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Two figures in formal attire stand against a gray background; the left figure covers their face with hands while the right figure holds a microphone.

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Two figures in formal attire stand against a gray background; the left figure covers their face with hands while the right figure holds a microphone.

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • side-by-side
  • full-body
  • centered

Dense Caption

Two figures stand side-by-side against a solid gray background. The left figure has long dark hair, wears a white sleeveless top with a black waistband, and white pants; their hands cover their face. The right figure has short dark hair, wears a white shirt under a light gray suit jacket with black lapels, and holds a black microphone in their right hand. Both figures are rendered in a pixelated style with visible dithering. The left figure's pose suggests laughter or embarrassment, while the right figure's pose suggests speaking or performing. The image has no visible text or symbols.

Description

Two figures in formal attire stand against a gray background; the left figure covers their face with hands while the right figure holds a microphone.

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

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • two figures gray background
  • microphone holding
  • hands covering face
  • white sleeveless top black waistband
  • light gray suit jacket black lapels
  • pixelated style dithering
  • humorous speaking pose
  • gray background side-by-side figures

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 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

  • two figures
  • gray background
  • long dark hair
  • white sleeveless top
  • black waistband
  • white pants
  • hands covering face
  • short dark hair
  • white shirt
  • light gray suit jacket
  • black lapels
  • black microphone
  • pixelated style
  • dithering
  • laughing pose
  • speaking pose

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200907061609101795576432
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 UTC

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Technical archive details
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GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.7 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 UTC
Archive ID
1a2b0b0b69eafa14
SHA-256
1a2b0b0b69eafa1475bda368f72973da00b09fdfee8147b8a917d829e5d98863
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:11 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
0.091834

OpenAI category scores

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Two figures in formal attire stand against a gray background; the left figure covers their face with hands while the right figure holds a microphone.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 14:06 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,452 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,093, response 836

Review tags

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  • speaking (action, 0.80)
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  • performative (mood, 0.80)
  • dithered (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • microphone (subject, 0.80)
  • two figures (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • covering face
  • holding
  • speaking

Colors

  • gray
  • white
  • black
  • light gray

Composition

  • side-by-side
  • full-body
  • centered

Dense Caption

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Description

Two figures in formal attire stand against a gray background; the left figure covers their face with hands while the right figure holds a microphone.

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

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • humorous
  • performative

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • microphone holding
  • hands covering face
  • white sleeveless top black waistband
  • light gray suit jacket black lapels
  • pixelated style dithering
  • humorous speaking pose
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Objects

  • microphone

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
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  • pixelated
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Subjects

  • two figures
  • microphone

Wordwall

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  • black waistband
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  • hands covering face
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  • white shirt
  • light gray suit jacket
  • black lapels
  • black microphone
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  • laughing pose
  • speaking pose
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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
200907061609101795576432
Archive entry
200907061609101795576432.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#200907061609101795576432.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200907061609101795576432.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016