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A pixelated image of a person in a black hat and red scarf with text overlays changing across frames.

A pixelated image of a person in a black hat and red scarf with text overlays changing across frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bu…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • text changes
  • figure orientation changes

Animation Summary

Text overlays change across frames: "i luv mah" to "b lood always5" to "an for3vah <3"; figure orientation shifts from left-facing to right-facing and back to left-facing.

Composition

  • central figure
  • text overlays
  • faint background cursive

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated figure wearing a black tricorn hat and red scarf against a beige background with faint cursive text. The figure's pose changes across frames: in the first frame, the figure faces left with text "i luv mah"; in the second frame, the figure faces right with text "b lood always5"; in the third frame, the figure faces left again with text "an for3vah <3". The background has a textured, grainy appearance with visible pixelation. The text is white, blocky, and pixelated. The figure's clothing is dark, with a red scarf visible. The background includes faint, stylized cursive text that is not fully legible.

Description

  • A pixelated image of a person in a black hat and red scarf with text overlays changing across frames.

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

  • pixelated figure tricorn hat red scarf
  • text i luv mah b lood always5 an for3vah
  • beige background faint cursive text
  • white pixelated text changes
  • figure faces left right
  • text <3
  • text always5
  • text for3vah

Subjects

  • figure

Visible Text

  • i luv mah
  • b lood always5
  • an for3vah <3

Wordwall

  • black tricorn hat
  • red scarf
  • beige background
  • faint cursive text
  • white pixelated text
  • text changes across frames
  • figure faces left
  • figure faces right
  • text "i luv mah"
  • text "b lood always5"
  • text "an for3vah <3"

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200711231644471535201839
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:59 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
5 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/fd/fdce5dfd570e2dd7b22a0637b126f1b9903d31a5d251deb3e68644b78cae2d4b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:59 UTC
Archive ID
fdce5dfd570e2dd7
SHA-256
fdce5dfd570e2dd7b22a0637b126f1b9903d31a5d251deb3e68644b78cae2d4b
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:09 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.076458

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.928647onnx/unsafe0.076458onnx/nsfw0.038844onnx/nsfl0.037614
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A pixelated image of a person in a black hat and red scarf with text overlays changing across frames.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 10:45 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,496 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 824

Review tags

  • figure faces left (action, 0.80)
  • figure faces right (action, 0.80)
  • text changes (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • casual (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • scarf (object, 0.80)
  • tricorn hat (object, 0.80)
  • grainy (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text heavy (style, 0.80)
  • figure (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • text changes
  • figure faces left
  • figure faces right

Animation

  • text changes
  • figure orientation changes

Animation Summary

Text overlays change across frames: "i luv mah" to "b lood always5" to "an for3vah <3"; figure orientation shifts from left-facing to right-facing and back to left-facing.

Colors

  • black
  • red
  • beige
  • white

Composition

  • central figure
  • text overlays
  • faint background cursive

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated figure wearing a black tricorn hat and red scarf against a beige background with faint cursive text. The figure's pose changes across frames: in the first frame, the figure faces left with text "i luv mah"; in the second frame, the figure faces right with text "b lood always5"; in the third frame, the figure faces left again with text "an for3vah <3". The background has a textured, grainy appearance with visible pixelation. The text is white, blocky, and pixelated. The figure's clothing is dark, with a red scarf visible. The background includes faint, stylized cursive text that is not fully legible.

Description

  • A pixelated image of a person in a black hat and red scarf with text overlays changing across frames.

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

Mood

  • playful
  • casual

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated figure tricorn hat red scarf
  • text i luv mah b lood always5 an for3vah
  • beige background faint cursive text
  • white pixelated text changes
  • figure faces left right
  • text <3
  • text always5
  • text for3vah

Objects

  • tricorn hat
  • scarf

Style

  • pixelated
  • grainy
  • text-heavy

Subjects

  • figure

Visible Text

  • i luv mah
  • b lood always5
  • an for3vah <3

Wordwall

  • black tricorn hat
  • red scarf
  • beige background
  • faint cursive text
  • white pixelated text
  • text changes across frames
  • figure faces left
  • figure faces right
  • text "i luv mah"
  • text "b lood always5"
  • text "an for3vah <3"
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 21:14 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
Raw JSON
Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
200711231644471535201839
Archive entry
200711231644471535201839.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:59 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#200711231644471535201839.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200711231644471535201839.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016