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A split image shows a dark, pixelated tattoo on the left and pixelated text on the right reading "A spot that never comes off" in black on white.

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A split image shows a dark, pixelated tattoo on the left and pixelated text on the right reading "A spot that never comes off" in black on white.

A split image shows a dark, pixelated tattoo on the left and pixelated text on the right reading "A spot that never comes off" in black on white. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split image
  • left side: tattoo on skin
  • right side: text on white background

Dense Caption

Left side: dark, pixelated image of a tattoo on skin; visible tattoo design includes curved lines and abstract shapes; skin tone is light gray with dark shading. Right side: white background with black pixelated text; text reads "A spot that never comes off" in four lines; font is blocky, monospaced, and pixelated; no animation present; image is static; no additional objects or subjects visible.

Description

A split image shows a dark, pixelated tattoo on the left and pixelated text on the right reading "A spot that never comes off" in black on white.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • tattoo pixelated text
  • A spot that never comes off
  • split image tattoo text
  • pixelated black white text
  • tattoo skin text
  • blocky font text
  • white background black text
  • tattoo never comes off

Visible Text

  • A spot that never comes off

Wordwall

  • tattoo
  • skin
  • pixelated
  • text
  • A spot that never comes off
  • white background
  • black text
  • blocky font
  • four lines
  • no animation

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708171211511134649896
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.1 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/77/7744f55bc47a3baab1f9f5146b7cb23711fcf96bc1457ac87c1820f7f923e242.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC
Archive ID
7744f55bc47a3baa
SHA-256
7744f55bc47a3baab1f9f5146b7cb23711fcf96bc1457ac87c1820f7f923e242
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:03 UTC
Run
1049
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.126228

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

A split image shows a dark, pixelated tattoo on the left and pixelated text on the right reading "A spot that never comes off" in black on white.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 01:23 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,159 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,146, response 645

Review tags

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  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
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  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • split image
  • left side: tattoo on skin
  • right side: text on white background

Dense Caption

Left side: dark, pixelated image of a tattoo on skin; visible tattoo design includes curved lines and abstract shapes; skin tone is light gray with dark shading. Right side: white background with black pixelated text; text reads "A spot that never comes off" in four lines; font is blocky, monospaced, and pixelated; no animation present; image is static; no additional objects or subjects visible.

Description

A split image shows a dark, pixelated tattoo on the left and pixelated text on the right reading "A spot that never comes off" in black on white.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • tattoo pixelated text
  • A spot that never comes off
  • split image tattoo text
  • pixelated black white text
  • tattoo skin text
  • blocky font text
  • white background black text
  • tattoo never comes off

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • monospaced

Subjects

  • tattoo
  • text

Visible Text

  • A spot that never comes off

Wordwall

  • tattoo
  • skin
  • pixelated
  • text
  • A spot that never comes off
  • white background
  • black text
  • blocky font
  • four lines
  • no animation
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 11:58 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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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
200708171211511134649896
Archive entry
200708171211511134649896.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 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#200708171211511134649896.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708171211511134649896.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016