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A person with long dark hair and sunglasses poses against a warm-toned background with repeated 'T.W' text, wearing a red patterned top.

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A person with long dark hair and sunglasses poses against a warm-toned background with repeated 'T.W' text, wearing a red patterned top.

A person with long dark hair and sunglasses poses against a warm-toned background with repeated 'T.W' text, wearing a red patterned top. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Int…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • hand moves from raised to lowered
  • head tilts

Animation Summary

  • The person's hand moves from raised to lowered and the head tilts across the frames.

Composition

  • divided into sections
  • T.W text in upper left

Dense Caption

The image shows a person with long dark hair and dark sunglasses. The person is wearing a red patterned top. The background is warm-toned with repeated 'T.W' text in the upper left corner. The image is divided into three sections: the top left section shows the person with a hand raised near the face, the top right section shows the person with the hand lowered, and the bottom section shows the person with the head tilted. The rightmost section of the image is a solid gray color. The image has a pixelated appearance.

Description

  • A person with long dark hair and sunglasses poses against a warm-toned background with repeated 'T.W' text, wearing a red patterned top.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080727202401283445241
  • 20080727203928620403720

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person sunglasses red top
  • T.W text warm background
  • hand raised hand lowered
  • head tilted pixelated

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be a composite of multiple frames

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 topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Visible Text

  • T.W

Wordwall

  • long dark hair
  • sunglasses
  • red patterned top
  • warm-toned background
  • T.W text
  • hand raised
  • hand lowered
  • head tilted
  • pixelated
  • gray section

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080727202401283445241
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080727203928620403720
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.7 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/01/01f32efce79cb9644b59c1cb8a33fbe20e1bef70d20925c07b9cc278aa972b06.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 UTC
Archive ID
01f32efce79cb964
SHA-256
01f32efce79cb9644b59c1cb8a33fbe20e1bef70d20925c07b9cc278aa972b06
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 17, 2026 at 14:32 UTC
Run
1309
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000519

OpenAI category scores

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:51 UTC
Run
105
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.071390

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.071390falsesexual0.019469falseself-harm0.014888falseviolence/graphic0.001616falseself-harm/intent0.000346falseself-harm/instructions0.000267falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 22, 2026 at 08:41 UTC
Run
89
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.284552

OpenAI category scores

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A person with long dark hair and sunglasses poses against a warm-toned background with repeated 'T.W' text, wearing a red patterned top.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 14:31 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,768 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,150, response 848

Review tags

  • hand lowered (action, 0.80)
  • hand raised (action, 0.80)
  • head tilted (action, 0.80)
  • dark (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • warm toned (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • red patterned top (object, 0.80)
  • sunglasses (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • hand raised
  • hand lowered
  • head tilted

Animation

  • hand moves from raised to lowered
  • head tilts

Animation Summary

  • The person's hand moves from raised to lowered and the head tilts across the frames.

Colors

  • dark
  • red
  • warm-toned
  • gray

Composition

  • divided into sections
  • T.W text in upper left

Dense Caption

The image shows a person with long dark hair and dark sunglasses. The person is wearing a red patterned top. The background is warm-toned with repeated 'T.W' text in the upper left corner. The image is divided into three sections: the top left section shows the person with a hand raised near the face, the top right section shows the person with the hand lowered, and the bottom section shows the person with the head tilted. The rightmost section of the image is a solid gray color. The image has a pixelated appearance.

Description

  • A person with long dark hair and sunglasses poses against a warm-toned background with repeated 'T.W' text, wearing a red patterned top.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080727202401283445241
  • 20080727203928620403720

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person sunglasses red top
  • T.W text warm background
  • hand raised hand lowered
  • head tilted pixelated

Objects

  • sunglasses
  • red patterned top

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be a composite of multiple frames

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Style

  • pixelated

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • T.W

Wordwall

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  • sunglasses
  • red patterned top
  • warm-toned background
  • T.W text
  • hand raised
  • hand lowered
  • head tilted
  • pixelated
  • gray section
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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
20080727202401283445241
Archive entry
20080727202401283445241.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 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#20080727202401283445241.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080727202401283445241.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
20080727203928620403720
Archive entry
20080727203928620403720.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 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#20080727203928620403720.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080727203928620403720.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016