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Black-and-white pixelated image with a grayscale figure and multiple text blocks in a digital font.

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Black-and-white pixelated image with a grayscale figure and multiple text blocks in a digital font.

Black-and-white pixelated image with a grayscale figure and multiple text blocks in a digital font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Budd…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • figure on left
  • text blocks on right and bottom

Dense Caption

Black-and-white pixelated image with a grayscale figure on the left side, showing a person with a blurred face and a hand near their head. The background is solid black. Text appears in white pixelated font: 'again with the bariers' in the top right, 'wtf' in the bottom left, and 'I hate your bariers' in the bottom right. The text has spelling errors ('bariers' instead of 'barriers').

Description

  • Black-and-white pixelated image with a grayscale figure and multiple text blocks in a digital font.

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

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • wtf bariers
  • again with the bariers
  • I hate your bariers
  • pixelated text
  • grayscale figure
  • spelling errors
  • black background
  • angry mood

Preprocessing Notes

  • text contains spelling errors

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • 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

Visible Text

  • again with the bariers
  • wtf
  • I hate your bariers

Wordwall

  • grayscale figure
  • pixelated text
  • black background
  • spelling errors
  • wtf
  • again with the bariers
  • I hate your bariers

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200711232048351511006859
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:59 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.8 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8a/8abb7ce6707e66806920b9427f9fa7ee0f0dcd77c37c1450e47d59efd2d1d2ab.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:59 UTC
Archive ID
8abb7ce6707e6680
SHA-256
8abb7ce6707e66806920b9427f9fa7ee0f0dcd77c37c1450e47d59efd2d1d2ab
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 26, 2026 at 10:58 UTC
Run
1349
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.055631

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagharassment0.055631falsehate0.001181falsesexual0.000726falseviolence0.000542falseself-harm0.000502falseself-harm/intent0.000224falseself-harm/instructions0.000212falseviolence/graphic0.000027falseharassment/threatening0.000021falseillicit0.000015falseillicit/violent0.000003falsesexual/minors0.000002falsehate/threatening0.000001false

Qwen scheduling evidence

Evidence strength is retained for queueing and audit. It does not set the public content-safety verdict.

EvidenceStrengthInputenrichment/ocr/hate-or-harassment1.000000textenrichment/visual/hate-or-harassment0.500000image
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 16, 2026 at 03:35 UTC
Run
1295
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.065136

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagsexual0.065136falseviolence0.015962falseself-harm0.004666falseself-harm/intent0.000267falseself-harm/instructions0.000228falseviolence/graphic0.000031falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:40 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.139216

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.928220onnx/unsafe0.139216onnx/nsfw0.089703onnx/nsfl0.049513
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Black-and-white pixelated image with a grayscale figure and multiple text blocks in a digital font.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 10:52 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,144 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 745

Review tags

  • hand near head (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • angry (mood, 0.80)
  • frustrated (mood, 0.80)
  • digital font (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • grayscale figure (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • hand near head

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • figure on left
  • text blocks on right and bottom

Dense Caption

Black-and-white pixelated image with a grayscale figure on the left side, showing a person with a blurred face and a hand near their head. The background is solid black. Text appears in white pixelated font: 'again with the bariers' in the top right, 'wtf' in the bottom left, and 'I hate your bariers' in the bottom right. The text has spelling errors ('bariers' instead of 'barriers').

Description

  • Black-and-white pixelated image with a grayscale figure and multiple text blocks in a digital font.

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

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • frustrated
  • angry

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • wtf bariers
  • again with the bariers
  • I hate your bariers
  • pixelated text
  • grayscale figure
  • spelling errors
  • black background
  • angry mood

Preprocessing Notes

  • text contains spelling errors

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • 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

Style

  • pixelated
  • digital font

Subjects

  • grayscale figure

Visible Text

  • again with the bariers
  • wtf
  • I hate your bariers

Wordwall

  • grayscale figure
  • pixelated text
  • black background
  • spelling errors
  • wtf
  • again with the bariers
  • I hate your bariers
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 21:16 UTC
Run
53
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
200711232048351511006859
Archive entry
200711232048351511006859.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:59 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#200711232048351511006859.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200711232048351511006859.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016