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Pixelated image of a person with brown hair wearing yellow reflective sunglasses and a red shirt against a yellow and blue background with text "SO" and "EPIC".

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Pixelated image of a person with brown hair wearing yellow reflective sunglasses and a red shirt against a yellow and blue background with text "SO" and "EPIC".

Pixelated image of a person with brown hair wearing yellow reflective sunglasses and a red shirt against a yellow and blue background with text "SO" and "EPIC". Animated 50×50 GIF…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • portrait
  • top-right text
  • bottom-left text
  • color-blocked background

Dense Caption

The image is a pixelated portrait of a person with brown hair styled in a shaggy cut. The person wears yellow reflective sunglasses with visible pixelated reflections. They have a neutral expression and wear a red shirt. The background consists of yellow and blue pixelated sections. In the top-right corner, white text "SO" appears on a black background. In the bottom-left corner, yellow text "EPIC" appears on a black background. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics.

Description

Pixelated image of a person with brown hair wearing yellow reflective sunglasses and a red shirt against a yellow and blue background with text "SO" and "EPIC".

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 Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20090927085047855480600

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown hair yellow sunglasses red shirt
  • yellow background blue background
  • SO EPIC text
  • pixelated neutral expression
  • blocky low-resolution portrait
  • sunglasses reflection
  • text SO EPIC
  • yellow blue background colors

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be cropped to a square format

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

  • SO
  • EPIC

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • yellow reflective sunglasses
  • red shirt
  • yellow background
  • blue background
  • white text SO
  • yellow text EPIC
  • pixelated
  • neutral expression
  • blocky appearance

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090927085047855480600
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.8 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/74/744c438129fab1226bb4165b9419817db680081e6a54482e2b4bd56c84f3ea94.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 UTC
Archive ID
744c438129fab122
SHA-256
744c438129fab1226bb4165b9419817db680081e6a54482e2b4bd56c84f3ea94
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:58 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.125054

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.907506onnx/unsafe0.125054onnx/nsfw0.080335onnx/nsfl0.044719
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Pixelated image of a person with brown hair wearing yellow reflective sunglasses and a red shirt against a yellow and blue background with text "SO" and "EPIC".

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 18:23 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,832 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 849

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • sunglasses (object, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • brown
  • yellow
  • red
  • blue
  • white
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • portrait
  • top-right text
  • bottom-left text
  • color-blocked background

Dense Caption

The image is a pixelated portrait of a person with brown hair styled in a shaggy cut. The person wears yellow reflective sunglasses with visible pixelated reflections. They have a neutral expression and wear a red shirt. The background consists of yellow and blue pixelated sections. In the top-right corner, white text "SO" appears on a black background. In the bottom-left corner, yellow text "EPIC" appears on a black background. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics.

Description

Pixelated image of a person with brown hair wearing yellow reflective sunglasses and a red shirt against a yellow and blue background with text "SO" and "EPIC".

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 Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20090927085047855480600

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • yellow background blue background
  • SO EPIC text
  • pixelated neutral expression
  • blocky low-resolution portrait
  • sunglasses reflection
  • text SO EPIC
  • yellow blue background colors

Objects

  • sunglasses

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be cropped to a square format

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • 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
  • blocky
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • SO
  • EPIC

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • yellow reflective sunglasses
  • red shirt
  • yellow background
  • blue background
  • white text SO
  • yellow text EPIC
  • pixelated
  • neutral expression
  • blocky appearance
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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
20090927085047855480600
Archive entry
20090927085047855480600.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 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#20090927085047855480600.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090927085047855480600.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016