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Pixelated image of a person with short brown hair and glasses, split into four quadrants with red and gray backgrounds and pixelated text.

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Pixelated image of a person with short brown hair and glasses, split into four quadrants with red and gray backgrounds and pixelated text.

Pixelated image of a person with short brown hair and glasses, split into four quadrants with red and gray backgrounds and pixelated text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from I…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four-quadrant layout

Dense Caption

The image is divided into four equal quadrants. Top-left quadrant shows a pixelated person with short brown hair, glasses, and a dark red and black garment against a brown background. Top-right quadrant has solid red background with black pixelated text reading "save a broom". Bottom-left quadrant has solid red background with black pixelated text reading "ride a seeker". Bottom-right quadrant is solid gray. All text uses a blocky, low-resolution font. The person's expression is neutral. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated style typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with short brown hair and glasses, split into four quadrants with red and gray backgrounds and pixelated text.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200707301451061665961290
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • save a broom ride a seeker
  • pixelated person glasses
  • four quadrant text
  • brown hair red background

Visible Text

  • save a broom
  • ride a seeker

Wordwall

  • pixelated person
  • brown hair
  • glasses
  • dark red garment
  • brown background
  • red background
  • gray background
  • save a broom
  • ride a seeker
  • blocky font
  • neutral expression
  • four-quadrant layout

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200707301451061665961290
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/68/6854d66f19a5c5b4208fc4426493f24e22ded3cb2440226a81e6ac6125c04277.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 UTC
Archive ID
6854d66f19a5c5b4
SHA-256
6854d66f19a5c5b4208fc4426493f24e22ded3cb2440226a81e6ac6125c04277
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 14, 2026 at 07:44 UTC
Run
1290
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001309

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.001309falseself-harm0.000505falseself-harm/intent0.000228falseviolence/graphic0.000038falsesexual0.000020falseself-harm/instructions0.000003falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:46 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.150590

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.925664onnx/unsafe0.150590onnx/nsfw0.108011onnx/nsfl0.042579
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated image of a person with short brown hair and glasses, split into four quadrants with red and gray backgrounds and pixelated text.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 16:28 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,702 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 688

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark red (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • brown
  • red
  • gray
  • black
  • dark red

Composition

  • four-quadrant layout

Dense Caption

The image is divided into four equal quadrants. Top-left quadrant shows a pixelated person with short brown hair, glasses, and a dark red and black garment against a brown background. Top-right quadrant has solid red background with black pixelated text reading "save a broom". Bottom-left quadrant has solid red background with black pixelated text reading "ride a seeker". Bottom-right quadrant is solid gray. All text uses a blocky, low-resolution font. The person's expression is neutral. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated style typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with short brown hair and glasses, split into four quadrants with red and gray backgrounds and pixelated text.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200707301451061665961290
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • save a broom ride a seeker
  • pixelated person glasses
  • four quadrant text
  • brown hair red background

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • save a broom
  • ride a seeker

Wordwall

  • pixelated person
  • brown hair
  • glasses
  • dark red garment
  • brown background
  • red background
  • gray background
  • save a broom
  • ride a seeker
  • blocky font
  • neutral expression
  • four-quadrant layout
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 09:49 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
200707301451061665961290
Archive entry
200707301451061665961290.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 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#200707301451061665961290.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200707301451061665961290.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016