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Pixelated image of a red-skinned character with a blue background, featuring white text reading 'rip lil brox3' at the bottom.

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Pixelated image of a red-skinned character with a blue background, featuring white text reading 'rip lil brox3' at the bottom.

Pixelated image of a red-skinned character with a blue background, featuring white text reading 'rip lil brox3' at the bottom. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Frank…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • character centered
  • text at bottom
  • left side partial figure

Dense Caption

Pixelated image shows a red-skinned character with a blue background. Character has a dark blue outfit. Left hand is raised in a gesture. White text at bottom reads 'rip lil brox3' with 'brox3' having a pixelated 'x' replacing the 'o'. Background is solid blue. Character's face is partially obscured by pixelation. Image has low resolution typical of early 2000s digital art. Text is in a blocky, pixelated font. Character appears to be standing upright. Left side of image shows partial view of another figure or object in muted tones.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a red-skinned character with a blue background, featuring white text reading 'rip lil brox3' at the bottom.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • 20070821003259534530473

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red character blue background
  • rip lil brox3 pixelated
  • buddy icon red blue
  • low resolution pixel art
  • raised hand text
  • brox3 text
  • pixelated font
  • muted tones left

Preprocessing Notes

  • low resolution
  • pixelation

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 topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • rip lil brox3

Visually Supported Entities

  • brox3

Wordwall

  • red-skinned character
  • blue background
  • dark blue outfit
  • raised left hand
  • white text
  • rip lil brox3
  • pixelated font
  • low resolution
  • solid blue background
  • partially obscured face
  • muted tones on left

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070821003259534530473
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/75/75e8f0c496406c936de1ba73e9e1a7550f26a56c2263efed8373abcc7302a9c3.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 UTC
Archive ID
75e8f0c496406c93
SHA-256
75e8f0c496406c936de1ba73e9e1a7550f26a56c2263efed8373abcc7302a9c3
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
0.083178

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.916822onnx/unsafe0.083178onnx/nsfw0.046007onnx/nsfl0.037171
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated image of a red-skinned character with a blue background, featuring white text reading 'rip lil brox3' at the bottom.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 03:07 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,581 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,092, response 829

Review tags

  • raised left hand (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • muted tones (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • memorial (mood, 0.80)
  • somber (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • red skinned character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • raised left hand

Colors

  • red
  • blue
  • dark blue
  • white
  • muted tones

Composition

  • character centered
  • text at bottom
  • left side partial figure

Dense Caption

Pixelated image shows a red-skinned character with a blue background. Character has a dark blue outfit. Left hand is raised in a gesture. White text at bottom reads 'rip lil brox3' with 'brox3' having a pixelated 'x' replacing the 'o'. Background is solid blue. Character's face is partially obscured by pixelation. Image has low resolution typical of early 2000s digital art. Text is in a blocky, pixelated font. Character appears to be standing upright. Left side of image shows partial view of another figure or object in muted tones.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a red-skinned character with a blue background, featuring white text reading 'rip lil brox3' at the bottom.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • 20070821003259534530473

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • somber
  • memorial

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red character blue background
  • rip lil brox3 pixelated
  • buddy icon red blue
  • low resolution pixel art
  • raised hand text
  • brox3 text
  • pixelated font
  • muted tones left

Preprocessing Notes

  • low resolution
  • pixelation

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • red-skinned character

Visible Text

  • rip lil brox3

Visually Supported Entities

  • brox3

Wordwall

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  • blue background
  • dark blue outfit
  • raised left hand
  • white text
  • rip lil brox3
  • pixelated font
  • low resolution
  • solid blue background
  • partially obscured face
  • muted tones on left
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 12:27 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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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
20070821003259534530473
Archive entry
20070821003259534530473.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 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#20070821003259534530473.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070821003259534530473.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016