A pixelated image shows a person holding a black telephone receiver to their ear against a red background with partial text.

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A pixelated image shows a person holding a black telephone receiver to their ear against a red background with partial text.

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Composition

  • split composition: left person, right text on red background

Dense Caption

The left side of the image features a pixelated depiction of a person with light brown hair wearing a dark suit jacket and white shirt, holding a black rotary-style telephone receiver close to their right ear. The background on the left consists of vertical beige and brown striped patterns resembling curtains or walls. On the right side, there is a solid bright red rectangular area containing partial black text that reads "im the man" with visible letters 'i', 'm', 't', 'h', 'e', 'm', 'a', 'n'. The image has low resolution and pixelation typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • A pixelated image shows a person holding a black telephone receiver to their ear against a red background with partial 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

  • celebrities

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person holding telephone receiver
  • red background text im the man
  • pixelated celebrity phone icon
  • split composition phone and text

Visible Text

  • im the man

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • person
  • telephone receiver
  • black rotary phone
  • dark suit jacket
  • white shirt
  • light brown hair
  • beige curtains
  • red background
  • partial text "im the man"
  • pixelated
  • low resolution

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080513192208820509181
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:26 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/6a/6aa78091f68f126833098f5ad0f2c0bcf540b120f152ce618adb511ddf2f0ba4.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:26 UTC
Archive ID
6aa78091f68f1268
SHA-256
6aa78091f68f126833098f5ad0f2c0bcf540b120f152ce618adb511ddf2f0ba4
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 5, 2026 at 15:03 UTC
Run
1269
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000481

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.000481falseharassment0.000070falsesexual0.000042falseself-harm0.000013falsehate0.000009falseillicit0.000006falseviolence/graphic0.000005falseself-harm/intent0.000003falseharassment/threatening0.000003falseillicit/violent0.000002falseself-harm/instructions0.000001falsesexual/minors0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000false

Qwen scheduling evidence

Evidence strength is retained for queueing and audit. It does not set the public content-safety verdict.

EvidenceStrengthInputenrichment/visual/violence0.500000image
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:30 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.135029

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A pixelated image shows a person holding a black telephone receiver to their ear against a red background with partial text.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 14:58 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
13,986 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,142, response 621

Review tags

  • holding telephone receiver to ear (action, 0.80)
  • beige (color, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • telephone receiver (object, 0.80)
  • digital graphic (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding telephone receiver to ear

Colors

  • black
  • dark blue
  • white
  • light brown
  • beige
  • brown
  • red

Composition

  • split composition: left person, right text on red background

Dense Caption

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Description

  • A pixelated image shows a person holding a black telephone receiver to their ear against a red background with partial 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

  • celebrities

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person holding telephone receiver
  • red background text im the man
  • pixelated celebrity phone icon
  • split composition phone and text

Objects

  • telephone receiver

Style

  • pixelated
  • low resolution
  • digital graphic

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • im the man

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

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  • telephone receiver
  • black rotary phone
  • dark suit jacket
  • white shirt
  • light brown hair
  • beige curtains
  • red background
  • partial text "im the man"
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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
20080513192208820509181
Archive entry
20080513192208820509181.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:26 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