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Pixelated character with orange hair in a red-collared white jacket stands against brown background, blue text reads 'Gay Bar Y/N?' on black side.

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Pixelated character with orange hair in a red-collared white jacket stands against brown background, blue text reads 'Gay Bar Y/N?' on black side.

Pixelated character with orange hair in a red-collared white jacket stands against brown background, blue text reads 'Gay Bar Y/N?' on black side. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy ico…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split screen
  • left character right text
  • centered figure on left half

Dense Caption

Left half shows pixelated figure with light brown spiky hair and closed eyes wearing cream-colored jacket over dark shirt with red collar. Right half has solid black background with bright cyan block letters spelling 'Gay Bar' above 'Y/N?'. Text is rendered in 8-bit style font. Image uses low-resolution pixel art technique with visible dithering on character's face and clothing. Character faces right, positioned against brown textured backdrop.

Description

Pixelated character with orange hair in a red-collared white jacket stands against brown background, blue text reads 'Gay Bar Y/N?' on black side.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • gay bar y n pixel art character
  • 8-bit text orange hair red collar
  • cyan text black background character
  • pixelated figure gay bar question

Visible Text

  • Gay Bar Y/N?

Wordwall

  • orange hair
  • red collar
  • cream jacket
  • closed eyes
  • black background
  • cyan text
  • Y/N?
  • 8-bit font
  • pixelated figure
  • brown backdrop

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200711051604541017555699
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:53 UTC

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Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:53 UTC
Archive ID
b4257ac5439a86c1
SHA-256
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:29 UTC
Run
1136
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image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
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Pixelated character with orange hair in a red-collared white jacket stands against brown background, blue text reads 'Gay Bar Y/N?' on black side.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 15:30 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,485 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,148, response 562

Review tags

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  • cream (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
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Colors

  • orange
  • red
  • cream
  • black
  • cyan
  • brown

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  • split screen
  • left character right text
  • centered figure on left half

Dense Caption

Left half shows pixelated figure with light brown spiky hair and closed eyes wearing cream-colored jacket over dark shirt with red collar. Right half has solid black background with bright cyan block letters spelling 'Gay Bar' above 'Y/N?'. Text is rendered in 8-bit style font. Image uses low-resolution pixel art technique with visible dithering on character's face and clothing. Character faces right, positioned against brown textured backdrop.

Description

Pixelated character with orange hair in a red-collared white jacket stands against brown background, blue text reads 'Gay Bar Y/N?' on black side.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • gay bar y n pixel art character
  • 8-bit text orange hair red collar
  • cyan text black background character
  • pixelated figure gay bar question

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit

Subjects

  • character

Visible Text

  • Gay Bar Y/N?

Wordwall

  • orange hair
  • red collar
  • cream jacket
  • closed eyes
  • black background
  • cyan text
  • Y/N?
  • 8-bit font
  • pixelated figure
  • brown backdrop
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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
200711051604541017555699
Archive entry
200711051604541017555699.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:53 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

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