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Pixelated grayscale icon with abstract branching shapes and two large circular eyes, blue text reading 'Firster.' at the bottom.

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Pixelated grayscale icon with abstract branching shapes and two large circular eyes, blue text reading 'Firster.' at the bottom.

Pixelated grayscale icon with abstract branching shapes and two large circular eyes, blue text reading 'Firster.' at the bottom. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fra…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central figure
  • text at bottom

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixel art icon with a light gray background. The central figure has two large white circular eyes with dark gray pupils. Branching dark gray shapes extend from the head area, resembling antennae or abstract limbs. The lower portion features a white, cloud-like or smoke-like shape. At the bottom, blue pixelated text reads 'Firster.' with a period. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale icon with abstract branching shapes and two large circular eyes, blue text reading 'Firster.' at the bottom.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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
  • 200711301458421940552733

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixel art icon
  • two large white circular eyes
  • blue text Firster
  • abstract branching shapes

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected
  • static image

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

  • Firster.

Wordwall

  • grayscale pixel art
  • two large white circular eyes
  • dark gray branching shapes
  • white cloud-like lower shape
  • blue text 'Firster.'
  • light gray background
  • low-resolution
  • retro digital style

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200711301458421940552733
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:01 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.3 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/75/75ad44ea3935f128e198167a3b753aa291584021abef7879e3098c0adb44485c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:01 UTC
Archive ID
75ad44ea3935f128
SHA-256
75ad44ea3935f128e198167a3b753aa291584021abef7879e3098c0adb44485c
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:01 UTC
Run
1041
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.098868

OpenAI category scores

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

Pixelated grayscale icon with abstract branching shapes and two large circular eyes, blue text reading 'Firster.' at the bottom.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 12:35 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,499 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,093, response 717

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • abstract (mood, 0.80)
  • mysterious (mood, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • abstract branching figure (subject, 0.80)
  • two large circular eyes (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • gray
  • white
  • blue

Composition

  • central figure
  • text at bottom

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixel art icon with a light gray background. The central figure has two large white circular eyes with dark gray pupils. Branching dark gray shapes extend from the head area, resembling antennae or abstract limbs. The lower portion features a white, cloud-like or smoke-like shape. At the bottom, blue pixelated text reads 'Firster.' with a period. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale icon with abstract branching shapes and two large circular eyes, blue text reading 'Firster.' at the bottom.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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
  • 200711301458421940552733

Mood

  • mysterious
  • abstract

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixel art icon
  • two large white circular eyes
  • blue text Firster
  • abstract branching shapes

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected
  • static image

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

  • pixel art
  • grayscale
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • abstract branching figure
  • two large circular eyes

Visible Text

  • Firster.

Wordwall

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  • two large white circular eyes
  • dark gray branching shapes
  • white cloud-like lower shape
  • blue text 'Firster.'
  • light gray background
  • low-resolution
  • retro digital style
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 21:49 UTC
Run
53
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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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
200711301458421940552733
Archive entry
200711301458421940552733.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:01 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#200711301458421940552733.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200711301458421940552733.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016