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Black-and-white pixelated image with text overlays and abstract shapes, divided into four quadrants with varying content.

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Black-and-white pixelated image with text overlays and abstract shapes, divided into four quadrants with varying content.

Black-and-white pixelated image with text overlays and abstract shapes, divided into four quadrants with varying content. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive F…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static

Animation Summary

  • Static image with no visible motion changes.

Composition

  • four-quadrant layout

Dense Caption

The image is a black-and-white pixelated composition divided into four quadrants. Top-left quadrant contains the text "we can play a mean" over abstract black-and-white striped shapes. Top-right quadrant shows the text "cover of dammit" with a black silhouette of a person holding a guitar. Bottom-left quadrant displays the text "lol, colin -love you guys" over a pixelated figure with multiple arms. Bottom-right quadrant is a solid light gray color. All text is in a pixelated font with black outlines. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance.

Description

  • Black-and-white pixelated image with text overlays and abstract shapes, divided into four quadrants with varying content.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 2009021220202246753587

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • buddy icon text
  • pixelated guitar silhouette
  • multiple-armed figure text
  • four quadrant gray image
  • humorous pixel art
  • black and white text art
  • retro digital text
  • playful pixelated message

Objects

  • guitar

Preprocessing Notes

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata not confirmed by image pixels

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

Visible Text

  • we can
  • play
  • a mean
  • cover of
  • dammit
  • lol, colin
  • -love you
  • guys

Wordwall

  • black-and-white pixelated
  • text overlays
  • abstract striped shapes
  • silhouette holding guitar
  • multiple-armed figure
  • solid light gray quadrant
  • pixelated font
  • four-quadrant layout

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2009021220202246753587
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
4.6 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a2/a27cb7a498d35f38b92a7e82bb4514a9ef96eac04cf3373b4cf956ef04b581f3.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 UTC
Archive ID
a27cb7a498d35f38
SHA-256
a27cb7a498d35f38b92a7e82bb4514a9ef96eac04cf3373b4cf956ef04b581f3
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:19 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.091488

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.933152onnx/unsafe0.091488onnx/nsfw0.058710onnx/nsfl0.032778
Enrichment records (1)
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Black-and-white pixelated image with text overlays and abstract shapes, divided into four quadrants with varying content.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 22:42 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,571 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 886

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • playing (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • guitar (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • multiple armed figure (subject, 0.80)
  • silhouette (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding
  • playing

Animation

  • static

Animation Summary

  • Static image with no visible motion changes.

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • four-quadrant layout

Dense Caption

The image is a black-and-white pixelated composition divided into four quadrants. Top-left quadrant contains the text "we can play a mean" over abstract black-and-white striped shapes. Top-right quadrant shows the text "cover of dammit" with a black silhouette of a person holding a guitar. Bottom-left quadrant displays the text "lol, colin -love you guys" over a pixelated figure with multiple arms. Bottom-right quadrant is a solid light gray color. All text is in a pixelated font with black outlines. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance.

Description

  • Black-and-white pixelated image with text overlays and abstract shapes, divided into four quadrants with varying content.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 2009021220202246753587

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • playful
  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • buddy icon text
  • pixelated guitar silhouette
  • multiple-armed figure text
  • four quadrant gray image
  • humorous pixel art
  • black and white text art
  • retro digital text
  • playful pixelated message

Objects

  • guitar

Preprocessing Notes

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata not confirmed by image pixels

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
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  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • silhouette
  • multiple-armed figure

Visible Text

  • we can
  • play
  • a mean
  • cover of
  • dammit
  • lol, colin
  • -love you
  • guys

Wordwall

  • black-and-white pixelated
  • text overlays
  • abstract striped shapes
  • silhouette holding guitar
  • multiple-armed figure
  • solid light gray quadrant
  • pixelated font
  • four-quadrant layout
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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
2009021220202246753587
Archive entry
2009021220202246753587.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 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#2009021220202246753587.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2009021220202246753587.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016