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Blue and silver handheld device with screen, headphones, and circular button; adjacent black-and-white text reads BRAD.

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Blue and silver handheld device with screen, headphones, and circular button; adjacent black-and-white text reads BRAD.

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • device on left
  • text on right
  • white background

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated blue and silver handheld electronic device resembling an MP3 player or early smartphone. It has a rectangular dark screen on the front, a white circular area above the screen, and gray side buttons. A pair of headphones with a black earpiece is connected to the bottom left. To the right, bold black-and-white text spells 'BRAD' in blocky capital letters with pixelated edges.

Description

  • Blue and silver handheld device with screen, headphones, and circular button; adjacent black-and-white text reads BRAD.

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

  • blue handheld device brad
  • pixelated mp3 player brad
  • handheld electronic device headphones brad
  • blocky text brad pixel art

Visible Text

  • BRAD

Visually Supported Entities

  • BRAD

Wordwall

  • blue handheld device
  • silver accents
  • dark rectangular screen
  • white circular area
  • gray side buttons
  • black earpiece headphones
  • blocky white text
  • black outline text
  • pixelated style

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080111132251147598903
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:09 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/2a/2a95f47f3bca805464e1d06dddf243e31995c2308222706018dbbacc3e08c4df.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:09 UTC
Archive ID
2a95f47f3bca8054
SHA-256
2a95f47f3bca805464e1d06dddf243e31995c2308222706018dbbacc3e08c4df
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:28 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.097999

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.932845onnx/unsafe0.097999onnx/nsfw0.060966onnx/nsfl0.037033
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Blue and silver handheld device with screen, headphones, and circular button; adjacent black-and-white text reads BRAD.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 09:25 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,122 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,144, response 594

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • dark gray (color, 0.80)
  • silver (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • circular button (object, 0.80)
  • earpiece (object, 0.80)
  • screen (object, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • handheld electronic device (subject, 0.80)
  • headphones (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • silver
  • dark gray
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • device on left
  • text on right
  • white background

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated blue and silver handheld electronic device resembling an MP3 player or early smartphone. It has a rectangular dark screen on the front, a white circular area above the screen, and gray side buttons. A pair of headphones with a black earpiece is connected to the bottom left. To the right, bold black-and-white text spells 'BRAD' in blocky capital letters with pixelated edges.

Description

  • Blue and silver handheld device with screen, headphones, and circular button; adjacent black-and-white text reads BRAD.

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

  • blue handheld device brad
  • pixelated mp3 player brad
  • handheld electronic device headphones brad
  • blocky text brad pixel art

Objects

  • screen
  • circular button
  • earpiece

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky text

Subjects

  • handheld electronic device
  • headphones

Visible Text

  • BRAD

Visually Supported Entities

  • BRAD

Wordwall

  • blue handheld device
  • silver accents
  • dark rectangular screen
  • white circular area
  • gray side buttons
  • black earpiece headphones
  • blocky white text
  • black outline text
  • pixelated style
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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
20080111132251147598903
Archive entry
20080111132251147598903.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:09 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#20080111132251147598903.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080111132251147598903.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016