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A pixelated image of a person wearing sunglasses and a dark cap, with text above the head changing across frames.

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A pixelated image of a person wearing sunglasses and a dark cap, with text above the head changing across frames.

A pixelated image of a person wearing sunglasses and a dark cap, with text above the head changing across frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIco…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • text changes from 'Matt' to 'Shadows' to '<33'
  • no other motion

Animation Summary

  • Text above the head changes from 'Matt' to 'Shadows' to '<33'

Composition

  • close-up face
  • text above head

Dense Caption

The image shows a close-up of a person's face in three panels. The top-left panel displays 'Matt' as white pixelated text above the head; the top-right panel shows 'Shadows' in similar text; the bottom-left panel has '<33' in white pixelated text. The person wears dark sunglasses and a black cap, with hands raised near ears. Background is dark. All panels share identical facial expression (mouth open), pose, clothing, and background. Text above head changes across frames.

Description

  • A pixelated image of a person wearing sunglasses and a dark cap, with text above the head changing across frames.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person sunglasses cap text Matt Shadows <33
  • pixelated face text change

Visible Text

  • Matt
  • Shadows
  • <33

Wordwall

  • person wearing sunglasses
  • black cap
  • hands raised near ears
  • white pixelated text
  • <33 text
  • Matt text
  • Shadows text
  • dark background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071028104241232784040
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.6 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/7e/7ed8f20ccb46cbe27c4f35ee23fb8b718ad27730c0bcb7dc8dc1ed2771e09b8b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 UTC
Archive ID
7ed8f20ccb46cbe2
SHA-256
7ed8f20ccb46cbe27c4f35ee23fb8b718ad27730c0bcb7dc8dc1ed2771e09b8b
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:19 UTC
Run
1087
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.096160

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.911949onnx/unsafe0.096160onnx/nsfw0.048550onnx/nsfl0.047610
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A pixelated image of a person wearing sunglasses and a dark cap, with text above the head changing across frames.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 13:22 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,119 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,106, response 573

Review tags

  • hands raised near ears (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • cap (object, 0.80)
  • sunglasses (object, 0.80)
  • text changes from matt to shadows to 33 (other, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • hands raised near ears

Animation

  • text changes from 'Matt' to 'Shadows' to '<33'
  • no other motion

Animation Summary

  • Text above the head changes from 'Matt' to 'Shadows' to '<33'

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray
  • brown

Composition

  • close-up face
  • text above head

Dense Caption

The image shows a close-up of a person's face in three panels. The top-left panel displays 'Matt' as white pixelated text above the head; the top-right panel shows 'Shadows' in similar text; the bottom-left panel has '<33' in white pixelated text. The person wears dark sunglasses and a black cap, with hands raised near ears. Background is dark. All panels share identical facial expression (mouth open), pose, clothing, and background. Text above head changes across frames.

Description

  • A pixelated image of a person wearing sunglasses and a dark cap, with text above the head changing across frames.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person sunglasses cap text Matt Shadows <33
  • pixelated face text change

Objects

  • sunglasses
  • cap

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • Matt
  • Shadows
  • <33

Wordwall

  • person wearing sunglasses
  • black cap
  • hands raised near ears
  • white pixelated text
  • <33 text
  • Matt text
  • Shadows text
  • dark background
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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
20071028104241232784040
Archive entry
20071028104241232784040.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 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#20071028104241232784040.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071028104241232784040.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016