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Pixelated image of a person with red and blue color blocks, surrounded by text phrases in bold black-and-white lettering.

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Pixelated image of a person with red and blue color blocks, surrounded by text phrases in bold black-and-white lettering.

Pixelated image of a person with red and blue color blocks, surrounded by text phrases in bold black-and-white lettering. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive F…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • portrait on left
  • text on right

Dense Caption

Pixelated portrait of a person with red and blue color blocks on the left side, featuring a neutral expression. Surrounding text includes "he's a democrat?" in bold black lettering with white outline, "OH!!" in large bold black lettering with white outline, "I get it!" in bold black lettering with white outline, "OBAMA'S DONKEY" in bold black lettering with white outline, "Got a" in bold black lettering with white outline, and "!!" in bold black lettering with white outline. The background is white.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with red and blue color blocks, surrounded by text phrases in bold black-and-white lettering.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 200810251305351023258871
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • obama's donkey
  • he's a democrat
  • oh!!
  • i get it
  • buddy icon
  • pixelated portrait
  • red blue color blocks
  • bold black lettering

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Visible Text

  • he's a democrat?
  • OH!!
  • I get it!
  • OBAMA'S DONKEY
  • Got a
  • !!

Wordwall

  • red and blue color blocks
  • neutral expression
  • bold black lettering
  • white outline
  • OH!!
  • he's a democrat?
  • I get it!
  • OBAMA'S DONKEY
  • Got a
  • !!

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200810251305351023258871
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.9 KB
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/80/8074ae9bbf404d2aafb400099b3c7b3257127e6453a00bc5ca2eaabc8e5e852e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 UTC
Archive ID
8074ae9bbf404d2a
SHA-256
8074ae9bbf404d2aafb400099b3c7b3257127e6453a00bc5ca2eaabc8e5e852e
Content-safety assessments (1)
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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
0.095338

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated image of a person with red and blue color blocks, surrounded by text phrases in bold black-and-white lettering.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 05:36 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,072 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,166, response 782

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • provocative (mood, 0.80)
  • bold lettering (style, 0.80)
  • high contrast (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • blue
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • portrait on left
  • text on right

Dense Caption

Pixelated portrait of a person with red and blue color blocks on the left side, featuring a neutral expression. Surrounding text includes "he's a democrat?" in bold black lettering with white outline, "OH!!" in large bold black lettering with white outline, "I get it!" in bold black lettering with white outline, "OBAMA'S DONKEY" in bold black lettering with white outline, "Got a" in bold black lettering with white outline, and "!!" in bold black lettering with white outline. The background is white.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with red and blue color blocks, surrounded by text phrases in bold black-and-white lettering.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 200810251305351023258871
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

Mood

  • humorous
  • provocative

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • obama's donkey
  • he's a democrat
  • oh!!
  • i get it
  • buddy icon
  • pixelated portrait
  • red blue color blocks
  • bold black lettering

Preprocessing Notes

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  • bold lettering
  • high-contrast

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • he's a democrat?
  • OH!!
  • I get it!
  • OBAMA'S DONKEY
  • Got a
  • !!

Wordwall

  • red and blue color blocks
  • neutral expression
  • bold black lettering
  • white outline
  • OH!!
  • he's a democrat?
  • I get it!
  • OBAMA'S DONKEY
  • Got a
  • !!
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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
200810251305351023258871
Archive entry
200810251305351023258871.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 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#200810251305351023258871.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200810251305351023258871.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016