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Pixelated image with a black text bar displaying 'hi weiner' over an abstract background of teal, yellow, and brown shapes.

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Pixelated image with a black text bar displaying 'hi weiner' over an abstract background of teal, yellow, and brown shapes.

Pixelated image with a black text bar displaying 'hi weiner' over an abstract background of teal, yellow, and brown shapes. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIc…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • horizontal text bar centered
  • abstract background shapes

Dense Caption

The icon is pixelated. A solid black rectangular bar spans horizontally across the middle of the image containing white sans-serif text reading 'hi weiner'. The letters have slight gray anti-aliasing on their edges. Behind the text bar, the background consists of abstract blocky shapes in teal, yellow, and brown tones with no discernible figures or objects. The overall resolution is low, typical of early 2000s digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated image with a black text bar displaying 'hi weiner' over an abstract background of teal, yellow, and brown shapes.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hi weiner pixel art
  • teal yellow brown background
  • black text bar icon
  • low resolution buddy icon

Preprocessing Notes

untrustedSourceHintsJson contains multiple era and collection hints but no pixel evidence supports them; all claims in metadataNotConfirmedByImage are excluded from identityHypotheses, namedEntities,

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

Visible Text

  • hi weiner

Visually Supported Entities

  • weiner

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • black text bar
  • 'hi weiner' text
  • teal background
  • yellow accents
  • brown shapes

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080720134051523063079
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.8 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/6c/6c5b5f905e98b27611c1a6709dfa0750db18ebcb88129c6b91afde4469c4cb5b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 UTC
Archive ID
6c5b5f905e98b276
SHA-256
6c5b5f905e98b27611c1a6709dfa0750db18ebcb88129c6b91afde4469c4cb5b
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:50 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.073827

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image with a black text bar displaying 'hi weiner' over an abstract background of teal, yellow, and brown shapes.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 13:22 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,071 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,090, response 723

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • teal (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • teal
  • yellow
  • brown
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • horizontal text bar centered
  • abstract background shapes

Dense Caption

The icon is pixelated. A solid black rectangular bar spans horizontally across the middle of the image containing white sans-serif text reading 'hi weiner'. The letters have slight gray anti-aliasing on their edges. Behind the text bar, the background consists of abstract blocky shapes in teal, yellow, and brown tones with no discernible figures or objects. The overall resolution is low, typical of early 2000s digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated image with a black text bar displaying 'hi weiner' over an abstract background of teal, yellow, and brown shapes.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hi weiner pixel art
  • teal yellow brown background
  • black text bar icon
  • low resolution buddy icon

Preprocessing Notes

untrustedSourceHintsJson contains multiple era and collection hints but no pixel evidence supports them; all claims in metadataNotConfirmedByImage are excluded from identityHypotheses, namedEntities,

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

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • blocky

Visible Text

  • hi weiner

Visually Supported Entities

  • weiner

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • black text bar
  • 'hi weiner' text
  • teal background
  • yellow accents
  • brown shapes
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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
20080720134051523063079
Archive entry
20080720134051523063079.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 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#20080720134051523063079.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080720134051523063079.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016