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Black-and-white image of a person with curly hair, red text overlay reading 'Johnny', and a gray rectangular area on the right side.

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Black-and-white image of a person with curly hair, red text overlay reading 'Johnny', and a gray rectangular area on the right side.

Black-and-white image of a person with curly hair, red text overlay reading 'Johnny', and a gray rectangular area on the right side. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Interne…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • top-left text
  • right-side rectangle
  • centered face

Dense Caption

Black-and-white image of a person with curly hair. Red text overlay reading 'Johnny' positioned across the top-left portion of the image. Gray rectangular area occupies the right side of the image. The person has a wide smile showing teeth. The image has a pixelated, low-resolution appearance. The person's hair is dark and curly, framing the face. The background is indistinct. The image appears to be a composite with a solid gray section on the right.

Description

  • Black-and-white image of a person with curly hair, red text overlay reading 'Johnny', and a gray rectangular area on the right side.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 20080709074932596385918
  • 20080709074952245598932

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Johnny text
  • gray rectangle
  • smiling person
  • black-and-white image
  • curly hair
  • pixelated image
  • text overlay
  • composite image

Objects

  • text overlay

Preprocessing Notes

  • image contains a gray rectangle on the right side

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Visible Text

  • Johnny

Wordwall

  • black-and-white
  • curly hair
  • red text
  • gray rectangle
  • wide smile
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • composite image
  • text overlay
  • smiling person

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080709074952245598932
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080709074932596385918
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
3.7 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/f8/f860c871851f4d9833b346c37c65e151efc0bc91c0231fe093e84043718d8151.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 UTC
Archive ID
f860c871851f4d98
SHA-256
f860c871851f4d9833b346c37c65e151efc0bc91c0231fe093e84043718d8151
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 9, 2026 at 21:36 UTC
Run
1278
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.010135

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:06 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.196100

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Black-and-white image of a person with curly hair, red text overlay reading 'Johnny', and a gray rectangular area on the right side.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 11:21 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,150 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,156, response 771

Review tags

  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • gray rectangle (object, 0.80)
  • text overlay (object, 0.80)
  • composite (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • red
  • gray

Composition

  • top-left text
  • right-side rectangle
  • centered face

Dense Caption

Black-and-white image of a person with curly hair. Red text overlay reading 'Johnny' positioned across the top-left portion of the image. Gray rectangular area occupies the right side of the image. The person has a wide smile showing teeth. The image has a pixelated, low-resolution appearance. The person's hair is dark and curly, framing the face. The background is indistinct. The image appears to be a composite with a solid gray section on the right.

Description

  • Black-and-white image of a person with curly hair, red text overlay reading 'Johnny', and a gray rectangular area on the right side.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 20080709074932596385918
  • 20080709074952245598932

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • happy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Johnny text
  • gray rectangle
  • smiling person
  • black-and-white image
  • curly hair
  • pixelated image
  • text overlay
  • composite image

Objects

  • text overlay
  • gray rectangle

Preprocessing Notes

  • image contains a gray rectangle on the right side

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • composite

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • Johnny

Wordwall

  • black-and-white
  • curly hair
  • red text
  • gray rectangle
  • wide smile
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • composite image
  • text overlay
  • smiling person
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Full source records (2)

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
20080709074952245598932
Archive entry
20080709074952245598932.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 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#20080709074952245598932.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080709074952245598932.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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
20080709074932596385918
Archive entry
20080709074932596385918.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 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#20080709074932596385918.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080709074932596385918.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016