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Four- of pixelated character images with text "FOTE" above the top-right

Four- of pixelated character images with text "FOTE" above the top-right. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2000s to Mi…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four
  • top-left, top-right, bottom-left filled
  • bottom-right blank gray

Dense Caption

Top-left: person with dark hair and light-colored collar. Top-right: person in dark polo shirt with white background, text "FOTE" above head. Bottom-left: person with hand on forehead wearing light blue shirt. All panels have low-resolution pixelated rendering; bottom-right is blank gray.

Description

  • Four- of pixelated character images with text "FOTE" above the top-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
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080215160326634522619
  • franksicons
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Named Entities

  • FOTE

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • four pixelated character images FOTE
  • text FOTE top right person dark polo shirt
  • hand on forehead light blue shirt
  • blank gray bottom right

Objects

  • hand

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion observed in static frames
  • quarantined description: Four-panel grid of pixelated character images with text "FOTE" above the top-right panel.
  • quarantined wordwall: blank gray panel
  • quarantined wordwall: four-panel grid
  • quarantined composition: bottom-right panel blank gray
  • quarantined composition: top-left, top-right, bottom-left panels filled
  • quarantined composition: four-panel grid
  • quarantined retrieval: blank gray bottom right panel
  • quarantined retrieval: four panel pixelated character images FOTE

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains non-authoritative metadata only

Visible Text

  • FOTE

Visually Supported Entities

  • FOTE text

Wordwall

  • text FOTE
  • four
  • pixelated character images
  • dark hair
  • light-colored collar
  • dark polo shirt
  • hand on forehead
  • blank gray

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080215160326634522619
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:14 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
5.3 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/65/658f43f3c691cb1e663ee6e436086214501d701907106cd13736adf2dfeaa730.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:14 UTC
Archive ID
658f43f3c691cb1e
SHA-256
658f43f3c691cb1e663ee6e436086214501d701907106cd13736adf2dfeaa730
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 3, 2026 at 22:19 UTC
Run
1262
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000088

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagsexual0.000088falseharassment0.000022falseviolence0.000016falseviolence/graphic0.000011falseself-harm0.000009falseillicit0.000005falseself-harm/intent0.000003falsehate0.000002falsesexual/minors0.000001falseharassment/threatening0.000001falseillicit/violent0.000001falseself-harm/instructions0.000001falsehate/threatening0.000000false
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 27, 2026 at 14:01 UTC
Run
1196
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.010172

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.010172falseself-harm0.000524falseself-harm/intent0.000221falsesexual0.000119falseviolence/graphic0.000033falseself-harm/instructions0.000004falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:52 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.622823

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.926078onnx/unsafe0.622823onnx/nsfw0.578556onnx/nsfl0.044267
Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Four- of pixelated character images with text "FOTE" above the top-right

Reviewed
August 3, 2026 at 22:16 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,753 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 674

Review tags

  • holding head (action, 0.80)
  • looking down (action, 0.80)
  • standing (action, 0.80)
  • dark brown (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • pensive (mood, 0.80)
  • collar (object, 0.80)
  • hand (object, 0.80)
  • polo shirt (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • looking down
  • standing
  • holding head

Colors

  • dark brown
  • light blue
  • white
  • gray
  • black

Composition

  • four
  • top-left, top-right, bottom-left filled
  • bottom-right blank gray

Dense Caption

Top-left: person with dark hair and light-colored collar. Top-right: person in dark polo shirt with white background, text "FOTE" above head. Bottom-left: person with hand on forehead wearing light blue shirt. All panels have low-resolution pixelated rendering; bottom-right is blank gray.

Description

  • Four- of pixelated character images with text "FOTE" above the top-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
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080215160326634522619
  • franksicons
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • neutral
  • pensive

Named Entities

  • FOTE

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • four pixelated character images FOTE
  • text FOTE top right person dark polo shirt
  • hand on forehead light blue shirt
  • blank gray bottom right

Objects

  • collar
  • polo shirt
  • hand

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion observed in static frames
  • quarantined description: Four-panel grid of pixelated character images with text "FOTE" above the top-right panel.
  • quarantined wordwall: blank gray panel
  • quarantined wordwall: four-panel grid
  • quarantined composition: bottom-right panel blank gray
  • quarantined composition: top-left, top-right, bottom-left panels filled
  • quarantined composition: four-panel grid
  • quarantined retrieval: blank gray bottom right panel
  • quarantined retrieval: four panel pixelated character images FOTE

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains non-authoritative metadata only

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • FOTE

Visually Supported Entities

  • FOTE text

Wordwall

  • text FOTE
  • four
  • pixelated character images
  • dark hair
  • light-colored collar
  • dark polo shirt
  • hand on forehead
  • blank gray
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Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
20080215160326634522619
Archive entry
20080215160326634522619.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:14 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#20080215160326634522619.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080215160326634522619.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016