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Pixelated image of a person with dark hair wearing a yellow and purple garment, hand raised near head, mouth open in a smile.

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Pixelated image of a person with dark hair wearing a yellow and purple garment, hand raised near head, mouth open in a smile.

Pixelated image of a person with dark hair wearing a yellow and purple garment, hand raised near head, mouth open in a smile. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Franks…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • cropped at shoulders
  • face turned slightly left

Dense Caption

Pixelated image shows a person with dark brown hair, wearing a yellow garment with a purple inner layer. The person's right hand is raised near the head, fingers extended. The mouth is open in a smile, showing teeth. Background is indistinct with muted brown and yellow tones. Image has low resolution with visible pixelation. No text or symbols are present. The person's eyes are partially closed or squinting. The right shoulder is visible, and the left side of the face is turned slightly toward the viewer.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with dark hair wearing a yellow and purple garment, hand raised near head, mouth open in a smile.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person smiling hand raised dark brown hair yellow purple clothing
  • pixelated low resolution image dark brown hair yellow garment
  • hand raised near head open mouth smile teeth
  • indistinct background muted brown yellow tones
  • close-up cropped shoulders face turned left
  • partially closed eyes right shoulder visible
  • yellow purple clothing pixelated image
  • mood happy playful

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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

Wordwall

  • dark brown hair
  • yellow garment
  • purple inner layer
  • hand raised near head
  • open mouth smile
  • visible teeth
  • indistinct background
  • low resolution
  • pixelated
  • partially closed eyes
  • right shoulder visible
  • left side of face turned

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200910221227072107685176
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/26/2655226fab2bda3536421c8da95e0d993b88241830d58a841e7b11f052338f4c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 UTC
Archive ID
2655226fab2bda35
SHA-256
2655226fab2bda3536421c8da95e0d993b88241830d58a841e7b11f052338f4c
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:23 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.103866

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.896134onnx/unsafe0.103866onnx/nsfw0.066672onnx/nsfl0.037194
Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated image of a person with dark hair wearing a yellow and purple garment, hand raised near head, mouth open in a smile.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 19:18 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,136 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,096, response 845

Review tags

  • hand raised (action, 0.80)
  • head turned (action, 0.80)
  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • dark brown (color, 0.80)
  • muted brown (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • hand raised
  • smiling
  • head turned

Colors

  • dark brown
  • yellow
  • purple
  • muted brown
  • muted yellow

Composition

  • close-up
  • cropped at shoulders
  • face turned slightly left

Dense Caption

Pixelated image shows a person with dark brown hair, wearing a yellow garment with a purple inner layer. The person's right hand is raised near the head, fingers extended. The mouth is open in a smile, showing teeth. Background is indistinct with muted brown and yellow tones. Image has low resolution with visible pixelation. No text or symbols are present. The person's eyes are partially closed or squinting. The right shoulder is visible, and the left side of the face is turned slightly toward the viewer.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with dark hair wearing a yellow and purple garment, hand raised near head, mouth open in a smile.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Mood

  • happy
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person smiling hand raised dark brown hair yellow purple clothing
  • pixelated low resolution image dark brown hair yellow garment
  • hand raised near head open mouth smile teeth
  • indistinct background muted brown yellow tones
  • close-up cropped shoulders face turned left
  • partially closed eyes right shoulder visible
  • yellow purple clothing pixelated image
  • mood happy playful

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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

Wordwall

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  • yellow garment
  • purple inner layer
  • hand raised near head
  • open mouth smile
  • visible teeth
  • indistinct background
  • low resolution
  • pixelated
  • partially closed eyes
  • right shoulder visible
  • left side of face turned
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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
200910221227072107685176
Archive entry
200910221227072107685176.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 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#200910221227072107685176.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200910221227072107685176.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016