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Six distinct views of a person with varying hair colors and expressions, including one view with red text overlay.

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Six distinct views of a person with varying hair colors and expressions, including one view with red text overlay.

Six distinct views of a person with varying hair colors and expressions, including one view with red text overlay. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIc…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • six
  • various backgrounds

Dense Caption

Top-left: Person with dark hair against pink background, wearing black shirt, making hand gesture; white pixelated text "APAM" below. Top-middle: Same person in light-colored room, brown hair, neutral expression. Top-right: Same person in indoor setting, brown hair, mouth slightly open. Bottom-left: Same person in dimly lit room, dark spiky hair, serious expression. Bottom-middle: Same person holding microphone, long brown hair, bright background. Bottom-right: Same person with reddish-brown hair, smiling, blurred interior background.

Description

  • Six distinct views of a person with varying hair colors and expressions, including one view with red text overlay.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person with red eye effects
  • microphone held person
  • pink background APAM text
  • six person views

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: six-panel grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: six panel grid person views

Visible Text

  • APAM

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • white pixelated text APAM
  • red eye effects
  • hand gesture
  • microphone held
  • spiky dark hair
  • long brown hair
  • reddish-brown hair
  • neutral expression
  • slightly open mouth
  • serious expression
  • smiling

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200803212050522127523242
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:20 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
9.9 KB
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/12/12d563a0047999694f388a3e68fb2c92ed8dd335be71aed0e072beeea21efa11.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:20 UTC
Archive ID
12d563a004799969
SHA-256
12d563a0047999694f388a3e68fb2c92ed8dd335be71aed0e072beeea21efa11
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:03 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.116849

OpenAI category scores

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Six distinct views of a person with varying hair colors and expressions, including one view with red text overlay.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 09:18 UTC
Run
57
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,225 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,164, response 631

Review tags

  • holding microphone (action, 0.80)
  • making hand gesture (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • serious (mood, 0.80)
  • smiling (mood, 0.80)
  • microphone (object, 0.80)
  • grainy (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • making hand gesture
  • holding microphone

Colors

  • pink
  • black
  • brown
  • red
  • white
  • yellow
  • blue

Composition

  • six
  • various backgrounds

Dense Caption

Top-left: Person with dark hair against pink background, wearing black shirt, making hand gesture; white pixelated text "APAM" below. Top-middle: Same person in light-colored room, brown hair, neutral expression. Top-right: Same person in indoor setting, brown hair, mouth slightly open. Bottom-left: Same person in dimly lit room, dark spiky hair, serious expression. Bottom-middle: Same person holding microphone, long brown hair, bright background. Bottom-right: Same person with reddish-brown hair, smiling, blurred interior background.

Description

  • Six distinct views of a person with varying hair colors and expressions, including one view with red text overlay.

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

Mood

  • neutral
  • serious
  • smiling

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person with red eye effects
  • microphone held person
  • pink background APAM text
  • six person views

Objects

  • microphone

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: six-panel grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: six panel grid person views

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • grainy

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • APAM

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • white pixelated text APAM
  • red eye effects
  • hand gesture
  • microphone held
  • spiky dark hair
  • long brown hair
  • reddish-brown hair
  • neutral expression
  • slightly open mouth
  • serious expression
  • smiling
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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
200803212050522127523242
Archive entry
200803212050522127523242.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:20 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#200803212050522127523242.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200803212050522127523242.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016