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A pixelated image of a person with dark hair and a neutral expression, accompanied by blue text on black backgrounds.

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A pixelated image of a person with dark hair and a neutral expression, accompanied by blue text on black backgrounds.

A pixelated image of a person with dark hair and a neutral expression, accompanied by blue text on black backgrounds. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Frank…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • text on black backgrounds
  • solid gray quadrant

Dense Caption

The image is divided into four quadrants. Top-left quadrant shows a person with dark hair and a neutral expression against a brown and orange background. Top-right quadrant contains blue pixelated text "the pete face..." on a black background. Bottom-left quadrant contains blue pixelated text "it's harder than it looks!" on a black background. Bottom-right quadrant is solid light gray. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated style typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • A pixelated image of a person with dark hair and a neutral expression, accompanied by blue text on black backgrounds.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pete face
  • it's harder than it looks
  • pixelated text
  • four quadrant image

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid

Visible Text

  • the pete face...
  • it's harder than it looks!

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • four quadrants
  • dark hair
  • neutral expression
  • blue text
  • black background
  • light gray background
  • brown and orange background
  • text: the pete face...
  • text: it's harder than it looks!

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070902130011841601516
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.9 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/71/71d39918c70c27e53c0febde843268d87606370428779d83380d9e5282e4e91e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 UTC
Archive ID
71d39918c70c27e5
SHA-256
71d39918c70c27e53c0febde843268d87606370428779d83380d9e5282e4e91e
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 14, 2026 at 20:47 UTC
Run
1290
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.023365

OpenAI category scores

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onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:56 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.146900

OpenAI category scores

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

A pixelated image of a person with dark hair and a neutral expression, accompanied by blue text on black backgrounds.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 09:13 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,401 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 679

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark hair (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text heavy (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • blue
  • gray
  • brown
  • orange
  • dark hair

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • text on black backgrounds
  • solid gray quadrant

Dense Caption

The image is divided into four quadrants. Top-left quadrant shows a person with dark hair and a neutral expression against a brown and orange background. Top-right quadrant contains blue pixelated text "the pete face..." on a black background. Bottom-left quadrant contains blue pixelated text "it's harder than it looks!" on a black background. Bottom-right quadrant is solid light gray. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated style typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • A pixelated image of a person with dark hair and a neutral expression, accompanied by blue text on black backgrounds.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pete face
  • it's harder than it looks
  • pixelated text
  • four quadrant image

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text-heavy

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • the pete face...
  • it's harder than it looks!

Wordwall

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  • four quadrants
  • dark hair
  • neutral expression
  • blue text
  • black background
  • light gray background
  • brown and orange background
  • text: the pete face...
  • text: it's harder than it looks!
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 13:58 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)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
20070902130011841601516
Archive entry
20070902130011841601516.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 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#20070902130011841601516.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070902130011841601516.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016