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A split-screen image with a pixelated face on the left and red background text on the right reading 'puppy needs a band-aid.'

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A split-screen image with a pixelated face on the left and red background text on the right reading 'puppy needs a band-aid.'

A split-screen image with a pixelated face on the left and red background text on the right reading 'puppy needs a band-aid.'. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Arch…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split-screen
  • left-right division
  • text on right side

Dense Caption

Left side shows a low-resolution, pixelated close-up of a person's face with dark hair against a muted greenish-brown background. Right side features solid bright red background with black pixelated text in three lines: 'puppy', 'needs', 'a band-aid.'. Text uses blocky, retro digital font style. Image has visible compression artifacts and low color depth typical of early 2000s web graphics.

Description

  • A split-screen image with a pixelated face on the left and red background text on the right reading 'puppy needs a band-aid.'

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • puppy needs a band-aid
  • pixelated face red background
  • band-aid text icon
  • retro digital font

Visible Text

  • puppy needs a band-aid.

Visually Supported Entities

  • person's face

Wordwall

  • pixelated face
  • dark hair
  • muted greenish-brown background
  • solid bright red background
  • black pixelated text
  • blocky digital font
  • compression artifacts
  • low color depth

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080407232823626958652
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:22 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/be/bec0dc2adc0f4e09fdd7f3784ba220e393b401f2baf9d069492c7a7bb5d509ac.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:22 UTC
Archive ID
bec0dc2adc0f4e09
SHA-256
bec0dc2adc0f4e09fdd7f3784ba220e393b401f2baf9d069492c7a7bb5d509ac
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:36 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.119335

OpenAI category scores

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A split-screen image with a pixelated face on the left and red background text on the right reading 'puppy needs a band-aid.'

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 01:10 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,392 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,141, response 588

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • greenish brown (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • urgent (mood, 0.80)
  • band aid (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • person s face (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • black
  • greenish-brown
  • gray

Composition

  • split-screen
  • left-right division
  • text on right side

Dense Caption

Left side shows a low-resolution, pixelated close-up of a person's face with dark hair against a muted greenish-brown background. Right side features solid bright red background with black pixelated text in three lines: 'puppy', 'needs', 'a band-aid.'. Text uses blocky, retro digital font style. Image has visible compression artifacts and low color depth typical of early 2000s web graphics.

Description

  • A split-screen image with a pixelated face on the left and red background text on the right reading 'puppy needs a band-aid.'

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

Mood

  • urgent
  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • puppy needs a band-aid
  • pixelated face red background
  • band-aid text icon
  • retro digital font

Objects

  • band-aid

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person's face

Visible Text

  • puppy needs a band-aid.

Visually Supported Entities

  • person's face

Wordwall

  • pixelated face
  • dark hair
  • muted greenish-brown background
  • solid bright red background
  • black pixelated text
  • blocky digital font
  • compression artifacts
  • low color depth
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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
20080407232823626958652
Archive entry
20080407232823626958652.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:22 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#20080407232823626958652.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080407232823626958652.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016