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A pixelated image of a person wearing sunglasses and a dark hat, with a partial view of a magazine cover showing text and a person in a hoodie.

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A pixelated image of a person wearing sunglasses and a dark hat, with a partial view of a magazine cover showing text and a person in a hoodie.

A pixelated image of a person wearing sunglasses and a dark hat, with a partial view of a magazine cover showing text and a person in a hoodie. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon f…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • composite
  • three distinct sections

Dense Caption

The image is a pixelated composite. Top-left: a person with dark skin, wearing black sunglasses and a dark hat, smiling with visible teeth. Top-right: a magazine cover with red and white text, showing a person in a dark hoodie with light-colored text on the chest. Bottom-left: a person with dark hair, shirtless, wearing blue shorts, standing in front of a patterned background. The image has low resolution and pixelation throughout.

Description

A pixelated image of a person wearing sunglasses and a dark hat, with a partial view of a magazine cover showing text and a person in a hoodie.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • celebrities

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • sunglasses person magazine cover
  • hoodie text shirtless shorts
  • pixelated composite three sections
  • red white text magazine cover

Visible Text

  • I AM
  • TOP
  • MEN
  • HOT

Wordwall

  • sunglasses
  • dark hat
  • smiling
  • magazine cover
  • red and white text
  • dark hoodie
  • light text on chest
  • shirtless
  • blue shorts
  • patterned background
  • low resolution
  • pixelated

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200905271111451320339948
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:58 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
6.1 KB
Motion
Animated (3 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 15:58 UTC
Archive ID
eb29ea6f598393b0
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (3)
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Assessed
August 19, 2026 at 21:27 UTC
Run
1315
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000795

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
August 13, 2026 at 18:53 UTC
Run
1287
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 21, 2026 at 04:57 UTC
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Overall label
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A pixelated image of a person wearing sunglasses and a dark hat, with a partial view of a magazine cover showing text and a person in a hoodie.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 10:47 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,322 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 657

Review tags

  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • standing (action, 0.80)
  • casual (mood, 0.80)
  • confident (mood, 0.80)
  • hat (object, 0.80)
  • hoodie (object, 0.80)
  • magazine cover (object, 0.80)
  • shorts (object, 0.80)
  • sunglasses (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling
  • standing

Colors

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

Composition

  • composite
  • three distinct sections

Dense Caption

The image is a pixelated composite. Top-left: a person with dark skin, wearing black sunglasses and a dark hat, smiling with visible teeth. Top-right: a magazine cover with red and white text, showing a person in a dark hoodie with light-colored text on the chest. Bottom-left: a person with dark hair, shirtless, wearing blue shorts, standing in front of a patterned background. The image has low resolution and pixelation throughout.

Description

A pixelated image of a person wearing sunglasses and a dark hat, with a partial view of a magazine cover showing text and a person in a hoodie.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • celebrities

Mood

  • casual
  • confident

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • sunglasses person magazine cover
  • hoodie text shirtless shorts
  • pixelated composite three sections
  • red white text magazine cover

Objects

  • sunglasses
  • hat
  • magazine cover
  • hoodie
  • shorts

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • I AM
  • TOP
  • MEN
  • HOT

Wordwall

  • sunglasses
  • dark hat
  • smiling
  • magazine cover
  • red and white text
  • dark hoodie
  • light text on chest
  • shirtless
  • blue shorts
  • patterned background
  • low resolution
  • pixelated
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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
200905271111451320339948
Archive entry
200905271111451320339948.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:58 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#200905271111451320339948.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200905271111451320339948.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016