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Pixelated image of a dog's face with brown and white fur, black nose, and dark eyes, overlaid with white text reading 'Skippy' against a gray background.

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Pixelated image of a dog's face with brown and white fur, black nose, and dark eyes, overlaid with white text reading 'Skippy' against a gray background.

Pixelated image of a dog's face with brown and white fur, black nose, and dark eyes, overlaid with white text reading 'Skippy' against a gray background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • cropped to head
  • text overlay
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Pixelated static image of a dog's face with brown and white fur, black nose, and dark eyes. The dog has a light brown and white face with darker brown patches on the ears and around the eyes. White text reading 'Skippy' is overlaid across the top of the dog's head. The background is a solid gray color. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics. The dog's expression appears neutral. The image is cropped to show only the dog's head and upper face.

Description

Pixelated image of a dog's face with brown and white fur, black nose, and dark eyes, overlaid with white text reading 'Skippy' against a gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • dog with text Skippy
  • pixelated dog face
  • brown white dog text
  • Skippy dog icon
  • gray background dog
  • low-resolution dog
  • text overlay dog
  • neutral dog face

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be upscaled from lower 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

Subjects

  • dog

Visible Text

  • Skippy

Wordwall

  • dog
  • brown fur
  • white fur
  • black nose
  • dark eyes
  • text 'Skippy'
  • gray background
  • pixelated
  • static
  • low-resolution
  • neutral expression
  • cropped to head
  • blocky appearance
  • dog face
  • brown patches
  • white text
  • solid background
  • facial features
  • dog's head
  • text overlay

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708110848521628484600
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.9 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/70/705ade36d7e0646ad50c09e83cfe264fde72ed506528cb06df336574eb38195b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 UTC
Archive ID
705ade36d7e0646a
SHA-256
705ade36d7e0646ad50c09e83cfe264fde72ed506528cb06df336574eb38195b
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:54 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.071979

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated image of a dog's face with brown and white fur, black nose, and dark eyes, overlaid with white text reading 'Skippy' against a gray background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 22:07 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,838 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,091, response 771

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • dog (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • brown
  • white
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • cropped to head
  • text overlay
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Pixelated static image of a dog's face with brown and white fur, black nose, and dark eyes. The dog has a light brown and white face with darker brown patches on the ears and around the eyes. White text reading 'Skippy' is overlaid across the top of the dog's head. The background is a solid gray color. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics. The dog's expression appears neutral. The image is cropped to show only the dog's head and upper face.

Description

Pixelated image of a dog's face with brown and white fur, black nose, and dark eyes, overlaid with white text reading 'Skippy' against a gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • dog with text Skippy
  • pixelated dog face
  • brown white dog text
  • Skippy dog icon
  • gray background dog
  • low-resolution dog
  • text overlay dog
  • neutral dog face

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be upscaled from lower 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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • static

Subjects

  • dog

Visible Text

  • Skippy

Wordwall

  • dog
  • brown fur
  • white fur
  • black nose
  • dark eyes
  • text 'Skippy'
  • gray background
  • pixelated
  • static
  • low-resolution
  • neutral expression
  • cropped to head
  • blocky appearance
  • dog face
  • brown patches
  • white text
  • solid background
  • facial features
  • dog's head
  • text overlay
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 11:14 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
200708110848521628484600
Archive entry
200708110848521628484600.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 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#200708110848521628484600.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708110848521628484600.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016