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Pixelated static image with gray text on black background and red waveform at bottom.

Pixelated static image with gray text on black background and red waveform at bottom. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2000s to…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • top text
  • middle text
  • bottom waveform

Dense Caption

Static image with black background. Top section contains gray pixelated text: 'Howdy - howdy?'. Middle section contains gray pixelated text: 'Tally' above 'unrealized'. Bottom section contains red pixelated waveform with vertical peaks and valleys. All text and waveform are rendered in low-resolution pixel art style. No visible characters or objects other than text and waveform.

Description

  • Pixelated static image with gray text on black background and red waveform at bottom.

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

  • gray text black background red waveform
  • Howdy howdy Tally unrealized
  • pixelated waveform text
  • low resolution static image

Visible Text

  • Howdy - howdy?
  • Tally
  • unrealized

Wordwall

  • gray text
  • black background
  • red waveform
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • Howdy - howdy?
  • Tally
  • unrealized
  • vertical peaks
  • valleys

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200809011652021760747962
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.5 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/80/803000966aed99c2f4ea8cf28227cc13dc59c54aa45934faafdac775e2fa84d7.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC
Archive ID
803000966aed99c2
SHA-256
803000966aed99c2f4ea8cf28227cc13dc59c54aa45934faafdac775e2fa84d7
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 29, 2026 at 03:23 UTC
Run
15963
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000110

OpenAI category scores

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 15, 2026 at 17:09 UTC
Run
1295
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001212

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.001212falsesexual0.000900falseself-harm0.000510falseself-harm/intent0.000220falseself-harm/instructions0.000212falseviolence/graphic0.000032falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:22 UTC
Run
1095
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.141657

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated static image with gray text on black background and red waveform at bottom.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 22:34 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,034 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,088, response 617

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • gray
  • red

Composition

  • top text
  • middle text
  • bottom waveform

Dense Caption

Static image with black background. Top section contains gray pixelated text: 'Howdy - howdy?'. Middle section contains gray pixelated text: 'Tally' above 'unrealized'. Bottom section contains red pixelated waveform with vertical peaks and valleys. All text and waveform are rendered in low-resolution pixel art style. No visible characters or objects other than text and waveform.

Description

  • Pixelated static image with gray text on black background and red waveform at bottom.

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

  • gray text black background red waveform
  • Howdy howdy Tally unrealized
  • pixelated waveform text
  • low resolution static image

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • static

Visible Text

  • Howdy - howdy?
  • Tally
  • unrealized

Wordwall

  • gray text
  • black background
  • red waveform
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • Howdy - howdy?
  • Tally
  • unrealized
  • vertical peaks
  • valleys
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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
200809011652021760747962
Archive entry
200809011652021760747962.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 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#200809011652021760747962.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200809011652021760747962.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016