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A pixelated image of a person with long dark hair holding a guitar, with blue text above the head.

A pixelated image of a person with long dark hair holding a guitar, with blue text above the head. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered subject
  • text above subject

Dense Caption

The image shows a person with long dark hair holding a white electric guitar with a dark pickguard. The person wears a dark purple shirt. The background is a solid dark blue. Blue pixelated text appears above the person's head; the left side reads "malmsteen" and the right side reads "rocks". The image has a low-resolution, pixelated style typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • A pixelated image of a person with long dark hair holding a guitar, with blue text above the head.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Yngwie Malmsteen

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

Named Entities

  • Yngwie Malmsteen

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Yngwie Malmsteen guitar
  • malmsteen rocks guitar
  • pixelated guitar icon
  • dark blue background guitar

Objects

  • guitar

Visible Text

  • malmsteen
  • rocks

Visually Supported Entities

  • Yngwie Malmsteen

Wordwall

  • long dark hair
  • white electric guitar
  • dark purple shirt
  • dark blue background
  • blue pixelated text
  • malmsteen
  • rocks
  • low-resolution
  • pixelated style

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070805194512349696379
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
3.8 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/69/69991c6323f3386220b841cb1ea9bd57597888d6539bfaca7fdea91a35182cc2.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC
Archive ID
69991c6323f33862
SHA-256
69991c6323f3386220b841cb1ea9bd57597888d6539bfaca7fdea91a35182cc2
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:48 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.116670

OpenAI category scores

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

A pixelated image of a person with long dark hair holding a guitar, with blue text above the head.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 19:29 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,965 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,142, response 655

Review tags

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  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • dark purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
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  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding

Colors

  • dark blue
  • dark purple
  • white
  • blue

Composition

  • centered subject
  • text above subject

Dense Caption

The image shows a person with long dark hair holding a white electric guitar with a dark pickguard. The person wears a dark purple shirt. The background is a solid dark blue. Blue pixelated text appears above the person's head; the left side reads "malmsteen" and the right side reads "rocks". The image has a low-resolution, pixelated style typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • A pixelated image of a person with long dark hair holding a guitar, with blue text above the head.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Yngwie Malmsteen

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

Mood

  • neutral

Named Entities

  • Yngwie Malmsteen

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Yngwie Malmsteen guitar
  • malmsteen rocks guitar
  • pixelated guitar icon
  • dark blue background guitar

Objects

  • guitar

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • malmsteen
  • rocks

Visually Supported Entities

  • Yngwie Malmsteen

Wordwall

  • long dark hair
  • white electric guitar
  • dark purple shirt
  • dark blue background
  • blue pixelated text
  • malmsteen
  • rocks
  • low-resolution
  • pixelated style
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 10:31 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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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
20070805194512349696379
Archive entry
20070805194512349696379.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#20070805194512349696379.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070805194512349696379.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016