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A pixelated image shows a person with dark hair holding a small device near their face against a muted brown background.

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A pixelated image shows a person with dark hair holding a small device near their face against a muted brown background.

A pixelated image shows a person with dark hair holding a small device near their face against a muted brown background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • figure right of center
  • solid background
  • no distinct features

Dense Caption

The image is a low-resolution, pixelated static icon. A figure with dark hair is positioned slightly right of center, holding a small rectangular device with a blue screen near their face. The figure wears a light-colored top. The background is a solid, muted brown with no distinct features. The image has visible pixelation and compression artifacts. No text is legible in the image. The figure's posture suggests they are looking at or interacting with the device. The lighting appears to be from the left, casting a subtle shadow on the right side of the figure's face.

Description

  • A pixelated image shows a person with dark hair holding a small device near their face against a muted brown background.

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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person holding small device
  • blue screen device
  • muted brown background
  • pixelated figure
  • light-colored top
  • left-side lighting
  • compression artifacts
  • no text

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains multiple era claims (2007, 2016) and collection hints (franksicons, 2007-2016)

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • dark hair
  • small device
  • blue screen
  • light-colored top
  • muted brown background
  • no text
  • left-side lighting
  • compression artifacts

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200812032152311164986062
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:45 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

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/31/31fac17b0c875bf1c5bb9658e2962bc33e1e03af7057dcc0229ae8f2d6c33060.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:45 UTC
Archive ID
31fac17b0c875bf1
SHA-256
31fac17b0c875bf1c5bb9658e2962bc33e1e03af7057dcc0229ae8f2d6c33060
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:35 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.109697

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.890303onnx/unsafe0.109697onnx/nsfw0.066092onnx/nsfl0.043605
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A pixelated image shows a person with dark hair holding a small device near their face against a muted brown background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 12:05 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,646 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,091, response 717

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • interacting with device (action, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark brown (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • small rectangular device (object, 0.80)
  • compression artifacts (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding
  • interacting with device

Colors

  • brown
  • dark brown
  • light brown
  • white
  • blue
  • gray

Composition

  • figure right of center
  • solid background
  • no distinct features

Dense Caption

The image is a low-resolution, pixelated static icon. A figure with dark hair is positioned slightly right of center, holding a small rectangular device with a blue screen near their face. The figure wears a light-colored top. The background is a solid, muted brown with no distinct features. The image has visible pixelation and compression artifacts. No text is legible in the image. The figure's posture suggests they are looking at or interacting with the device. The lighting appears to be from the left, casting a subtle shadow on the right side of the figure's face.

Description

  • A pixelated image shows a person with dark hair holding a small device near their face against a muted brown background.

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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person holding small device
  • blue screen device
  • muted brown background
  • pixelated figure
  • light-colored top
  • left-side lighting
  • compression artifacts
  • no text

Objects

  • small rectangular device

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains multiple era claims (2007, 2016) and collection hints (franksicons, 2007-2016)

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • compression artifacts

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • dark hair
  • small device
  • blue screen
  • light-colored top
  • muted brown background
  • no text
  • left-side lighting
  • compression artifacts
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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
200812032152311164986062
Archive entry
200812032152311164986062.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:45 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#200812032152311164986062.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200812032152311164986062.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016