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Pixelated image of a person with a hand gesture next to red text on a black background.

Pixelated image of a person with a hand gesture next to red text on a black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, La…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text on black background
  • person on left
  • text blocks on right and bottom

Dense Caption

Pixelated image of a person with a shaved head and dark sleeveless shirt, hand positioned near chin in a gesture. Red text on black background: 'omg i eminem he iz sooo HOTTTTT' in top-right, 'HE IZ MY BOY FRIEND' in bottom-left, 'BACK OFF he IZ mine' in bottom-right. Text uses blocky, pixelated font. Image has low-resolution, retro digital appearance.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with a hand gesture next to red text on a black 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 topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • Eminem

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • eminem hand gesture
  • he iz my boy friend
  • back off he iz mine
  • omg i eminem he iz sooo hot
  • pixelated eminem text
  • red text black background
  • hand near chin eminem
  • he iz sooo hottttt

Visible Text

  • omg i eminem he iz sooo HOTTTTT
  • HE IZ MY BOY FRIEND
  • BACK OFF he IZ mine

Wordwall

  • person with shaved head
  • dark sleeveless shirt
  • hand near chin
  • red text
  • black background
  • pixelated font
  • omg i eminem
  • he iz sooo HOTTTTT
  • HE IZ MY BOY FRIEND
  • BACK OFF he IZ mine

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081110183911139703039
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 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/c3/c3c6446bd9244a767c721a44f9a9522bcd70708b70f46eebd64bb8685bb2152d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 UTC
Archive ID
c3c6446bd9244a76
SHA-256
c3c6446bd9244a767c721a44f9a9522bcd70708b70f46eebd64bb8685bb2152d
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:38 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.111936

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image of a person with a hand gesture next to red text on a black background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 08:13 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,135 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 678

Review tags

  • hand near chin (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • hand near chin

Colors

  • red
  • black
  • brown

Composition

  • text on black background
  • person on left
  • text blocks on right and bottom

Dense Caption

Pixelated image of a person with a shaved head and dark sleeveless shirt, hand positioned near chin in a gesture. Red text on black background: 'omg i eminem he iz sooo HOTTTTT' in top-right, 'HE IZ MY BOY FRIEND' in bottom-left, 'BACK OFF he IZ mine' in bottom-right. Text uses blocky, pixelated font. Image has low-resolution, retro digital appearance.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with a hand gesture next to red text on a black 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 topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • Eminem

Mood

  • playful
  • affectionate

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • eminem hand gesture
  • he iz my boy friend
  • back off he iz mine
  • omg i eminem he iz sooo hot
  • pixelated eminem text
  • red text black background
  • hand near chin eminem
  • he iz sooo hottttt

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • omg i eminem he iz sooo HOTTTTT
  • HE IZ MY BOY FRIEND
  • BACK OFF he IZ mine

Wordwall

  • person with shaved head
  • dark sleeveless shirt
  • hand near chin
  • red text
  • black background
  • pixelated font
  • omg i eminem
  • he iz sooo HOTTTTT
  • HE IZ MY BOY FRIEND
  • BACK OFF he IZ mine
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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
20081110183911139703039
Archive entry
20081110183911139703039.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 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#20081110183911139703039.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081110183911139703039.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016