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Pixelated image of a person with long dark hair wearing sunglasses and a dark jacket over a light shirt, next to purple text on a black background.

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Pixelated image of a person with long dark hair wearing sunglasses and a dark jacket over a light shirt, next to purple text on a black background.

Pixelated image of a person with long dark hair wearing sunglasses and a dark jacket over a light shirt, next to purple text on a black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy ic…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split left-right
  • text on right
  • figure on left

Dense Caption

The image is split into two sections. On the left, a pixelated figure with long dark hair wears dark sunglasses, a dark jacket, and a light-colored shirt with a patterned design. The background is light blue. On the right, against a black background, purple pixelated text reads "COOL" on the top line, "element" on the second line, "awesome" on the third line, and "adjo" on the bottom line. The text appears to be a partial or distorted rendering of "adjoin" or similar. The overall style is low-resolution pixel art with visible dithering and blocky edges.

Description

Pixelated image of a person with long dark hair wearing sunglasses and a dark jacket over a light shirt, next to purple text on a black background.

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 Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person sunglasses
  • purple text cool element
  • split image blue black background
  • low resolution pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be upscaled or low-resolution

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

Visible Text

  • COOL
  • element
  • awesome
  • adjo

Wordwall

  • pixelated figure
  • long dark hair
  • sunglasses
  • dark jacket
  • light shirt
  • light blue background
  • purple text
  • black background
  • COOL
  • element
  • awesome
  • adjo
  • low-resolution pixel art
  • dithering
  • blocky edges

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708310723461634467190
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.9 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/6b/6b576c480d2c9bc5747491f9ce9d2d755137a8804a83be79f39cc8edb894be37.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 UTC
Archive ID
6b576c480d2c9bc5
SHA-256
6b576c480d2c9bc5747491f9ce9d2d755137a8804a83be79f39cc8edb894be37
Content-safety assessments (3)
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Assessed
August 26, 2026 at 08:26 UTC
Run
1349
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000025

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 24, 2026 at 07:52 UTC
Run
1179
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:49 UTC
Run
1039
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated image of a person with long dark hair wearing sunglasses and a dark jacket over a light shirt, next to purple text on a black background.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 08:23 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,074 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,146, response 816

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • dark brown (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • confident (mood, 0.80)
  • stylish (mood, 0.80)
  • jacket (object, 0.80)
  • shirt (object, 0.80)
  • sunglasses (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • purple
  • black
  • light blue
  • dark brown
  • light brown
  • white

Composition

  • split left-right
  • text on right
  • figure on left

Dense Caption

The image is split into two sections. On the left, a pixelated figure with long dark hair wears dark sunglasses, a dark jacket, and a light-colored shirt with a patterned design. The background is light blue. On the right, against a black background, purple pixelated text reads "COOL" on the top line, "element" on the second line, "awesome" on the third line, and "adjo" on the bottom line. The text appears to be a partial or distorted rendering of "adjoin" or similar. The overall style is low-resolution pixel art with visible dithering and blocky edges.

Description

Pixelated image of a person with long dark hair wearing sunglasses and a dark jacket over a light shirt, next to purple text on a black background.

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 Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • confident
  • stylish

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person sunglasses
  • purple text cool element
  • split image blue black background
  • low resolution pixel art

Objects

  • sunglasses
  • jacket
  • shirt

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be upscaled or low-resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
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  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • COOL
  • element
  • awesome
  • adjo

Wordwall

  • pixelated figure
  • long dark hair
  • sunglasses
  • dark jacket
  • light shirt
  • light blue background
  • purple text
  • black background
  • COOL
  • element
  • awesome
  • adjo
  • low-resolution pixel art
  • dithering
  • blocky edges
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 13:44 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
200708310723461634467190
Archive entry
200708310723461634467190.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 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#200708310723461634467190.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708310723461634467190.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016