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Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and sunglasses on the left, next to orange text reading "BAM IS MAH HERO" on a yellow background.

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Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and sunglasses on the left, next to orange text reading "BAM IS MAH HERO" on a yellow background.

Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and sunglasses on the left, next to orange text reading "BAM IS MAH HERO" on a yellow background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • left figure, right text
  • solid background
  • text positioned top-right and bottom-left/bottom-right

Dense Caption

Left side shows pixelated figure with shoulder-length dark hair, black sunglasses, layered necklaces, and dark jacket over light shirt. Right side has solid bright yellow background. Orange blocky text: top-right reads "BAM", bottom-left reads "IS", bottom-right reads "MAH HERO". All elements are static; no animation observed.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and sunglasses on the left, next to orange text reading "BAM IS MAH HERO" on a yellow 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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person sunglasses yellow background
  • BAM IS MAH HERO text
  • layered necklaces dark jacket
  • orange blocky text bright yellow

Visible Text

  • BAM
  • IS
  • MAH HERO

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • pixelated figure
  • dark hair
  • sunglasses
  • layered necklaces
  • dark jacket
  • light shirt
  • bright yellow background
  • orange blocky text
  • "BAM"
  • "IS"
  • "MAH HERO"

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071208223608525540167
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:03 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/e3/e316189981956fe83cc1626288836576882135a9ccd88d2a74eb81ed801fb4e8.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:03 UTC
Archive ID
e316189981956fe8
SHA-256
e316189981956fe83cc1626288836576882135a9ccd88d2a74eb81ed801fb4e8
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:55 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.098781

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and sunglasses on the left, next to orange text reading "BAM IS MAH HERO" on a yellow background.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 00:32 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,215 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 582

Review tags

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  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
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  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • yellow
  • orange
  • black
  • white
  • light blue

Composition

  • left figure, right text
  • solid background
  • text positioned top-right and bottom-left/bottom-right

Dense Caption

Left side shows pixelated figure with shoulder-length dark hair, black sunglasses, layered necklaces, and dark jacket over light shirt. Right side has solid bright yellow background. Orange blocky text: top-right reads "BAM", bottom-left reads "IS", bottom-right reads "MAH HERO". All elements are static; no animation observed.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and sunglasses on the left, next to orange text reading "BAM IS MAH HERO" on a yellow 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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person sunglasses yellow background
  • BAM IS MAH HERO text
  • layered necklaces dark jacket
  • orange blocky text bright yellow

Objects

  • sunglasses
  • necklaces
  • jacket
  • shirt

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky text

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • BAM
  • IS
  • MAH HERO

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • pixelated figure
  • dark hair
  • sunglasses
  • layered necklaces
  • dark jacket
  • light shirt
  • bright yellow background
  • orange blocky text
  • "BAM"
  • "IS"
  • "MAH HERO"
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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
20071208223608525540167
Archive entry
20071208223608525540167.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:03 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#20071208223608525540167.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071208223608525540167.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016