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Pixelated image of a person in a blue jacket with dark hair and sunglasses, red text 'IM' above and 'A Jackass' below on white background.

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Pixelated image of a person in a blue jacket with dark hair and sunglasses, red text 'IM' above and 'A Jackass' below on white background.

Pixelated image of a person in a blue jacket with dark hair and sunglasses, red text 'IM' above and 'A Jackass' below on white background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from I…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • upper right text
  • lower left text
  • lower right text
  • blurred background

Dense Caption

Pixelated image of a person with dark hair wearing dark sunglasses and a blue jacket with white accents. The person's mouth is open in a slight pout. Red pixelated text 'IM' appears in the upper right corner. Red pixelated text 'A' appears in the lower left corner. Red pixelated text 'Jackass' appears in the lower right corner. Background is white with blurred red and blue tones on the left side. Image has low-resolution pixelation typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person in a blue jacket with dark hair and sunglasses, red text 'IM' above and 'A Jackass' below on white 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200809071357521282568323

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person sunglasses blue jacket
  • red text IM A Jackass
  • pixelated image white background
  • open mouth sunglasses blue jacket

Visible Text

  • IM
  • A
  • Jackass

Wordwall

  • person
  • dark hair
  • sunglasses
  • blue jacket
  • white accents
  • open mouth
  • red text
  • IM
  • A
  • Jackass
  • white background
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blurred background
  • upper right text
  • lower left text
  • lower right text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200809071357521282568323
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 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 15:38 UTC
Archive ID
eaf09204f9807600
SHA-256
eaf09204f9807600f30e081924d7f77f18b95ef539590e9ad219be585ae94727
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:59 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.099088

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image of a person in a blue jacket with dark hair and sunglasses, red text 'IM' above and 'A Jackass' below on white background.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 23:19 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
11,577 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 731

Review tags

  • open mouth (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • jacket (object, 0.80)
  • sunglasses (object, 0.80)
  • digital graphics (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • open mouth

Colors

  • red
  • blue
  • white
  • black
  • gray
  • brown

Composition

  • upper right text
  • lower left text
  • lower right text
  • blurred background

Dense Caption

Pixelated image of a person with dark hair wearing dark sunglasses and a blue jacket with white accents. The person's mouth is open in a slight pout. Red pixelated text 'IM' appears in the upper right corner. Red pixelated text 'A' appears in the lower left corner. Red pixelated text 'Jackass' appears in the lower right corner. Background is white with blurred red and blue tones on the left side. Image has low-resolution pixelation typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person in a blue jacket with dark hair and sunglasses, red text 'IM' above and 'A Jackass' below on white 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200809071357521282568323

Mood

  • playful
  • humorous

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  • red text IM A Jackass
  • pixelated image white background
  • open mouth sunglasses blue jacket

Objects

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  • jacket

Style

  • pixelated
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Visible Text

  • IM
  • A
  • Jackass

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  • sunglasses
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  • white accents
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  • IM
  • A
  • Jackass
  • white background
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blurred background
  • upper right text
  • lower left text
  • lower right text
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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
200809071357521282568323
Archive entry
200809071357521282568323.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 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#200809071357521282568323.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200809071357521282568323.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016