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Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and sunglasses holding a microphone, next to a of pink 'MJ' text on black background

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Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and sunglasses holding a microphone, next to a of pink 'MJ' text on black background

Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and sunglasses holding a microphone, next to a of pink 'MJ' text on black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Ar…

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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 dark brown hair, dark sunglasses, and red lips holding a silver microphone with blue accents. Right side displays a 6x4 grid of pink 'MJ' text on black background. The person wears a white collared shirt under a dark jacket. The image has low-resolution pixelation typical of early 2000s digital art. The 'MJ' text is rendered in a blocky, pixelated font. The background behind the person is light-colored and blurred.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and sunglasses holding a microphone, next to a of pink 'MJ' text on black background

Identity Hypotheses

  • Michael Jackson

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • anime
  • games
  • holidays
  • humor

Metadata Supported By Image

  • celebrities

Named Entities

  • Michael Jackson

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person holding microphone
  • MJ text
  • pixelated celebrity icon
  • Michael Jackson icon
  • sunglasses microphone
  • pink MJ text
  • white shirt dark jacket
  • low-resolution pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • low-resolution pixelation
  • possible upscaling
  • quarantined description: Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and sunglasses holding a microphone, next to a grid of pink 'MJ' text on black background.
  • quarantined wordwall: 6x4 grid
  • quarantined subjects: text grid
  • quarantined composition: right text grid
  • quarantined retrieval: MJ text grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200711281738132068780535
  • 2007
  • 2016
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • anime
  • buddy-icons
  • celebrities
  • games
  • historical-archive
  • holidays
  • humor

Visible Text

  • MJ

Visually Supported Entities

  • Michael Jackson

Wordwall

  • person with dark hair
  • dark sunglasses
  • red lips
  • silver microphone
  • white collared shirt
  • dark jacket
  • pink 'MJ' text
  • black background
  • pixelated rendering

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200711281738132068780535
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:01 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/d0/d061b9d93d2df312cbb63f4b9515834af06e7e6f9549283208aacc59c65775cf.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:01 UTC
Archive ID
d061b9d93d2df312
SHA-256
d061b9d93d2df312cbb63f4b9515834af06e7e6f9549283208aacc59c65775cf
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 26, 2026 at 12:17 UTC
Run
1349
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000593

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagharassment0.000593falseviolence0.000484falsesexual0.000029falsehate0.000018falseself-harm0.000011falseviolence/graphic0.000010falseillicit0.000007falseharassment/threatening0.000005falseself-harm/intent0.000002falsesexual/minors0.000001falseillicit/violent0.000001falseself-harm/instructions0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000false
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 24, 2026 at 05:23 UTC
Run
1171
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.022744

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.022744falseself-harm0.004738falseself-harm/intent0.000229falseviolence/graphic0.000073falsesexual0.000057falseself-harm/instructions0.000004falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:45 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.863652

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/unsafe0.863652onnx/sfw0.862485onnx/nsfw0.818954onnx/nsfl0.044698
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and sunglasses holding a microphone, next to a of pink 'MJ' text on black background

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 12:11 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,245 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,146, response 716

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • dark brown (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • silver (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • microphone (subject, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding

Colors

  • dark brown
  • black
  • red
  • silver
  • blue
  • white
  • pink
  • light beige

Composition

  • split composition
  • left person
  • right text

Dense Caption

Left side shows a pixelated person with dark brown hair, dark sunglasses, and red lips holding a silver microphone with blue accents. Right side displays a 6x4 grid of pink 'MJ' text on black background. The person wears a white collared shirt under a dark jacket. The image has low-resolution pixelation typical of early 2000s digital art. The 'MJ' text is rendered in a blocky, pixelated font. The background behind the person is light-colored and blurred.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and sunglasses holding a microphone, next to a of pink 'MJ' text on black background

Identity Hypotheses

  • Michael Jackson

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • anime
  • games
  • holidays
  • humor

Metadata Supported By Image

  • celebrities

Mood

  • neutral

Named Entities

  • Michael Jackson

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person holding microphone
  • MJ text
  • pixelated celebrity icon
  • Michael Jackson icon
  • sunglasses microphone
  • pink MJ text
  • white shirt dark jacket
  • low-resolution pixel art

Objects

  • microphone

Preprocessing Notes

  • low-resolution pixelation
  • possible upscaling
  • quarantined description: Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and sunglasses holding a microphone, next to a grid of pink 'MJ' text on black background.
  • quarantined wordwall: 6x4 grid
  • quarantined subjects: text grid
  • quarantined composition: right text grid
  • quarantined retrieval: MJ text grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200711281738132068780535
  • 2007
  • 2016
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • anime
  • buddy-icons
  • celebrities
  • games
  • historical-archive
  • holidays
  • humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person
  • microphone
  • text

Visible Text

  • MJ

Visually Supported Entities

  • Michael Jackson

Wordwall

  • person with dark hair
  • dark sunglasses
  • red lips
  • silver microphone
  • white collared shirt
  • dark jacket
  • pink 'MJ' text
  • black background
  • pixelated rendering
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 21:42 UTC
Run
53
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
200711281738132068780535
Archive entry
200711281738132068780535.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:01 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#200711281738132068780535.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200711281738132068780535.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016