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A person in a dark shirt and light pants holds a brown object, with a blurred background and a gray overlay on the right side.

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A person in a dark shirt and light pants holds a brown object, with a blurred background and a gray overlay on the right side.

A person in a dark shirt and light pants holds a brown object, with a blurred background and a gray overlay on the right side. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Arch…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static

Animation Summary

  • Static image with gray overlay on right side

Composition

  • person centered
  • gray overlay on right

Dense Caption

A person wearing a dark short-sleeve shirt and light-colored pants holds a brown rectangular object in both hands. The person's face is visible with a neutral expression. The background is blurred and indistinct. The right side of the image contains a solid gray overlay. The image has a pixelated appearance with low resolution.

Description

  • A person in a dark shirt and light pants holds a brown object, with a blurred background and a gray overlay on the right side.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person holding brown object
  • dark shirt light pants
  • gray overlay pixelated
  • neutral expression low resolution

Preprocessing Notes

  • gray overlay on right side of image

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Wordwall

  • dark shirt
  • light pants
  • brown object
  • neutral expression
  • blurred background
  • gray overlay
  • pixelated
  • low resolution

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200907212110032029121989
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/11/11404a7add0ce89992e7b45e4941d2f5f15e0039ee2e966cb518c02b0268cc48.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 UTC
Archive ID
11404a7add0ce899
SHA-256
11404a7add0ce89992e7b45e4941d2f5f15e0039ee2e966cb518c02b0268cc48
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
July 31, 2026 at 20:02 UTC
Run
1252
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.016172

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:01 UTC
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106
Input
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Overall label
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A person in a dark shirt and light pants holds a brown object, with a blurred background and a gray overlay on the right side.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 15:03 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,240 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 699

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • brown object (object, 0.80)
  • static (other, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding

Animation

  • static

Animation Summary

  • Static image with gray overlay on right side

Colors

  • dark
  • light
  • brown
  • gray

Composition

  • person centered
  • gray overlay on right

Dense Caption

A person wearing a dark short-sleeve shirt and light-colored pants holds a brown rectangular object in both hands. The person's face is visible with a neutral expression. The background is blurred and indistinct. The right side of the image contains a solid gray overlay. The image has a pixelated appearance with low resolution.

Description

  • A person in a dark shirt and light pants holds a brown object, with a blurred background and a gray overlay on the right side.

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

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person holding brown object
  • dark shirt light pants
  • gray overlay pixelated
  • neutral expression low resolution

Objects

  • brown object

Preprocessing Notes

  • gray overlay on right side of image

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • low resolution

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • dark shirt
  • light pants
  • brown object
  • neutral expression
  • blurred background
  • gray overlay
  • pixelated
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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
200907212110032029121989
Archive entry
200907212110032029121989.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 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#200907212110032029121989.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200907212110032029121989.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016