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Pixelated image of a person with gray hair in blue shirt against turquoise background with partial text.

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Pixelated image of a person with gray hair in blue shirt against turquoise background with partial text.

Pixelated image of a person with gray hair in blue shirt against turquoise background with partial text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split composition
  • left figure
  • right text block

Dense Caption

Left side shows pixelated figure with short gray curly hair, open mouth expression, wearing blue jacket over red shirt. Right side has solid cyan background with black blocky text reading "ET ME A BEE" (partially visible). Image uses low-resolution pixel art style with heavy dithering and color banding. Background includes blurred interior elements on left.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with gray hair in blue shirt against turquoise background with partial text.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • gray hair person cyan background
  • blue jacket red shirt text ET ME A BEE
  • pixelated figure open mouth
  • blocky text split composition

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original dimensions

Source Metadata Interpretation

untrustedSourceHintsJson contains multiple era claims (2007-2016) and collection names but pixels show no definitive era markers beyond style

Visible Text

  • ET ME A BEE

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • gray hair
  • blue jacket
  • red shirt
  • cyan background
  • blocky text
  • pixelated figure
  • open mouth
  • blurred interior

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200901261808481624759873
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:50 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/5f/5f20153046f311955af362e0bf69d190719c120ebdaebdac04427a63e54d4dc9.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:50 UTC
Archive ID
5f20153046f31195
SHA-256
5f20153046f311955af362e0bf69d190719c120ebdaebdac04427a63e54d4dc9
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 12, 2026 at 03:57 UTC
Run
1284
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.022892

OpenAI category scores

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onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:37 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.168918

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.913483onnx/unsafe0.168918onnx/nsfw0.119725onnx/nsfl0.049194
Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated image of a person with gray hair in blue shirt against turquoise background with partial text.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 20:13 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,285 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,145, response 533

Review tags

  • shouting (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • urgent (mood, 0.80)
  • dithered (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • shouting

Colors

  • gray
  • blue
  • red
  • cyan
  • black

Composition

  • split composition
  • left figure
  • right text block

Dense Caption

Left side shows pixelated figure with short gray curly hair, open mouth expression, wearing blue jacket over red shirt. Right side has solid cyan background with black blocky text reading "ET ME A BEE" (partially visible). Image uses low-resolution pixel art style with heavy dithering and color banding. Background includes blurred interior elements on left.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with gray hair in blue shirt against turquoise background with partial text.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Mood

  • urgent
  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • gray hair person cyan background
  • blue jacket red shirt text ET ME A BEE
  • pixelated figure open mouth
  • blocky text split composition

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original dimensions

Source Metadata Interpretation

untrustedSourceHintsJson contains multiple era claims (2007-2016) and collection names but pixels show no definitive era markers beyond style

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • dithered

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • ET ME A BEE

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • gray hair
  • blue jacket
  • red shirt
  • cyan background
  • blocky text
  • pixelated figure
  • open mouth
  • blurred interior
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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
200901261808481624759873
Archive entry
200901261808481624759873.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:50 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#200901261808481624759873.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200901261808481624759873.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016