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Pixelated image of a person with short brown hair and sunglasses in a blue shirt, next to cyan text on black background.

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Pixelated image of a person with short brown hair and sunglasses in a blue shirt, next to cyan text on black background.

Pixelated image of a person with short brown hair and sunglasses in a blue shirt, next to cyan text on black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fr…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • person on left
  • text on right
  • centered text elements

Dense Caption

Pixelated image shows a person with short brown hair and dark sunglasses wearing a blue shirt with a dark collar. Background includes blurred green trees and sky. Cyan text on black background reads "'I'm frowning AT YOU'" with a line of dashes and "FRIEDBERG" below. Image has low resolution with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with short brown hair and sunglasses in a blue shirt, next to cyan text on black 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person frowning cyan text friedberg
  • pixelated image blue shirt sunglasses
  • frowning at you friedberg text
  • cyan text black background person

Style

  • text overlay

Visible Text

  • 'I'm frowning
  • AT YOU'
  • FRIEDBERG

Wordwall

  • person
  • short brown hair
  • sunglasses
  • blue shirt
  • dark collar
  • green trees
  • sky
  • cyan text
  • black background
  • 'I'm frowning AT YOU'
  • dashes
  • FRIEDBERG
  • pixelated
  • low resolution

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708051749541273169820
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
2.8 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/91/91a40442880b8048de94e48d848483138a062aa1fd22d9cb14233d58d236b686.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC
Archive ID
91a40442880b8048
SHA-256
91a40442880b8048de94e48d848483138a062aa1fd22d9cb14233d58d236b686
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 31, 2026 at 06:07 UTC
Run
15969
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000074

OpenAI category scores

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 9, 2026 at 02:38 UTC
Run
1278
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000534

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.000534falseself-harm0.000465falsesexual0.000016falseviolence/graphic0.000007falseself-harm/intent0.000006falseself-harm/instructions0.000001falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:09 UTC
Run
1133
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.208714

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated image of a person with short brown hair and sunglasses in a blue shirt, next to cyan text on black background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 19:25 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,748 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,115, response 634

Review tags

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  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • confrontational (mood, 0.80)
  • serious (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text overlay (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • black
  • blue
  • brown
  • green
  • white

Composition

  • person on left
  • text on right
  • centered text elements

Dense Caption

Pixelated image shows a person with short brown hair and dark sunglasses wearing a blue shirt with a dark collar. Background includes blurred green trees and sky. Cyan text on black background reads "'I'm frowning AT YOU'" with a line of dashes and "FRIEDBERG" below. Image has low resolution with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with short brown hair and sunglasses in a blue shirt, next to cyan text on black 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

Mood

  • serious
  • confrontational

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person frowning cyan text friedberg
  • pixelated image blue shirt sunglasses
  • frowning at you friedberg text
  • cyan text black background person

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text overlay

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • 'I'm frowning
  • AT YOU'
  • FRIEDBERG

Wordwall

  • person
  • short brown hair
  • sunglasses
  • blue shirt
  • dark collar
  • green trees
  • sky
  • cyan text
  • black background
  • 'I'm frowning AT YOU'
  • dashes
  • FRIEDBERG
  • pixelated
  • low resolution
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 10:30 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
200708051749541273169820
Archive entry
200708051749541273169820.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#200708051749541273169820.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708051749541273169820.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016