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A pixelated image shows a figure in a blue jacket with red text above, a white face with dark eye patches, and a circular emblem with a black-and-white design.

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A pixelated image shows a figure in a blue jacket with red text above, a white face with dark eye patches, and a circular emblem with a black-and-white design.

A pixelated image shows a figure in a blue jacket with red text above, a white face with dark eye patches, and a circular emblem with a black-and-white design. Animated 48×48 GIF…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • six
  • top-left
  • top-middle
  • top-right
  • bottom-left
  • bottom-middle
  • bottom-right

Dense Caption

The image is a grid of six panels. Top-left: a figure in a blue jacket with red text 'WHY ME?' above, blue background. Top-middle: a white face with dark eye patches and red lips, black background. Top-right: a circular emblem with a black-and-white design and white feathers. Bottom-left: a person in a white shirt, black pants, and red cap performing a skateboard trick. Bottom-middle: two black circles and a black rectangle on white background. Bottom-right: solid gray panel. All panels are pixelated.

Description

A pixelated image shows a figure in a blue jacket with red text above, a white face with dark eye patches, and a circular emblem with a black-and-white design.

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.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20081128163818595084884
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue jacket red text WHY ME?
  • white face dark eye patches red lips
  • circular emblem white feathers
  • skateboarder white shirt black pants red cap
  • black circles black rectangle white background
  • gray

Objects

  • face
  • rectangle

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: gray panel
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: six panels
  • quarantined retrieval: gray panel

Subjects

  • figure
  • face

Visible Text

  • WHY ME?

Wordwall

  • blue jacket
  • red text
  • WHY ME?
  • white face
  • dark eye patches
  • red lips
  • circular emblem
  • white feathers
  • skateboard trick
  • black circles
  • black rectangle
  • gray

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081128163818595084884
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
6.6 KB
Motion
Animated (5 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/eb/ebb26ff57640347ca4ceac96fc348bd842c2a0caa6884c95d28a4eed86215308.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 UTC
Archive ID
ebb26ff57640347c
SHA-256
ebb26ff57640347ca4ceac96fc348bd842c2a0caa6884c95d28a4eed86215308
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 11, 2026 at 01:21 UTC
Run
1281
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.116854

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:00 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.180941

OpenAI category scores

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A pixelated image shows a figure in a blue jacket with red text above, a white face with dark eye patches, and a circular emblem with a black-and-white design.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 11:14 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,557 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,161, response 833

Review tags

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  • turning (action, 0.80)
  • wearing (action, 0.80)
  • feathers (object, 0.80)
  • jacket (object, 0.80)
  • skateboard (object, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
  • emblem (subject, 0.80)
  • face (subject, 0.80)
  • figure (subject, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)
  • skateboarder (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • performing trick
  • turning
  • wearing

Colors

  • blue
  • red
  • white
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • six
  • top-left
  • top-middle
  • top-right
  • bottom-left
  • bottom-middle
  • bottom-right

Dense Caption

The image is a grid of six panels. Top-left: a figure in a blue jacket with red text 'WHY ME?' above, blue background. Top-middle: a white face with dark eye patches and red lips, black background. Top-right: a circular emblem with a black-and-white design and white feathers. Bottom-left: a person in a white shirt, black pants, and red cap performing a skateboard trick. Bottom-middle: two black circles and a black rectangle on white background. Bottom-right: solid gray panel. All panels are pixelated.

Description

A pixelated image shows a figure in a blue jacket with red text above, a white face with dark eye patches, and a circular emblem with a black-and-white design.

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.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20081128163818595084884
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • mysterious
  • dynamic
  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue jacket red text WHY ME?
  • white face dark eye patches red lips
  • circular emblem white feathers
  • skateboarder white shirt black pants red cap
  • black circles black rectangle white background
  • gray

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  • jacket
  • text
  • face
  • feathers
  • skateboard
  • circles
  • rectangle
  • emblem

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: six panels
  • quarantined retrieval: gray panel

Style

  • pixelated

Subjects

  • figure
  • face
  • person
  • skateboarder
  • emblem

Visible Text

  • WHY ME?

Wordwall

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  • red text
  • WHY ME?
  • white face
  • dark eye patches
  • red lips
  • circular emblem
  • white feathers
  • skateboard trick
  • black circles
  • black rectangle
  • gray
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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
20081128163818595084884
Archive entry
20081128163818595084884.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 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#20081128163818595084884.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081128163818595084884.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016