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Pixelated icon with skull design and text 'SKULL' above 'BROTHER' on black background

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Pixelated icon with skull design and text 'SKULL' above 'BROTHER' on black background

Pixelated icon with skull design and text 'SKULL' above 'BROTHER' on black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Lat…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • partial gray rectangle

Dense Caption

Four identical pixelated icons arranged in a 2x2 grid on black background; each icon features a white skull with dark teal accents, 'SKULL' text in dark teal above the skull, 'BROTHER' text in white below the skull, all rendered in low-resolution pixel art style; rightmost bottom icon partially overlaps a light gray rectangle

Description

  • Pixelated icon with skull design and text 'SKULL' above 'BROTHER' on 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: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • skull brother pixel art
  • teal skull black background
  • pixelated skull brother
  • brother skull teal text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid

Subjects

  • skull

Visible Text

  • SKULL
  • BROTHER

Wordwall

  • skull
  • teal
  • brother
  • pixelated
  • black background
  • white skull
  • text 'SKULL'
  • text 'BROTHER'
  • low-resolution
  • partial gray rectangle

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
201005061231271427127457
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:06 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.8 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/4d/4def48cedd40ffb37c12c729101ee82960ee7bc0f3db8904b00a5424cdf2eb69.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:06 UTC
Archive ID
4def48cedd40ffb3
SHA-256
4def48cedd40ffb37c12c729101ee82960ee7bc0f3db8904b00a5424cdf2eb69
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:18 UTC
Run
1034
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.084193

OpenAI category scores

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

Pixelated icon with skull design and text 'SKULL' above 'BROTHER' on black background

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 18:55 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
5,380 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,106, response 550

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • teal (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • skull (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • teal

Composition

  • partial gray rectangle

Dense Caption

Four identical pixelated icons arranged in a 2x2 grid on black background; each icon features a white skull with dark teal accents, 'SKULL' text in dark teal above the skull, 'BROTHER' text in white below the skull, all rendered in low-resolution pixel art style; rightmost bottom icon partially overlaps a light gray rectangle

Description

  • Pixelated icon with skull design and text 'SKULL' above 'BROTHER' on 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: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • skull brother pixel art
  • teal skull black background
  • pixelated skull brother
  • brother skull teal text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • skull

Visible Text

  • SKULL
  • BROTHER

Wordwall

  • skull
  • teal
  • brother
  • pixelated
  • black background
  • white skull
  • text 'SKULL'
  • text 'BROTHER'
  • low-resolution
  • partial gray rectangle
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
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Run
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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
201005061231271427127457
Archive entry
201005061231271427127457.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:06 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#201005061231271427127457.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#201005061231271427127457.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016