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Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with dark hair holding a microphone stand, smiling slightly against a gradient background.

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Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with dark hair holding a microphone stand, smiling slightly against a gradient background.

Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with dark hair holding a microphone stand, smiling slightly against a gradient background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archi…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • chest-up view
  • vertical microphone stand on left
  • gradient background bands

Dense Caption

Monochrome 8-bit style icon shows a figure from the chest up. The figure has short, thick dark hair and is wearing a light-colored shirt. A thin vertical black line extends upward from the lower-left portion of the frame, representing a microphone stand with a small rectangular top element. The background consists of horizontal bands transitioning from light gray at the bottom to darker gray at the top. Pixelation creates blocky textures across all elements. No text is visible in the image.

Description

  • Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with dark hair holding a microphone stand, smiling slightly against a gradient background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person microphone stand
  • monochrome chest-up figure
  • 8-bit style smiling face
  • gradient background pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • upscaling detected from original low-resolution source

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 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

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • monochrome
  • pixelated
  • 8-bit style
  • figure chest-up view
  • dark hair
  • light shirt
  • microphone stand
  • gradient background
  • horizontal bands
  • blocky texture

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080820001534632763236
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.1 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/1c/1c379cd50c4f92a31ee107693a1b7e8aee89c3028195a940158739e525d1fd96.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 UTC
Archive ID
1c379cd50c4f92a3
SHA-256
1c379cd50c4f92a31ee107693a1b7e8aee89c3028195a940158739e525d1fd96
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 11, 2026 at 05:18 UTC
Run
1281
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.083350

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:13 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.178988

OpenAI category scores

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Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with dark hair holding a microphone stand, smiling slightly against a gradient background.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 20:21 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,112 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,094, response 674

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • slightly smiling (mood, 0.80)
  • microphone stand (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • monochrome (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding
  • smiling

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • chest-up view
  • vertical microphone stand on left
  • gradient background bands

Dense Caption

Monochrome 8-bit style icon shows a figure from the chest up. The figure has short, thick dark hair and is wearing a light-colored shirt. A thin vertical black line extends upward from the lower-left portion of the frame, representing a microphone stand with a small rectangular top element. The background consists of horizontal bands transitioning from light gray at the bottom to darker gray at the top. Pixelation creates blocky textures across all elements. No text is visible in the image.

Description

  • Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with dark hair holding a microphone stand, smiling slightly against a gradient background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Mood

  • neutral
  • slightly smiling

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person microphone stand
  • monochrome chest-up figure
  • 8-bit style smiling face
  • gradient background pixel art

Objects

  • microphone stand

Preprocessing Notes

  • upscaling detected from original low-resolution source

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 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

Style

  • pixel art
  • monochrome
  • 8-bit

Subjects

  • person

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

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  • pixelated
  • 8-bit style
  • figure chest-up view
  • dark hair
  • light shirt
  • microphone stand
  • gradient background
  • horizontal bands
  • blocky texture
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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
20080820001534632763236
Archive entry
20080820001534632763236.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 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#20080820001534632763236.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080820001534632763236.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016