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A pixelated image of a person with curly hair wearing a gray jacket, with text overlays changing across frames.

A pixelated image of a person with curly hair wearing a gray jacket, with text overlays changing across frames. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • text changes across frames

Animation Summary

  • Text overlays change sequentially: 'Yes It's' appears first, followed by 'True I'm A', then 'Nickaholic'.

Composition

  • person centered
  • text overlays top-left, middle-left, bottom-left
  • solid rectangle right side

Dense Caption

The image shows a person with dark curly hair and light skin wearing a gray jacket with a hood. The background is dark. In the top-left frame, the text 'Yes It's' appears in green pixelated letters on a black background. In the middle-left frame, the text 'True I'm A' appears in the same style. In the bottom-left frame, the text 'Nickaholic' appears. The right side of the image is a solid light gray rectangle. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated style typical of early 2000s digital art.

Description

  • A pixelated image of a person with curly hair wearing a gray jacket, with text overlays changing across frames.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • 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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20081006185805193086810

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person curly hair gray jacket text changes
  • green pixelated text low-resolution
  • solid light gray rectangle
  • text Yes It's True I'm A Nickaholic

Preprocessing Notes

  • image contains solid light gray rectangle on right side

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • Yes It's
  • True I'm A
  • Nickaholic

Wordwall

  • person with dark curly hair
  • gray jacket
  • light skin
  • green pixelated text
  • black background
  • solid light gray rectangle
  • low-resolution pixelated style

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081006185805193086810
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
5.9 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/6a/6abe98dc2383e7b96bd5d989b0307a5ab279a5538d49456832385aad7bd289d3.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC
Archive ID
6abe98dc2383e7b9
SHA-256
6abe98dc2383e7b96bd5d989b0307a5ab279a5538d49456832385aad7bd289d3
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:49 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.100871

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.928297onnx/unsafe0.100871onnx/nsfw0.063864onnx/nsfl0.037007
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A pixelated image of a person with curly hair wearing a gray jacket, with text overlays changing across frames.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 03:14 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,159 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 865

Review tags

  • text changes (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • gray jacket (object, 0.80)
  • solid light gray rectangle (object, 0.80)
  • digital art (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • text changes

Animation

  • text changes across frames

Animation Summary

  • Text overlays change sequentially: 'Yes It's' appears first, followed by 'True I'm A', then 'Nickaholic'.

Colors

  • gray
  • black
  • green
  • light gray
  • dark brown

Composition

  • person centered
  • text overlays top-left, middle-left, bottom-left
  • solid rectangle right side

Dense Caption

The image shows a person with dark curly hair and light skin wearing a gray jacket with a hood. The background is dark. In the top-left frame, the text 'Yes It's' appears in green pixelated letters on a black background. In the middle-left frame, the text 'True I'm A' appears in the same style. In the bottom-left frame, the text 'Nickaholic' appears. The right side of the image is a solid light gray rectangle. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated style typical of early 2000s digital art.

Description

  • A pixelated image of a person with curly hair wearing a gray jacket, with text overlays changing across frames.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • 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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20081006185805193086810

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person curly hair gray jacket text changes
  • green pixelated text low-resolution
  • solid light gray rectangle
  • text Yes It's True I'm A Nickaholic

Objects

  • gray jacket
  • solid light gray rectangle

Preprocessing Notes

  • image contains solid light gray rectangle on right side

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • digital art

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • Yes It's
  • True I'm A
  • Nickaholic

Wordwall

  • person with dark curly hair
  • gray jacket
  • light skin
  • green pixelated text
  • black background
  • solid light gray rectangle
  • low-resolution pixelated style
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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
20081006185805193086810
Archive entry
20081006185805193086810.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 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#20081006185805193086810.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081006185805193086810.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016