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Red text on dark background with metallic objects and a gray rectangle.

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Red text on dark background with metallic objects and a gray rectangle.

Red text on dark background with metallic objects and a gray rectangle. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2000s to Mid-…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text split into two sections
  • solid gray area on right
  • blurry background elements

Dense Caption

The image shows red pixelated text reading "holding your head up is hard when you just want to stay on the ground" over a dark, blurry background featuring metallic shapes. A solid light gray rectangular area occupies the right portion of the frame. The text appears in two sections: upper left and lower left.

Description

  • Red text on dark background with metallic objects and a gray rectangle.

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 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
  • 200809271530471817269326

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red text holding your head up
  • gray rectangle dark background
  • metallic shapes pixelated text
  • text split two sections

Visible Text

  • holding your head up is hard when you just want to stay on the ground

Wordwall

  • red text
  • pixelated font
  • dark background
  • metallic objects
  • gray rectangle

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200809271530471817269326
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.2 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/fc/fc9af01aef9548d9a2a8706167351330c673856d400d936a61555b33d47f10cd.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC
Archive ID
fc9af01aef9548d9
SHA-256
fc9af01aef9548d9a2a8706167351330c673856d400d936a61555b33d47f10cd
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 18, 2026 at 04:37 UTC
Run
1312
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000521

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 29, 2026 at 12:31 UTC
Run
1245
Input
image+text
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 23, 2026 at 16:56 UTC
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1039
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Red text on dark background with metallic objects and a gray rectangle.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 01:55 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,987 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 619

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • dark gray (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution image (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated text (style, 0.80)
  • gray rectangle (subject, 0.80)
  • metallic shapes (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • dark gray
  • light gray
  • black

Composition

  • text split into two sections
  • solid gray area on right
  • blurry background elements

Dense Caption

The image shows red pixelated text reading "holding your head up is hard when you just want to stay on the ground" over a dark, blurry background featuring metallic shapes. A solid light gray rectangular area occupies the right portion of the frame. The text appears in two sections: upper left and lower left.

Description

  • Red text on dark background with metallic objects and a gray rectangle.

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 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
  • 200809271530471817269326

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red text holding your head up
  • gray rectangle dark background
  • metallic shapes pixelated text
  • text split two sections

Objects

  • metallic shapes
  • gray rectangle

Style

  • pixelated text
  • low-resolution image

Subjects

  • text
  • metallic shapes
  • gray rectangle

Visible Text

  • holding your head up is hard when you just want to stay on the ground

Wordwall

  • red text
  • pixelated font
  • dark background
  • metallic objects
  • gray rectangle
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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
200809271530471817269326
Archive entry
200809271530471817269326.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 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#200809271530471817269326.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200809271530471817269326.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016