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Pixelated grayscale skull with 'be free' text overlaid, set against a black background.

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Pixelated grayscale skull with 'be free' text overlaid, set against a black background.

Pixelated grayscale skull with 'be free' text overlaid, set against a black background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2000s…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central skull
  • text overlaid on upper portion
  • solid black background

Dense Caption

The image is a static pixel art representation of a human skull rendered in shades of gray and black. The skull's eye sockets are dark voids, the nasal cavity is an irregular shape, and the jawline shows visible teeth. Overlaid on the upper portion of the skull is white text reading 'be free' in lowercase letters with a blocky pixelated font. The background is solid black. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation throughout.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale skull with 'be free' text overlaid, set against a black background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200710051629391039056704
  • FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Named Entities

  • be free

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixel art skull be free text
  • grayscale skull black background
  • text overlay 'be free' pixel art
  • low resolution skull image

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution from original source

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Subjects

  • skull

Visible Text

  • be free

Visually Supported Entities

  • text 'be free'

Wordwall

  • pixel art
  • skull
  • grayscale
  • black background
  • text overlay
  • be free
  • lowercase text
  • blocky font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200710051629391039056704
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:49 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.1 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8a/8aeb952f65feb68ee352d82cd245d1450d28047bce3faf996251a73e9e88c75c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:49 UTC
Archive ID
8aeb952f65feb68e
SHA-256
8aeb952f65feb68ee352d82cd245d1450d28047bce3faf996251a73e9e88c75c
Content-safety assessments (1)
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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
0.081767

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.918233onnx/unsafe0.081767onnx/nsfl0.042867onnx/nsfw0.038900
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Pixelated grayscale skull with 'be free' text overlaid, set against a black background.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 07:30 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,364 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,092, response 659

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • mysterious (mood, 0.80)
  • somber (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • skull (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • gray
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • central skull
  • text overlaid on upper portion
  • solid black background

Dense Caption

The image is a static pixel art representation of a human skull rendered in shades of gray and black. The skull's eye sockets are dark voids, the nasal cavity is an irregular shape, and the jawline shows visible teeth. Overlaid on the upper portion of the skull is white text reading 'be free' in lowercase letters with a blocky pixelated font. The background is solid black. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation throughout.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale skull with 'be free' text overlaid, set against a black background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200710051629391039056704
  • FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • somber
  • mysterious

Named Entities

  • be free

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixel art skull be free text
  • grayscale skull black background
  • text overlay 'be free' pixel art
  • low resolution skull image

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution from original source

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixel art
  • low resolution

Subjects

  • skull

Visible Text

  • be free

Visually Supported Entities

  • text 'be free'

Wordwall

  • pixel art
  • skull
  • grayscale
  • black background
  • text overlay
  • be free
  • lowercase text
  • blocky font
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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
200710051629391039056704
Archive entry
200710051629391039056704.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:49 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#200710051629391039056704.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200710051629391039056704.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016