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Black and white pixelated text displays 'MEAN PEOPLE SUCK' in large block letters on the left, with smaller repeated text on the right.

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Black and white pixelated text displays 'MEAN PEOPLE SUCK' in large block letters on the left, with smaller repeated text on the right.

Black and white pixelated text displays 'MEAN PEOPLE SUCK' in large block letters on the left, with smaller repeated text on the right. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Inte…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split composition
  • vertical stack on left
  • horizontal repetition on right

Dense Caption

Black and white pixelated image with large block letters spelling 'MEAN PEOPLE SUCK' on the left side. Smaller repeated text 'Mean People Such! Mean people Such! Mean People Such!' appears on the right side. The text uses a bold, pixelated font with high contrast between black and white. The image is static with no visible animation changes. The left text is vertically stacked, while the right text is horizontally and vertically repeated. The overall composition is split between the two text blocks.

Description

  • Black and white pixelated text displays 'MEAN PEOPLE SUCK' in large block letters on the left, with smaller repeated text on the right.

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 topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070812211008549512615

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • MEAN PEOPLE SUCK pixelated text
  • Mean People Such! repeated text
  • black and white text icon
  • split composition pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation detected; image appears static

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: humor

Visible Text

  • MEAN
  • PEOPLE
  • SUCK
  • Such!

Wordwall

  • MEAN PEOPLE SUCK
  • Mean People Such!
  • pixelated text
  • black and white
  • repeated text
  • bold font
  • high contrast
  • vertical stack
  • horizontal repetition
  • split composition

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070812211008549512615
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
2.7 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/4f/4fbaf73eef9bdcbd40e7c1af613058f542bd2578381b38b2157eb43d2f83c836.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 UTC
Archive ID
4fbaf73eef9bdcbd
SHA-256
4fbaf73eef9bdcbd40e7c1af613058f542bd2578381b38b2157eb43d2f83c836
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 16, 2026 at 08:29 UTC
Run
1298
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.016033

OpenAI category scores

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onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:20 UTC
Run
1034
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.138138

OpenAI category scores

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

Black and white pixelated text displays 'MEAN PEOPLE SUCK' in large block letters on the left, with smaller repeated text on the right.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 22:49 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,101 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,142, response 792

Review tags

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  • white (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • sarcastic (mood, 0.80)
  • high contrast (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white

Composition

  • split composition
  • vertical stack on left
  • horizontal repetition on right

Dense Caption

Black and white pixelated image with large block letters spelling 'MEAN PEOPLE SUCK' on the left side. Smaller repeated text 'Mean People Such! Mean people Such! Mean People Such!' appears on the right side. The text uses a bold, pixelated font with high contrast between black and white. The image is static with no visible animation changes. The left text is vertically stacked, while the right text is horizontally and vertically repeated. The overall composition is split between the two text blocks.

Description

  • Black and white pixelated text displays 'MEAN PEOPLE SUCK' in large block letters on the left, with smaller repeated text on the right.

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 topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070812211008549512615

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • sarcastic
  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • MEAN PEOPLE SUCK pixelated text
  • Mean People Such! repeated text
  • black and white text icon
  • split composition pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation detected; image appears static

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: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • high contrast

Visible Text

  • MEAN
  • PEOPLE
  • SUCK
  • Such!

Wordwall

  • MEAN PEOPLE SUCK
  • Mean People Such!
  • pixelated text
  • black and white
  • repeated text
  • bold font
  • high contrast
  • vertical stack
  • horizontal repetition
  • split composition
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 11:25 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)
Raw JSON
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
20070812211008549512615
Archive entry
20070812211008549512615.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#20070812211008549512615.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070812211008549512615.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016