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A split-screen image with a pixelated person on the left and yellow text on a purple background on the right.

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A split-screen image with a pixelated person on the left and yellow text on a purple background on the right.

A split-screen image with a pixelated person on the left and yellow text on a purple background on the right. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons S…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split-screen
  • left-right
  • text on right
  • image on left

Dense Caption

Left side shows a pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair, light skin, and a neutral expression. Right side features a solid purple background with yellow pixelated text reading "Fatty is Awesome!". The image has low resolution with visible pixelation. The text uses a retro video game font style. The person's hair is dark and shoulder-length. The background is a single solid color with no additional elements.

Description

  • A split-screen image with a pixelated person on the left and yellow text on a purple background on the right.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • fatty is awesome
  • purple background yellow text
  • pixelated person dark hair
  • retro video game font

Visible Text

  • Fatty is Awesome!

Wordwall

  • pixelated person
  • dark hair
  • light skin
  • neutral expression
  • purple background
  • yellow text
  • Fatty is Awesome!
  • retro video game font
  • low resolution
  • solid background

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070731184045113898488
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/9f/9f0812912fe5baa9615105fe1cef016c78ff6c835201fd243bc49d39ed96ffea.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 UTC
Archive ID
9f0812912fe5baa9
SHA-256
9f0812912fe5baa9615105fe1cef016c78ff6c835201fd243bc49d39ed96ffea
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 13, 2026 at 17:35 UTC
Run
1287
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000570

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:17 UTC
Run
1135
Input
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.155145

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A split-screen image with a pixelated person on the left and yellow text on a purple background on the right.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 17:03 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,086 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,140, response 644

Review tags

  • dark brown (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • purple
  • yellow
  • dark brown
  • light brown
  • red

Composition

  • split-screen
  • left-right
  • text on right
  • image on left

Dense Caption

Left side shows a pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair, light skin, and a neutral expression. Right side features a solid purple background with yellow pixelated text reading "Fatty is Awesome!". The image has low resolution with visible pixelation. The text uses a retro video game font style. The person's hair is dark and shoulder-length. The background is a single solid color with no additional elements.

Description

  • A split-screen image with a pixelated person on the left and yellow text on a purple background on the right.

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

Mood

  • neutral
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • fatty is awesome
  • purple background yellow text
  • pixelated person dark hair
  • retro video game font

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • Fatty is Awesome!

Wordwall

  • pixelated person
  • dark hair
  • light skin
  • neutral expression
  • purple background
  • yellow text
  • Fatty is Awesome!
  • retro video game font
  • low resolution
  • solid background
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 09:59 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)
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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
20070731184045113898488
Archive entry
20070731184045113898488.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 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#20070731184045113898488.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070731184045113898488.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016