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Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and light skin, next to cyan text reading 'Weird N.J' on a dark blue background.

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Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and light skin, next to cyan text reading 'Weird N.J' on a dark blue background.

Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and light skin, next to cyan text reading 'Weird N.J' on a dark blue background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation Summary

  • no visible animation changes

Composition

  • split screen
  • left portrait
  • right text
  • black border on left
  • centered text on right

Dense Caption

The image is split into two sections. On the left, a pixelated portrait shows a person with dark hair and light skin, wearing a dark top, against a blurred background with light and dark tones. On the right, cyan pixelated text reads 'Weird N.J' on a solid dark blue background. The left section has a black border. The image is static with no visible animation changes. The text 'Weird N.J' is clearly legible. The overall style is low-resolution digital art with a retro aesthetic. The left section's background appears to be an outdoor or natural setting with indistinct shapes. The right section's background is a uniform dark blue. The text is centered vertically on the right side. The left section's portrait is cropped to show the upper body and head. The image has a grainy texture due to pixelation. The colors used are primarily shades of gray, brown, and green on the left, and cyan and dark blue on the right. The text 'N.J' is followed by a period. The word 'Weird' is positioned above 'N.J'.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and light skin, next to cyan text reading 'Weird N.J' on a dark blue background.

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

Metadata Only Entities

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • weird n.j buddy icon
  • cyan text dark blue background
  • pixelated portrait weird n.j
  • split screen buddy icon
  • n.j text with period
  • weird n.j cyan text
  • buddy icon weird n.j
  • n.j weird text

Preprocessing Notes

  • image is static, no animation observed

Visible Text

  • Weird N.J

Wordwall

  • pixelated portrait
  • dark hair
  • light skin
  • dark top
  • blurred background
  • cyan text
  • dark blue background
  • black border
  • retro digital art
  • text 'Weird N.J'
  • grainy texture
  • outdoor setting
  • centered text
  • uniform background
  • shades of gray
  • shades of brown
  • shades of green
  • cyan and dark blue colors
  • text 'N.J' with period
  • text 'Weird' above 'N.J'

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708051837321313361125
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/89/8920c9b589a78735056e23d48fa7bc976b229a30f30ce1ddea5a8a99954aaf60.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC
Archive ID
8920c9b589a78735
SHA-256
8920c9b589a78735056e23d48fa7bc976b229a30f30ce1ddea5a8a99954aaf60
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:39 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.092129

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
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Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and light skin, next to cyan text reading 'Weird N.J' on a dark blue background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 19:27 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,669 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,147, response 921

Review tags

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  • person (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • no visible animation changes

Colors

  • gray
  • brown
  • green
  • cyan
  • dark blue
  • black

Composition

  • split screen
  • left portrait
  • right text
  • black border on left
  • centered text on right

Dense Caption

The image is split into two sections. On the left, a pixelated portrait shows a person with dark hair and light skin, wearing a dark top, against a blurred background with light and dark tones. On the right, cyan pixelated text reads 'Weird N.J' on a solid dark blue background. The left section has a black border. The image is static with no visible animation changes. The text 'Weird N.J' is clearly legible. The overall style is low-resolution digital art with a retro aesthetic. The left section's background appears to be an outdoor or natural setting with indistinct shapes. The right section's background is a uniform dark blue. The text is centered vertically on the right side. The left section's portrait is cropped to show the upper body and head. The image has a grainy texture due to pixelation. The colors used are primarily shades of gray, brown, and green on the left, and cyan and dark blue on the right. The text 'N.J' is followed by a period. The word 'Weird' is positioned above 'N.J'.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and light skin, next to cyan text reading 'Weird N.J' on a dark blue background.

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

Metadata Only Entities

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • weird n.j buddy icon
  • cyan text dark blue background
  • pixelated portrait weird n.j
  • split screen buddy icon
  • n.j text with period
  • weird n.j cyan text
  • buddy icon weird n.j
  • n.j weird text

Preprocessing Notes

  • image is static, no animation observed

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital art

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • Weird N.J

Wordwall

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  • light skin
  • dark top
  • blurred background
  • cyan text
  • dark blue background
  • black border
  • retro digital art
  • text 'Weird N.J'
  • grainy texture
  • outdoor setting
  • centered text
  • uniform background
  • shades of gray
  • shades of brown
  • shades of green
  • cyan and dark blue colors
  • text 'N.J' with period
  • text 'Weird' above 'N.J'
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 10:31 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)
Raw JSON
Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
200708051837321313361125
Archive entry
200708051837321313361125.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 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#200708051837321313361125.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708051837321313361125.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016