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Pixelated red background with dark text and a stylized figure in black-and-white tones.

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Pixelated red background with dark text and a stylized figure in black-and-white tones.

Pixelated red background with dark text and a stylized figure in black-and-white tones. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2000s…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central text
  • left-aligned figure
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The image features a solid red background. At the top, there is partially visible pixelated text that appears to read "I'm dying" followed by additional obscured words. Below this, centered text reads "dying" in a large, dark cursive font. To the left of the central text, there is a stylized figure with black hair and white facial features rendered in grayscale tones. The figure's body is mostly black with some gray shading. Additional pixelated red text appears below the main words but remains unreadable due to low resolution.

Description

  • Pixelated red background with dark text and a stylized figure in black-and-white tones.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200710200813511752052277
  • 200710200824261394889434

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Named Entities

  • figure

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background dying figure
  • pixelated red text grayscale figure
  • dying cursive font figure
  • grayscale figure red background

Preprocessing Notes

  • low-resolution pixel art with heavy compression artifacts

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Subjects

  • figure

Uncertain Text

  • I'm dying
  • I'm dying to see you
  • I'm dying to see you again

Visible Text

  • dying

Visually Supported Entities

  • figure

Wordwall

  • red background
  • pixelated text
  • dying text
  • stylized figure
  • black hair
  • white face
  • grayscale tones
  • cursive font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200710200813511752052277
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200710200824261394889434
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.6 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ff/ffc9e1c3492c59085d54b47a1385901b6ddd7203f585f6377adfd587b11c5650.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 UTC
Archive ID
ffc9e1c3492c5908
SHA-256
ffc9e1c3492c59085d54b47a1385901b6ddd7203f585f6377adfd587b11c5650
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:10 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.075479

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.924521onnx/unsafe0.075479onnx/nsfw0.039347onnx/nsfl0.036132
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Pixelated red background with dark text and a stylized figure in black-and-white tones.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 11:25 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,364 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,139, response 798

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • melancholic (mood, 0.80)
  • somber (mood, 0.80)
  • cursive text (style, 0.80)
  • grayscale figure (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • figure (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • central text
  • left-aligned figure
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The image features a solid red background. At the top, there is partially visible pixelated text that appears to read "I'm dying" followed by additional obscured words. Below this, centered text reads "dying" in a large, dark cursive font. To the left of the central text, there is a stylized figure with black hair and white facial features rendered in grayscale tones. The figure's body is mostly black with some gray shading. Additional pixelated red text appears below the main words but remains unreadable due to low resolution.

Description

  • Pixelated red background with dark text and a stylized figure in black-and-white tones.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200710200813511752052277
  • 200710200824261394889434

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • melancholic
  • somber

Named Entities

  • figure

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background dying figure
  • pixelated red text grayscale figure
  • dying cursive font figure
  • grayscale figure red background

Preprocessing Notes

  • low-resolution pixel art with heavy compression artifacts

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Style

  • pixelated
  • cursive text
  • grayscale figure

Subjects

  • figure

Uncertain Text

  • I'm dying
  • I'm dying to see you
  • I'm dying to see you again

Visible Text

  • dying

Visually Supported Entities

  • figure

Wordwall

  • red background
  • pixelated text
  • dying text
  • stylized figure
  • black hair
  • white face
  • grayscale tones
  • cursive font
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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
200710200813511752052277
Archive entry
200710200813511752052277.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 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#200710200813511752052277.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200710200813511752052277.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
200710200824261394889434
Archive entry
200710200824261394889434.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 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#200710200824261394889434.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200710200824261394889434.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016