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Pixelated image of a person in a blue shirt with red collar, mouth open, next to text reading 'American's are.... fat' on black background.

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Pixelated image of a person in a blue shirt with red collar, mouth open, next to text reading 'American's are.... fat' on black background.

Pixelated image of a person in a blue shirt with red collar, mouth open, next to text reading 'American's are.... fat' on black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text top-right
  • text bottom-left
  • text bottom-right
  • person left

Dense Caption

Pixelated image shows a person with gray hair wearing a blue shirt with red collar, mouth open in mid-expression. Background is blurred with indistinct shapes. Text elements: 'American's' in white pixelated font at top right, 'are....' in white pixelated font at bottom left, 'fat' in white pixelated font at bottom right. All text is on solid black background. Image has low-resolution pixelation typical of early 2000s digital media.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person in a blue shirt with red collar, mouth open, next to text reading 'American's are.... fat' 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: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • American's are fat
  • pixelated person blue shirt
  • text overlay humor
  • low-resolution fat meme

Style

  • text overlay

Visible Text

  • American's
  • are....
  • fat

Wordwall

  • gray hair
  • blue shirt
  • red collar
  • mouth open
  • American's
  • are....
  • fat
  • pixelated
  • black background
  • white text
  • low-resolution
  • blurred background
  • mid-expression
  • text layout

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708031114181128262302
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/64/64fea53b1e7156224d4779e97307f50611dd0b1cf317a518483bf3bf4ff39d20.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC
Archive ID
64fea53b1e715622
SHA-256
64fea53b1e7156224d4779e97307f50611dd0b1cf317a518483bf3bf4ff39d20
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:43 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.123251

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

Pixelated image of a person in a blue shirt with red collar, mouth open, next to text reading 'American's are.... fat' on black background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 18:35 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,390 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 691

Review tags

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  • stereotypical (mood, 0.80)
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  • person (subject, 0.80)

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Colors

  • gray
  • blue
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  • white
  • black

Composition

  • text top-right
  • text bottom-left
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  • person left

Dense Caption

Pixelated image shows a person with gray hair wearing a blue shirt with red collar, mouth open in mid-expression. Background is blurred with indistinct shapes. Text elements: 'American's' in white pixelated font at top right, 'are....' in white pixelated font at bottom left, 'fat' in white pixelated font at bottom right. All text is on solid black background. Image has low-resolution pixelation typical of early 2000s digital media.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person in a blue shirt with red collar, mouth open, next to text reading 'American's are.... fat' 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: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Mood

  • humorous
  • stereotypical

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • American's are fat
  • pixelated person blue shirt
  • text overlay humor
  • low-resolution fat meme

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text overlay

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • American's
  • are....
  • fat

Wordwall

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  • blue shirt
  • red collar
  • mouth open
  • American's
  • are....
  • fat
  • pixelated
  • black background
  • white text
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  • mid-expression
  • text layout
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 10:17 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)
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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
200708031114181128262302
Archive entry
200708031114181128262302.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 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#200708031114181128262302.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708031114181128262302.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016