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A pixelated image of a person in a blue shirt on the left, next to a red background with repeated black text "YO!!!" on the right.

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A pixelated image of a person in a blue shirt on the left, next to a red background with repeated black text "YO!!!" on the right.

A pixelated image of a person in a blue shirt on the left, next to a red background with repeated black text "YO!!!" on the right. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split composition
  • left person
  • right text

Dense Caption

Left side shows a pixelated person with gray hair wearing a blue shirt, mouth open in a shout or yell, against a blurred background with light and dark tones. Right side features a solid red background with vertical black text "YO!!!" repeated five times, each instance having three exclamation marks. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation across all elements. The person's expression appears animated and energetic. The text is bold, blocky, and vertically aligned on the right edge.

Description

  • A pixelated image of a person in a blue shirt on the left, next to a red background with repeated black text "YO!!!" 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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person shouting blue shirt
  • YO!!! red background
  • pixelated text image
  • split composition red blue
  • exclamation mark text
  • gray hair shouting
  • blocky text red background
  • shouting person blue shirt

Visible Text

  • YO!!!

Wordwall

  • gray hair
  • blue shirt
  • mouth open
  • red background
  • black text
  • YO!!!
  • pixelated
  • vertical text
  • exclamation marks
  • blurred background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
201004121749472083263322
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:06 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

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/cb/cb8b3ed404d4aac84aecfbb444e7e608913d3624eea5c851b55c96de9e5119c9.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:06 UTC
Archive ID
cb8b3ed404d4aac8
SHA-256
cb8b3ed404d4aac84aecfbb444e7e608913d3624eea5c851b55c96de9e5119c9
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:42 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.113407

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A pixelated image of a person in a blue shirt on the left, next to a red background with repeated black text "YO!!!" on the right.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 18:29 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,746 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,142, response 713

Review tags

  • shouting (action, 0.80)
  • yelling (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • energetic (mood, 0.80)
  • exuberant (mood, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • shouting
  • yelling

Colors

  • red
  • blue
  • gray
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • split composition
  • left person
  • right text

Dense Caption

Left side shows a pixelated person with gray hair wearing a blue shirt, mouth open in a shout or yell, against a blurred background with light and dark tones. Right side features a solid red background with vertical black text "YO!!!" repeated five times, each instance having three exclamation marks. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation across all elements. The person's expression appears animated and energetic. The text is bold, blocky, and vertically aligned on the right edge.

Description

  • A pixelated image of a person in a blue shirt on the left, next to a red background with repeated black text "YO!!!" 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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Mood

  • energetic
  • exuberant

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person shouting blue shirt
  • YO!!! red background
  • pixelated text image
  • split composition red blue
  • exclamation mark text
  • gray hair shouting
  • blocky text red background
  • shouting person blue shirt

Objects

  • text

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky text

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • YO!!!

Wordwall

  • gray hair
  • blue shirt
  • mouth open
  • red background
  • black text
  • YO!!!
  • pixelated
  • vertical text
  • exclamation marks
  • blurred background
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 22:32 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
Raw JSON
Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
201004121749472083263322
Archive entry
201004121749472083263322.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:06 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#201004121749472083263322.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#201004121749472083263322.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016