoulders, dark clothing, and a blurred background with text reading "What is THAT?".

Pixelated image of a character with green and blue lights on shoulders, dark clothing, and a blurred background with text reading "What is THAT?". Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy ico…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • character centered
  • text on right
  • background indistinct

Dense Caption

Pixelated image shows a character with green and blue shoulder lights, dark clothing, and a blurred background. The character's face is partially visible with a neutral expression. Text in black rectangular boxes reads "What is THAT?" in white capital letters. The image has a low-resolution, grainy appearance with visible pixelation. The background contains indistinct shapes and colors including green, blue, and brown tones. The character appears to be standing with arms slightly outstretched.

Description

Pixelated image of a character with green and blue lights on shoulders, dark clothing, and a blurred background with text reading "What is THAT?".

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 200806230220281705136459

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • character with green shoulder lights
  • text What is THAT?
  • pixelated buddy icon
  • buddy icon with shoulder lights
  • low-resolution character image
  • text boxes with white letters
  • green and blue shoulder lights
  • character standing with arms outstretched

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

  • What is THAT?

Wordwall

  • green shoulder lights
  • blue shoulder lights
  • dark clothing
  • text: What is THAT?
  • pixelated
  • grainy
  • neutral expression
  • indistinct background
  • black rectangular text boxes
  • white capital letters
  • character standing
  • arms slightly outstretched
  • green and blue tones
  • brown background
  • low-resolution
  • blurred
  • text boxes
  • pixelation
  • neutral face
  • shoulder lights

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200806230220281705136459
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:31 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.9 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/49/49792665cbc6f4b4720ceef708fa8cb3c294df535b0faf441e4712b4cec77a14.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:31 UTC
Archive ID
49792665cbc6f4b4
SHA-256
49792665cbc6f4b4720ceef708fa8cb3c294df535b0faf441e4712b4cec77a14
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:04 UTC
Run
1031
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.114621

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image of a character with green and blue lights on shoulders, dark clothing, and a blurred background with text reading "What is THAT?".

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 07:53 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,492 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,142, response 871

Review tags

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  • standing (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • dark (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • shoulder lights (object, 0.80)
  • text boxes (object, 0.80)
  • grainy (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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  • character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • standing
  • arms slightly outstretched

Colors

  • green
  • blue
  • dark
  • black
  • white
  • brown

Composition

  • character centered
  • text on right
  • background indistinct

Dense Caption

Pixelated image shows a character with green and blue shoulder lights, dark clothing, and a blurred background. The character's face is partially visible with a neutral expression. Text in black rectangular boxes reads "What is THAT?" in white capital letters. The image has a low-resolution, grainy appearance with visible pixelation. The background contains indistinct shapes and colors including green, blue, and brown tones. The character appears to be standing with arms slightly outstretched.

Description

Pixelated image of a character with green and blue lights on shoulders, dark clothing, and a blurred background with text reading "What is THAT?".

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 200806230220281705136459

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • character with green shoulder lights
  • text What is THAT?
  • pixelated buddy icon
  • buddy icon with shoulder lights
  • low-resolution character image
  • text boxes with white letters
  • green and blue shoulder lights
  • character standing with arms outstretched

Objects

  • shoulder lights
  • text boxes

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
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  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • grainy
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • character

Visible Text

  • What is THAT?

Wordwall

  • green shoulder lights
  • blue shoulder lights
  • dark clothing
  • text: What is THAT?
  • pixelated
  • grainy
  • neutral expression
  • indistinct background
  • black rectangular text boxes
  • white capital letters
  • character standing
  • arms slightly outstretched
  • green and blue tones
  • brown background
  • low-resolution
  • blurred
  • text boxes
  • pixelation
  • neutral face
  • shoulder lights
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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
200806230220281705136459
Archive entry
200806230220281705136459.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:31 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#200806230220281705136459.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200806230220281705136459.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016