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Pixelated image of a person playing electric guitar with orange background and yellow text.

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Pixelated image of a person playing electric guitar with orange background and yellow text.

Pixelated image of a person playing electric guitar with orange background and yellow text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons……

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four text sections on solid orange background
  • figure positioned left of center

Dense Caption

The icon features a pixelated figure wearing a dark top hat, white short-sleeve shirt, and brown pants while holding an orange electric guitar. The background is solid bright orange. Yellow blocky text appears in four sections: 'Slash Is Going 2 Rock On' (top right), 'Guitar Hero III Legends Of' (bottom left), 'Rock Slash Is A Legend !!!!' (bottom right). All text uses a retro video game font style with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person playing electric guitar with orange background and yellow text.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Slash (musician)

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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Named Entities

  • Slash
  • Guitar Hero III

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • slash guitar hero iii legend
  • guitar hero iii slash icon
  • rock on slash guitar hero
  • slash is a legend guitar hero

Visible Text

  • Slash Is Going 2 Rock On
  • Guitar Hero III Legends Of
  • Rock Slash Is A Legend !!!!
  • 2

Visually Supported Entities

  • Slash
  • Guitar Hero III

Wordwall

  • person
  • electric guitar
  • top hat
  • white shirt
  • orange background
  • yellow text
  • retro font
  • Slash
  • Guitar Hero III
  • Legends Of

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709231936302040597388
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:47 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.9 KB
Motion
Animated (4 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 14:47 UTC
Archive ID
d196ebf6aba8bcaf
SHA-256
d196ebf6aba8bcafab075c9b35a0d09bf53539b37813095ad73146a9918f4c92
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:46 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.086490

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Pixelated image of a person playing electric guitar with orange background and yellow text.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 04:28 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,061 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 617

Review tags

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  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • celebratory (mood, 0.80)
  • energetic (mood, 0.80)
  • electric guitar (object, 0.80)
  • orange background (object, 0.80)
  • top hat (object, 0.80)
  • white shirt (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro video game (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • playing guitar

Colors

  • orange
  • yellow
  • brown
  • dark gray
  • white

Composition

  • four text sections on solid orange background
  • figure positioned left of center

Dense Caption

The icon features a pixelated figure wearing a dark top hat, white short-sleeve shirt, and brown pants while holding an orange electric guitar. The background is solid bright orange. Yellow blocky text appears in four sections: 'Slash Is Going 2 Rock On' (top right), 'Guitar Hero III Legends Of' (bottom left), 'Rock Slash Is A Legend !!!!' (bottom right). All text uses a retro video game font style with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person playing electric guitar with orange background and yellow text.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Slash (musician)

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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • energetic
  • celebratory

Named Entities

  • Slash
  • Guitar Hero III

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • slash guitar hero iii legend
  • guitar hero iii slash icon
  • rock on slash guitar hero
  • slash is a legend guitar hero

Objects

  • electric guitar
  • top hat
  • white shirt
  • orange background

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro video game

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • Slash Is Going 2 Rock On
  • Guitar Hero III Legends Of
  • Rock Slash Is A Legend !!!!
  • 2

Visually Supported Entities

  • Slash
  • Guitar Hero III

Wordwall

  • person
  • electric guitar
  • top hat
  • white shirt
  • orange background
  • yellow text
  • retro font
  • Slash
  • Guitar Hero III
  • Legends Of
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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
200709231936302040597388
Archive entry
200709231936302040597388.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:47 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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