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Red text '<-xCarlosx->' appears above scattered white pixel clusters on a black background, with a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner.

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Red text '<-xCarlosx->' appears above scattered white pixel clusters on a black background, with a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner.

Red text '<-xCarlosx->' appears above scattered white pixel clusters on a black background, with a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon fro…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • top text
  • scattered pixel groups
  • bottom-right rectangle

Dense Caption

<-xCarlosx-> red text spans top and middle sections; white pixel clusters scatter across black background in five distinct groups (top-left, top-middle, top-right, bottom-left, bottom-middle); gray rectangle occupies bottom-right corner. Pixel clusters vary slightly in size and density between observations but maintain overall scattered pattern. No visible motion or animation changes detected.

Description

Red text '<-xCarlosx->' appears above scattered white pixel clusters on a black background, with a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Carlos

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 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

Named Entities

  • Carlos

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • <-xCarlosx-> text
  • white pixel clusters black background
  • gray rectangle bottom right
  • <-xCarlosx-> white pixels

Visible Text

  • <-xCarlosx->

Visually Supported Entities

  • Carlos

Wordwall

  • <-xCarlosx-> text
  • white pixel clusters
  • black background
  • gray rectangle
  • scattered pixels

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071215170059736267416
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/80/8023244be1b7b90e927cec87367238150b5f30337ef1784d443b137cc5a78c96.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:05 UTC
Archive ID
8023244be1b7b90e
SHA-256
8023244be1b7b90e927cec87367238150b5f30337ef1784d443b137cc5a78c96
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:26 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.144304

OpenAI category scores

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Red text '<-xCarlosx->' appears above scattered white pixel clusters on a black background, with a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 02:15 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,582 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,168, response 575

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • gray rectangle (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • pixel clusters (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • white
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • top text
  • scattered pixel groups
  • bottom-right rectangle

Dense Caption

<-xCarlosx-> red text spans top and middle sections; white pixel clusters scatter across black background in five distinct groups (top-left, top-middle, top-right, bottom-left, bottom-middle); gray rectangle occupies bottom-right corner. Pixel clusters vary slightly in size and density between observations but maintain overall scattered pattern. No visible motion or animation changes detected.

Description

Red text '<-xCarlosx->' appears above scattered white pixel clusters on a black background, with a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Carlos

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 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

Named Entities

  • Carlos

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • <-xCarlosx-> text
  • white pixel clusters black background
  • gray rectangle bottom right
  • <-xCarlosx-> white pixels

Objects

  • gray rectangle

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • text
  • pixel clusters

Visible Text

  • <-xCarlosx->

Visually Supported Entities

  • Carlos

Wordwall

  • <-xCarlosx-> text
  • white pixel clusters
  • black background
  • gray rectangle
  • scattered pixels
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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
20071215170059736267416
Archive entry
20071215170059736267416.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#20071215170059736267416.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071215170059736267416.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016