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Pixelated image of a person with outstretched arms holding a large sandwich, with 'THANKS' text overlaid on a dark background.

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Pixelated image of a person with outstretched arms holding a large sandwich, with 'THANKS' text overlaid on a dark background.

Pixelated image of a person with outstretched arms holding a large sandwich, with 'THANKS' text overlaid on a dark background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Frank…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered text
  • person in upper half
  • sandwich held horizontally
  • vertical lines on left

Dense Caption

Pixelated image shows a person with outstretched arms holding a large sandwich with visible layers of meat and bread. The person wears a brown shirt. Large white block letters spell 'THANKS' across the center. Background is dark with faint vertical lines on the left. Lower portion has brown and yellow pixel clusters. Image has low resolution with visible pixelation. No motion is present.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with outstretched arms holding a large sandwich, with 'THANKS' text overlaid on a dark 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 20081124193950283179344

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person holding sandwich thanks
  • pixelated thanks text
  • brown shirt sandwich
  • low resolution thanks icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled

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

Visible Text

  • THANKS

Wordwall

  • person
  • outstretched arms
  • sandwich
  • meat layers
  • bread
  • brown shirt
  • white text
  • THANKS
  • dark background
  • vertical lines
  • low resolution
  • pixelation
  • brown clusters
  • yellow clusters

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081124193950283179344
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8e/8e820a3d14c04cdf1934eeb648f48a6629d6c861ed767aca08e3a324d3a7499f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 UTC
Archive ID
8e820a3d14c04cdf
SHA-256
8e820a3d14c04cdf1934eeb648f48a6629d6c861ed767aca08e3a324d3a7499f
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:56 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.082523

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image of a person with outstretched arms holding a large sandwich, with 'THANKS' text overlaid on a dark background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 10:29 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,248 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,092, response 804

Review tags

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  • outstretched arms (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
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  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)
  • sandwich (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding
  • outstretched arms

Colors

  • brown
  • white
  • black
  • yellow
  • green
  • orange

Composition

  • centered text
  • person in upper half
  • sandwich held horizontally
  • vertical lines on left

Dense Caption

Pixelated image shows a person with outstretched arms holding a large sandwich with visible layers of meat and bread. The person wears a brown shirt. Large white block letters spell 'THANKS' across the center. Background is dark with faint vertical lines on the left. Lower portion has brown and yellow pixel clusters. Image has low resolution with visible pixelation. No motion is present.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with outstretched arms holding a large sandwich, with 'THANKS' text overlaid on a dark 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 20081124193950283179344

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • grateful
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person holding sandwich thanks
  • pixelated thanks text
  • brown shirt sandwich
  • low resolution thanks icon

Objects

  • sandwich

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky text

Subjects

  • person
  • sandwich

Visible Text

  • THANKS

Wordwall

  • person
  • outstretched arms
  • sandwich
  • meat layers
  • bread
  • brown shirt
  • white text
  • THANKS
  • dark background
  • vertical lines
  • low resolution
  • pixelation
  • brown clusters
  • yellow clusters
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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
20081124193950283179344
Archive entry
20081124193950283179344.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 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#20081124193950283179344.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081124193950283179344.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016