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A pixelated image of a bald man with crossed arms, overlaid with red text reading 'mbu' on a white background.

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A pixelated image of a bald man with crossed arms, overlaid with red text reading 'mbu' on a white background.

A pixelated image of a bald man with crossed arms, overlaid with red text reading 'mbu' on a white background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • figure centered
  • text overlaid

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated figure of a bald man with crossed arms against a white background. The figure wears a dark shirt. Red text reading 'mbu' is overlaid on the lower portion of the figure. The image has a low-resolution, blurry appearance. The figure's face is partially obscured by the text. The overall style is pixelated with visible compression artifacts.

Description

  • A pixelated image of a bald man with crossed arms, overlaid with red text reading 'mbu' on a 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 200905040029331007381108

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • bald man crossed arms mbu
  • pixelated red text white background
  • mbu text figure
  • buddy icon bald man

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled

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

Visible Text

  • mbu

Wordwall

  • bald man
  • crossed arms
  • white background
  • red text
  • mbu
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • compression artifacts

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200905040029331007381108
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.4 KB
Motion
Animated (5 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/fa/faf26f98198d820d0a1a4861426c7e197fdebc27aff237ea32b755ffd8c4c30a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 UTC
Archive ID
faf26f98198d820d
SHA-256
faf26f98198d820d0a1a4861426c7e197fdebc27aff237ea32b755ffd8c4c30a
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 6, 2026 at 18:56 UTC
Run
1272
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.199454

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.199454falseviolence/graphic0.005471falseself-harm0.004847falsesexual0.000814falseself-harm/intent0.000238falseself-harm/instructions0.000222falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:08 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.258069

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.838013onnx/unsafe0.258069onnx/nsfw0.138295onnx/nsfl0.119774
Enrichment records (1)
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A pixelated image of a bald man with crossed arms, overlaid with red text reading 'mbu' on a white background.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 08:47 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,594 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,166, response 637

Review tags

  • crossed arms (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • bald man (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • crossed arms

Colors

  • red
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • figure centered
  • text overlaid

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated figure of a bald man with crossed arms against a white background. The figure wears a dark shirt. Red text reading 'mbu' is overlaid on the lower portion of the figure. The image has a low-resolution, blurry appearance. The figure's face is partially obscured by the text. The overall style is pixelated with visible compression artifacts.

Description

  • A pixelated image of a bald man with crossed arms, overlaid with red text reading 'mbu' on a 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 200905040029331007381108

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • bald man crossed arms mbu
  • pixelated red text white background
  • mbu text figure
  • buddy icon bald man

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • bald man

Visible Text

  • mbu

Wordwall

  • bald man
  • crossed arms
  • white background
  • red text
  • mbu
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • compression artifacts
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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
200905040029331007381108
Archive entry
200905040029331007381108.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 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#200905040029331007381108.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200905040029331007381108.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016