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Pixelated image of a person holding a microphone against a red and yellow background.

Pixelated image of a person holding a microphone against a red and yellow background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2000s to…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • figure centered
  • background split vertically

Dense Caption

The icon shows a pixelated figure with short dark hair wearing a dark blue shirt. The figure holds a silver and black microphone in their right hand, raised near the face. Background consists of solid red on the right side and muted yellow on the left. Pixelation obscures fine facial features but suggests a neutral expression. No visible text or symbols present.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person holding a microphone against a red and yellow background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person holding microphone
  • red and yellow background
  • dark blue shirt
  • pixelated figure

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original dimensions

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • 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

Visually Supported Entities

  • celebrities

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • microphone
  • dark blue shirt
  • red background
  • yellow background
  • neutral expression
  • short dark hair

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2007101615132327322385
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:50 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/14/1419caa79a2a522e93aa3a6b2ae21b28c4bf2b80e3d7b65be1e5d8a0d2c9e4f5.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:50 UTC
Archive ID
1419caa79a2a522e
SHA-256
1419caa79a2a522e93aa3a6b2ae21b28c4bf2b80e3d7b65be1e5d8a0d2c9e4f5
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:04 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.066908

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.933092onnx/unsafe0.066908onnx/nsfw0.035105onnx/nsfl0.031803
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Pixelated image of a person holding a microphone against a red and yellow background.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 10:32 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,399 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,090, response 609

Review tags

  • holding microphone (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • silver (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • microphone (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding microphone

Colors

  • red
  • yellow
  • dark blue
  • silver
  • black

Composition

  • figure centered
  • background split vertically

Dense Caption

The icon shows a pixelated figure with short dark hair wearing a dark blue shirt. The figure holds a silver and black microphone in their right hand, raised near the face. Background consists of solid red on the right side and muted yellow on the left. Pixelation obscures fine facial features but suggests a neutral expression. No visible text or symbols present.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person holding a microphone against a red and yellow background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person holding microphone
  • red and yellow background
  • dark blue shirt
  • pixelated figure

Objects

  • microphone

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original dimensions

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • 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

Visually Supported Entities

  • celebrities

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • microphone
  • dark blue shirt
  • red background
  • yellow background
  • neutral expression
  • short dark hair
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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
2007101615132327322385
Archive entry
2007101615132327322385.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:50 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#2007101615132327322385.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2007101615132327322385.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016