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A pixelated image of a shirtless man with dark hair standing against a blue background, with red and gray sections containing text.

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A pixelated image of a shirtless man with dark hair standing against a blue background, with red and gray sections containing text.

A pixelated image of a shirtless man with dark hair standing against a blue background, with red and gray sections containing text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • top-left: man
  • top-right: red with text
  • bottom-left: red with text
  • bottom-right: gray

Dense Caption

The image is divided into four quadrants. Top-left quadrant shows a shirtless man with dark hair, standing with one hand on his hip against a blue background. Top-right quadrant is solid red with the text "bot" in black pixelated font. Bottom-left quadrant is solid red with the text "staff" in black pixelated font. Bottom-right quadrant is solid gray. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated style typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • A pixelated image of a shirtless man with dark hair standing against a blue background, with red and gray sections containing text.

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 topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • shirtless man blue background
  • red gray text bot staff
  • pixelated four quadrant
  • bot staff text

Visible Text

  • bot
  • staff

Wordwall

  • shirtless man
  • dark hair
  • hand on hip
  • blue background
  • red quadrant
  • gray quadrant
  • text bot
  • text staff
  • pixelated font
  • four-quadrant layout

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708010545142043096423
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/82/82235b03da004618feb2b92bbdb6abef86100a9818ac384cb859a42ddd473329.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 UTC
Archive ID
82235b03da004618
SHA-256
82235b03da004618feb2b92bbdb6abef86100a9818ac384cb859a42ddd473329
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 25, 2026 at 18:09 UTC
Run
1343
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.120889

OpenAI category scores

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 24, 2026 at 02:17 UTC
Run
1171
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.204059

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagsexual0.204059falseviolence0.010213falseself-harm0.000493falseself-harm/intent0.000216falseviolence/graphic0.000031falseself-harm/instructions0.000004falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:26 UTC
Run
1105
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.523610

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.912751onnx/unsafe0.523610onnx/nsfw0.473388onnx/nsfl0.050222
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A pixelated image of a shirtless man with dark hair standing against a blue background, with red and gray sections containing text.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 17:09 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,553 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 586

Review tags

  • hand on hip (action, 0.80)
  • standing (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • skin tone (color, 0.80)
  • four quadrant layout (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • shirtless man (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • standing
  • hand on hip

Colors

  • red
  • gray
  • blue
  • black
  • skin tone

Composition

  • top-left: man
  • top-right: red with text
  • bottom-left: red with text
  • bottom-right: gray

Dense Caption

The image is divided into four quadrants. Top-left quadrant shows a shirtless man with dark hair, standing with one hand on his hip against a blue background. Top-right quadrant is solid red with the text "bot" in black pixelated font. Bottom-left quadrant is solid red with the text "staff" in black pixelated font. Bottom-right quadrant is solid gray. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated style typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • A pixelated image of a shirtless man with dark hair standing against a blue background, with red and gray sections containing text.

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 topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • shirtless man blue background
  • red gray text bot staff
  • pixelated four quadrant
  • bot staff text

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • four-quadrant layout

Subjects

  • shirtless man

Visible Text

  • bot
  • staff

Wordwall

  • shirtless man
  • dark hair
  • hand on hip
  • blue background
  • red quadrant
  • gray quadrant
  • text bot
  • text staff
  • pixelated font
  • four-quadrant layout
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 10:00 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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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
200708010545142043096423
Archive entry
200708010545142043096423.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 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#200708010545142043096423.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708010545142043096423.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016