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Pixelated image of a person wearing a cowboy hat and tank top with green text on blue background.

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Pixelated image of a person wearing a cowboy hat and tank top with green text on blue background.

Pixelated image of a person wearing a cowboy hat and tank top with green text on blue background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • upper-left quadrant image on solid background
  • text distributed across three regions

Dense Caption

The icon features a pixelated image of a person in the upper-left quadrant, wearing a light-colored cowboy hat, a gray sleeveless tank top, and a white beaded necklace. The background behind the figure is light gray. The rest of the icon has a solid bright blue background with green pixelated text: 'so what' at the top-right, 'hes bald' in the lower-left, and 'but he rocks!' in the middle-right. All text uses a blocky, retro digital font.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person wearing a cowboy hat and tank top with green text on 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: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200811131608561771397859
  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016

Named Entities

  • person wearing cowboy hat
  • person in gray tank top
  • person with white beaded necklace

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cowboy hat person gray tank top green text blue background
  • so what hes bald but he rocks!
  • pixelated image blue background green text
  • person wearing cowboy hat and tank top

Visible Text

  • so what
  • hes bald
  • but he rocks!

Visually Supported Entities

  • person wearing cowboy hat
  • person in gray tank top
  • person with white beaded necklace

Wordwall

  • cowboy hat
  • gray tank top
  • white beaded necklace
  • bright blue background
  • green pixelated text
  • so what
  • hes bald
  • but he rocks!
  • pixelated image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200811131608561771397859
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/96/96f3da019db09fdacff14dfe15afcb502fed136eb80e9e85fe99592880e3011d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC
Archive ID
96f3da019db09fda
SHA-256
96f3da019db09fdacff14dfe15afcb502fed136eb80e9e85fe99592880e3011d
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:12 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.106088

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image of a person wearing a cowboy hat and tank top with green text on blue background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 08:38 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,352 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 739

Review tags

  • bright blue (color, 0.80)
  • confident (mood, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • cowboy hat (object, 0.80)
  • gray tank top (object, 0.80)
  • white beaded necklace (object, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • person in gray tank top (subject, 0.80)
  • person wearing cowboy hat (subject, 0.80)
  • person with white beaded necklace (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • bright blue
  • green
  • light gray
  • beige
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • upper-left quadrant image on solid background
  • text distributed across three regions

Dense Caption

The icon features a pixelated image of a person in the upper-left quadrant, wearing a light-colored cowboy hat, a gray sleeveless tank top, and a white beaded necklace. The background behind the figure is light gray. The rest of the icon has a solid bright blue background with green pixelated text: 'so what' at the top-right, 'hes bald' in the lower-left, and 'but he rocks!' in the middle-right. All text uses a blocky, retro digital font.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person wearing a cowboy hat and tank top with green text on 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: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200811131608561771397859
  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016

Mood

  • humorous
  • confident

Named Entities

  • person wearing cowboy hat
  • person in gray tank top
  • person with white beaded necklace

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cowboy hat person gray tank top green text blue background
  • so what hes bald but he rocks!
  • pixelated image blue background green text
  • person wearing cowboy hat and tank top

Objects

  • cowboy hat
  • gray tank top
  • white beaded necklace

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • blocky text

Subjects

  • person wearing cowboy hat
  • person in gray tank top
  • person with white beaded necklace

Visible Text

  • so what
  • hes bald
  • but he rocks!

Visually Supported Entities

  • person wearing cowboy hat
  • person in gray tank top
  • person with white beaded necklace

Wordwall

  • cowboy hat
  • gray tank top
  • white beaded necklace
  • bright blue background
  • green pixelated text
  • so what
  • hes bald
  • but he rocks!
  • pixelated image
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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
200811131608561771397859
Archive entry
200811131608561771397859.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 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#200811131608561771397859.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200811131608561771397859.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016