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A pixelated dog face with a blue nose and brown eyes appears on the left, while a red background with three yellow "Brien" texts is on the right.

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A pixelated dog face with a blue nose and brown eyes appears on the left, while a red background with three yellow "Brien" texts is on the right.

A pixelated dog face with a blue nose and brown eyes appears on the left, while a red background with three yellow "Brien" texts is on the right. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • left dog face
  • right text block

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated dog face on the left side with light brown fur, dark brown eyes, and a blue nose. The dog's ears are floppy and brown. The background behind the dog is green. On the right side, there is a solid red background with three lines of yellow text reading "Brien" in a pixelated font. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance.

Description

A pixelated dog face with a blue nose and brown eyes appears on the left, while a red background with three yellow "Brien" texts is on the right.

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: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • dog blue nose
  • Brien text
  • pixelated dog
  • yellow text red background

Subjects

  • dog

Visible Text

  • Brien

Wordwall

  • pixelated dog
  • blue nose
  • brown eyes
  • floppy ears
  • green background
  • red background
  • yellow text
  • Brien
  • three lines
  • retro digital

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200912302023191210818241
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Animated (2 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 16:04 UTC
Archive ID
ed4d91082b5ef2e1
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:00 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.094737

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A pixelated dog face with a blue nose and brown eyes appears on the left, while a red background with three yellow "Brien" texts is on the right.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 15:52 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
3,870 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,144, response 639

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • dog (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • green
  • red
  • yellow
  • brown
  • blue
  • light brown

Composition

  • left dog face
  • right text block

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated dog face on the left side with light brown fur, dark brown eyes, and a blue nose. The dog's ears are floppy and brown. The background behind the dog is green. On the right side, there is a solid red background with three lines of yellow text reading "Brien" in a pixelated font. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance.

Description

A pixelated dog face with a blue nose and brown eyes appears on the left, while a red background with three yellow "Brien" texts is on the right.

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: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • dog blue nose
  • Brien text
  • pixelated dog
  • yellow text red background

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • dog

Visible Text

  • Brien

Wordwall

  • pixelated dog
  • blue nose
  • brown eyes
  • floppy ears
  • green background
  • red background
  • yellow text
  • Brien
  • three lines
  • retro digital
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 21:50 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
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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
200912302023191210818241
Archive entry
200912302023191210818241.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 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#200912302023191210818241.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200912302023191210818241.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016