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Pixelated image of a person with dark skin wearing a blue cap and light-colored shirt, holding a dark object near their chest.

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Pixelated image of a person with dark skin wearing a blue cap and light-colored shirt, holding a dark object near their chest.

Pixelated image of a person with dark skin wearing a blue cap and light-colored shirt, holding a dark object near their chest. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Frank…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • person centered
  • object held near chest
  • bright spot on left

Dense Caption

Pixelated image shows a person with dark skin wearing a blue cap and light-colored shirt. The person is holding a dark object near their chest. Background is light gray with a bright white spot on the left. The image has low resolution and visible pixelation. No text is visible. The person's face is partially obscured by pixelation. The object held appears to be a small, dark, rounded item. The lighting suggests an indoor setting with a light source on the left.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with dark skin wearing a blue cap and light-colored shirt, holding a dark object near their chest.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200811201742351852044236

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person blue cap light shirt holding dark object
  • pixelated image dark skin blue cap
  • light gray background bright white spot
  • low resolution pixelated image

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled

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

Wordwall

  • dark skin
  • blue cap
  • light-colored shirt
  • dark object
  • light gray background
  • bright white spot
  • pixelated
  • indoor lighting
  • partially obscured face
  • low resolution

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200811201742351852044236
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/0f/0f7db86222191faf0c801d6725c03efdbfe0e78482ba7ad4f7500ccd44721f92.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC
Archive ID
0f7db86222191faf
SHA-256
0f7db86222191faf0c801d6725c03efdbfe0e78482ba7ad4f7500ccd44721f92
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 16, 2026 at 13:56 UTC
Run
1298
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.022930

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:59 UTC
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106
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image of a person with dark skin wearing a blue cap and light-colored shirt, holding a dark object near their chest.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 09:48 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,712 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,090, response 803

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • dark (color, 0.80)
  • light colored (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • dark object (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding

Colors

  • blue
  • light-colored
  • dark
  • light gray
  • white

Composition

  • person centered
  • object held near chest
  • bright spot on left

Dense Caption

Pixelated image shows a person with dark skin wearing a blue cap and light-colored shirt. The person is holding a dark object near their chest. Background is light gray with a bright white spot on the left. The image has low resolution and visible pixelation. No text is visible. The person's face is partially obscured by pixelation. The object held appears to be a small, dark, rounded item. The lighting suggests an indoor setting with a light source on the left.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with dark skin wearing a blue cap and light-colored shirt, holding a dark object near their chest.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200811201742351852044236

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person blue cap light shirt holding dark object
  • pixelated image dark skin blue cap
  • light gray background bright white spot
  • low resolution pixelated image

Objects

  • dark object

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low resolution

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • dark skin
  • blue cap
  • light-colored shirt
  • dark object
  • light gray background
  • bright white spot
  • pixelated
  • indoor lighting
  • partially obscured face
  • low resolution
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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
200811201742351852044236
Archive entry
200811201742351852044236.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 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#200811201742351852044236.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200811201742351852044236.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016