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Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and sunglasses on the left, blue background with pixelated text on the right.

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Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and sunglasses on the left, blue background with pixelated text on the right.

Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and sunglasses on the left, blue background with pixelated text on the right. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fr…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • left: person
  • right: text on blue background

Dense Caption

Left side shows a pixelated person with dark hair, dark sunglasses, light skin, and a dark jacket over a light shirt with multiple necklaces. Right side has a solid blue background with pixelated text: 'i skate' at top right, 'like a' at bottom left, 'pro dude' at bottom right. Text is black, background is bright blue. Image has low-resolution pixelation typical of early 2000s digital art.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and sunglasses on the left, blue background with pixelated text on the right.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person sunglasses blue background
  • i skate like a pro dude
  • pixelated text blue background
  • sunglasses multiple necklaces blue

Visible Text

  • i
  • skate
  • like
  • a
  • pro
  • dude

Wordwall

  • person with dark hair
  • dark sunglasses
  • light skin
  • dark jacket
  • multiple necklaces
  • solid blue background
  • pixelated text
  • i skate
  • like a
  • pro dude

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080722090617178653497
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 UTC
Archive ID
6eac4d4c7a43c88f
SHA-256
6eac4d4c7a43c88fbdd9ddec451f0b3c3eda58a22ef23385752b7861c2ddd085
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Assessed
August 8, 2026 at 09:29 UTC
Run
1275
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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July 23, 2026 at 16:53 UTC
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Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and sunglasses on the left, blue background with pixelated text on the right.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 13:42 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,460 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 630

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • light skin (color, 0.80)
  • casual (mood, 0.80)
  • confident (mood, 0.80)
  • jacket (object, 0.80)
  • necklaces (object, 0.80)
  • sunglasses (object, 0.80)
  • digital art (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • black
  • light skin
  • dark hair
  • light shirt

Composition

  • left: person
  • right: text on blue background

Dense Caption

Left side shows a pixelated person with dark hair, dark sunglasses, light skin, and a dark jacket over a light shirt with multiple necklaces. Right side has a solid blue background with pixelated text: 'i skate' at top right, 'like a' at bottom left, 'pro dude' at bottom right. Text is black, background is bright blue. Image has low-resolution pixelation typical of early 2000s digital art.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and sunglasses on the left, blue background with pixelated text on the right.

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

  • confident
  • casual

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person sunglasses blue background
  • i skate like a pro dude
  • pixelated text blue background
  • sunglasses multiple necklaces blue

Objects

  • sunglasses
  • necklaces
  • jacket

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • digital art

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • i
  • skate
  • like
  • a
  • pro
  • dude

Wordwall

  • person with dark hair
  • dark sunglasses
  • light skin
  • dark jacket
  • multiple necklaces
  • solid blue background
  • pixelated text
  • i skate
  • like a
  • pro dude
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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
20080722090617178653497
Archive entry
20080722090617178653497.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#20080722090617178653497.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080722090617178653497.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016