Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and sunglasses on the left, next to red background with black text reading 'I Thought Michael Jackson Was BLACK?!'

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Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and sunglasses on the left, next to red background with black text reading 'I Thought Michael Jackson Was BLACK?!'

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Composition

  • split composition: left image, right text

Dense Caption

Left side shows pixelated close-up of person with shoulder-length brown hair wearing dark sunglasses and white collared shirt. Right side has solid bright red background with bold black sans-serif text: top line reads 'I', middle line 'Thought', bottom left 'Michael Jackson', bottom right 'Was BLACK?!'. Text uses blocky, low-resolution font typical of early 2000s digital graphics. Image is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and sunglasses on the left, next to red background with black text reading 'I Thought Michael Jackson Was BLACK?!'

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Named Entities

  • Michael Jackson

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • michael jackson black
  • i thought michael jackson was black
  • pixelated celebrity image red background
  • black text on red michael jackson

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be cropped from larger source with visible background blur on left edge

Source Metadata Interpretation

untrustedSourceHintsJson contains multiple era and collection claims but image itself shows no evidence of animation or historical context beyond visual elements.

Visible Text

  • I
  • Thought
  • Michael
  • Jackson
  • Was
  • BLACK?!

Visually Supported Entities

  • Michael Jackson

Wordwall

  • pixelated person
  • brown hair
  • dark sunglasses
  • white collared shirt
  • solid red background
  • black text
  • I Thought
  • Michael Jackson
  • Was BLACK?!

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080319183255930913860
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:19 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.7 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/e7/e7d96cc9cbc00bdcd48d0ec4f791ecb15c63652f140df6b945daa532ce99c68d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:19 UTC
Archive ID
e7d96cc9cbc00bdc
SHA-256
e7d96cc9cbc00bdcd48d0ec4f791ecb15c63652f140df6b945daa532ce99c68d
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:58 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.162132

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and sunglasses on the left, next to red background with black text reading 'I Thought Michael Jackson Was BLACK?!'

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 08:27 UTC
Run
57
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,032 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,106, response 578

Review tags

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  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • provocative (mood, 0.80)
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  • person with brown hair (subject, 0.80)
  • sunglasses (subject, 0.80)
  • white collared shirt (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • black
  • brown
  • white

Composition

  • split composition: left image, right text

Dense Caption

Left side shows pixelated close-up of person with shoulder-length brown hair wearing dark sunglasses and white collared shirt. Right side has solid bright red background with bold black sans-serif text: top line reads 'I', middle line 'Thought', bottom left 'Michael Jackson', bottom right 'Was BLACK?!'. Text uses blocky, low-resolution font typical of early 2000s digital graphics. Image is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and sunglasses on the left, next to red background with black text reading 'I Thought Michael Jackson Was BLACK?!'

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Mood

  • provocative
  • humorous

Named Entities

  • Michael Jackson

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • michael jackson black
  • i thought michael jackson was black
  • pixelated celebrity image red background
  • black text on red michael jackson

Objects

  • text blocks

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be cropped from larger source with visible background blur on left edge

Source Metadata Interpretation

untrustedSourceHintsJson contains multiple era and collection claims but image itself shows no evidence of animation or historical context beyond visual elements.

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
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Subjects

  • person with brown hair
  • sunglasses
  • white collared shirt

Visible Text

  • I
  • Thought
  • Michael
  • Jackson
  • Was
  • BLACK?!

Visually Supported Entities

  • Michael Jackson

Wordwall

  • pixelated person
  • brown hair
  • dark sunglasses
  • white collared shirt
  • solid red background
  • black text
  • I Thought
  • Michael Jackson
  • Was BLACK?!
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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
20080319183255930913860
Archive entry
20080319183255930913860.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:19 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