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Black background with red pixel fragments and repeated white text "(-*Carlos*-)", partially obscured by a gray rectangle on the right.

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Black background with red pixel fragments and repeated white text "(-*Carlos*-)", partially obscured by a gray rectangle on the right.

Black background with red pixel fragments and repeated white text "(-*Carlos*-)", partially obscured by a gray rectangle on the right. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Inter…

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Animation Summary

The image shows a static composition with no visible motion changes; the gray rectangle and pixel fragments remain fixed across all observations.

Composition

  • horizontal of text with scattered red pixels
  • solid gray rectangle in bottom-right corner

Dense Caption

The image shows a black background filled with scattered red square pixels. White text reading "(-*Carlos*-)" appears multiple times in horizontal rows, each instance surrounded by red pixel fragments that vary slightly between repetitions. A solid light gray rectangular shape occupies the bottom-right corner of the frame, partially covering the rightmost text and pixel clusters. The visible content includes no additional objects or figures beyond these elements.

Description

  • Black background with red pixel fragments and repeated white text "(-*Carlos*-)", partially obscured by a gray rectangle 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: 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
  • 200712151703151993739349

Named Entities

  • Carlos

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red pixels black background white text Carlos
  • text (-*Carlos*-) repeated red square pixels
  • gray rectangle right side text obscured

Preprocessing Notes

  • The image contains a solid gray rectangle that partially obscures the right side, suggesting intentional cropping or overlay.
  • quarantined composition: horizontal rows of text with scattered red pixels

Visible Text

  • (-*Carlos*-)

Wordwall

  • red square pixels
  • black background
  • white text "(-*Carlos*-)", multiple instances
  • light gray rectangle on right

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200712151703151993739349
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:05 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.1 KB
Motion
Animated (5 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/74/74f472f98b20cde5024e946338687b3502e72339cb45aab2e2d374469b17dbb9.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:05 UTC
Archive ID
74f472f98b20cde5
SHA-256
74f472f98b20cde5024e946338687b3502e72339cb45aab2e2d374469b17dbb9
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:59 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.079782

OpenAI category scores

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Black background with red pixel fragments and repeated white text "(-*Carlos*-)", partially obscured by a gray rectangle on the right.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 02:15 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,054 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,170, response 703

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • red square pixels (object, 0.80)
  • white text carlos light gray rectangle (object, 0.80)
  • digital glitch art style (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text carlos red pixel fragments gray rectangle (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

The image shows a static composition with no visible motion changes; the gray rectangle and pixel fragments remain fixed across all observations.

Colors

  • black
  • red
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • horizontal of text with scattered red pixels
  • solid gray rectangle in bottom-right corner

Dense Caption

The image shows a black background filled with scattered red square pixels. White text reading "(-*Carlos*-)" appears multiple times in horizontal rows, each instance surrounded by red pixel fragments that vary slightly between repetitions. A solid light gray rectangular shape occupies the bottom-right corner of the frame, partially covering the rightmost text and pixel clusters. The visible content includes no additional objects or figures beyond these elements.

Description

  • Black background with red pixel fragments and repeated white text "(-*Carlos*-)", partially obscured by a gray rectangle 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: 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
  • 200712151703151993739349

Named Entities

  • Carlos

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red pixels black background white text Carlos
  • text (-*Carlos*-) repeated red square pixels
  • gray rectangle right side text obscured

Objects

  • red square pixels
  • white text "(-*Carlos*-)", light gray rectangle

Preprocessing Notes

  • The image contains a solid gray rectangle that partially obscures the right side, suggesting intentional cropping or overlay.
  • quarantined composition: horizontal rows of text with scattered red pixels

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • digital glitch art style

Subjects

  • text "(-*Carlos*-)", red pixel fragments, gray rectangle

Visible Text

  • (-*Carlos*-)

Wordwall

  • red square pixels
  • black background
  • white text "(-*Carlos*-)", multiple instances
  • light gray rectangle on right
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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
200712151703151993739349
Archive entry
200712151703151993739349.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:05 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#200712151703151993739349.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200712151703151993739349.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016