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Pixelated purple-toned face with mustache appears alongside red text reading 'SMOKIN' ACES' and distorted 'MESSNER' on black background.

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Pixelated purple-toned face with mustache appears alongside red text reading 'SMOKIN' ACES' and distorted 'MESSNER' on black background.

Pixelated purple-toned face with mustache appears alongside red text reading 'SMOKIN' ACES' and distorted 'MESSNER' on black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Int…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • two faces on black background
  • text spans right and bottom

Dense Caption

Black background features two pixelated purple-toned human faces with mustaches, positioned top-left and center-right. Red blocky text spans the right side: 'SMOKIN'' above 'ACES'. Below both faces, red text reads 'MESSNER', distorted by horizontal pixelation. The image uses a limited color palette of black, purple, and red. Pixelation creates a low-resolution, retro-digital aesthetic.

Description

  • Pixelated purple-toned face with mustache appears alongside red text reading 'SMOKIN' ACES' and distorted 'MESSNER' on black background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (official; search): smokin-aces
  • observation title (official): messner
  • observation title (curated-homogeneous): messner
  • observation file-name (official): messner
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): messner
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): smoking_aces_icons
  • observation file-name (official): smoking_aces_icons
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icons
  • provenance era: 2006
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive Smokin' Aces AIM Icons
  • provenance source-name: Smokin' Aces Official-Site AIM Icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2006
  • provenance era: 2006-2007 Official Film Promotion
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2007
  • provenance era: 2007 Film Promotion

Metadata Only Entities

  • unconfirmed visuallySupportedEntities not promoted: SMOKIN' ACES

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • smokin aces messner
  • messner smokin aces
  • aces messner smokin
  • smokin aces pixelated

Visible Text

  • SMOKIN'
  • ACES
  • MESSNER

Visually Supported Entities

  • MESSNER

Wordwall

  • two human faces
  • mustaches
  • red blocky text
  • black background
  • pixelated
  • horizontal distortion
  • SMOKIN' ACES
  • MESSNER

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
5.8 KB
Motion
Animated (12 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/07/07d07b110463c49ad8401e032f55ba4aee77ca8d2ecd343d3b21c3244c77f2f4.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:55 UTC
Archive ID
07d07b110463c49a
SHA-256
07d07b110463c49ad8401e032f55ba4aee77ca8d2ecd343d3b21c3244c77f2f4
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:44 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.512372

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated purple-toned face with mustache appears alongside red text reading 'SMOKIN' ACES' and distorted 'MESSNER' on black background.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 17:07 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,512 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,099, response 713

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • edgy (mood, 0.80)
  • gritty (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • human face (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • purple
  • red

Composition

  • two faces on black background
  • text spans right and bottom

Dense Caption

Black background features two pixelated purple-toned human faces with mustaches, positioned top-left and center-right. Red blocky text spans the right side: 'SMOKIN'' above 'ACES'. Below both faces, red text reads 'MESSNER', distorted by horizontal pixelation. The image uses a limited color palette of black, purple, and red. Pixelation creates a low-resolution, retro-digital aesthetic.

Description

  • Pixelated purple-toned face with mustache appears alongside red text reading 'SMOKIN' ACES' and distorted 'MESSNER' on black background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (official; search): smokin-aces
  • observation title (official): messner
  • observation title (curated-homogeneous): messner
  • observation file-name (official): messner
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): messner
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): smoking_aces_icons
  • observation file-name (official): smoking_aces_icons
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icons
  • provenance era: 2006
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive Smokin' Aces AIM Icons
  • provenance source-name: Smokin' Aces Official-Site AIM Icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2006
  • provenance era: 2006-2007 Official Film Promotion
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2007
  • provenance era: 2007 Film Promotion

Metadata Only Entities

  • unconfirmed visuallySupportedEntities not promoted: SMOKIN' ACES

Mood

  • edgy
  • gritty

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • smokin aces messner
  • messner smokin aces
  • aces messner smokin
  • smokin aces pixelated

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky text
  • retro-digital

Subjects

  • human face

Visible Text

  • SMOKIN'
  • ACES
  • MESSNER

Visually Supported Entities

  • MESSNER

Wordwall

  • two human faces
  • mustaches
  • red blocky text
  • black background
  • pixelated
  • horizontal distortion
  • SMOKIN' ACES
  • MESSNER
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Full source records (2)

Internet Archive Smokin' Aces AIM Icons (internet-archive-smoking-aces-aim-icons)

Kind
local-directory
Era
2007 Film Promotion
Type
Internet Archive ZIP explicitly labeled AIM icons
Category
_icons
Title
messner
Archive entry
_icons/messner.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:55 UTC
Rights
copyrighted film and celebrity imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
official or promotional action-film character AIM icons

Original: https://archive.org/download/smoking_aces_icons/smoking_aces_icons.zip#_icons%2Fmessner.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/smoking_aces_icons/smoking_aces_icons.zip#_icons%2Fmessner.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/smoking_aces_icons

Smokin' Aces Official-Site AIM Icons (internet-archive-smokin-aces-official-aim-icons)

Kind
local-directory
Era
2006-2007 Official Film Promotion
Type
original animated AIM icon ZIP from the official film website, preserved by Internet Archive
Title
messner
Archive entry
messner.gif
Observed
July 21, 2026 at 19:27 UTC
Rights
official copyrighted promotional film artwork; research/reference only by default
Slice
official ensemble action-film character identity icons distributed through a theatrical promotional site

Original: https://archive.org/download/smoking_aces_icons/smoking_aces_icons.zip#messner.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/smoking_aces_icons/smoking_aces_icons.zip#messner.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/smoking_aces_icons