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A person in a dark blue turtleneck makes a peace sign with their right hand, positioned near their mouth, against a blurred indoor background.

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A person in a dark blue turtleneck makes a peace sign with their right hand, positioned near their mouth, against a blurred indoor background.

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • one frame shows grayed-out right section

Animation Summary

  • The rightmost section of the frame is grayed out in one view, indicating a cropped or modified version of the same image.

Composition

  • centered subject
  • close-up
  • cropped right side

Dense Caption

The image shows a person wearing a dark blue turtleneck sweater. The person's right hand is raised near their mouth, forming a peace sign with the index and middle fingers extended. The background is blurred, showing indistinct shapes and colors suggesting an indoor setting with warm lighting. The image has a pixelated appearance typical of low-resolution digital photos. The person's expression appears neutral. The image is part of a sequence where the rightmost section of the frame is grayed out in one view, indicating a cropped or modified version.

Description

A person in a dark blue turtleneck makes a peace sign with their right hand, positioned near their mouth, against a blurred indoor 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 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.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20081114145056862337569

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person dark blue turtleneck peace sign
  • peace sign mouth hand
  • grayed-out section pixelated
  • indoor setting neutral expression

Preprocessing Notes

  • grayed-out section in one frame

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 blue turtleneck
  • peace sign
  • right hand
  • mouth
  • blurred background
  • indoor setting
  • pixelated
  • neutral expression
  • grayed-out section

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081114145056862337569
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/32/32a8e190c42d6b0009869270faaf4dcd8d9e22233efdbf054dc52ecd71038d17.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC
Archive ID
32a8e190c42d6b00
SHA-256
32a8e190c42d6b0009869270faaf4dcd8d9e22233efdbf054dc52ecd71038d17
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 2, 2026 at 10:37 UTC
Run
1254
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.010185

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:36 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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A person in a dark blue turtleneck makes a peace sign with their right hand, positioned near their mouth, against a blurred indoor background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 08:46 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,786 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 863

Review tags

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  • making peace sign (action, 0.80)
  • beige (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • turtleneck sweater (object, 0.80)
  • blurred background (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • making peace sign
  • holding hand near mouth

Animation

  • one frame shows grayed-out right section

Animation Summary

  • The rightmost section of the frame is grayed out in one view, indicating a cropped or modified version of the same image.

Colors

  • dark blue
  • gray
  • brown
  • beige
  • white

Composition

  • centered subject
  • close-up
  • cropped right side

Dense Caption

The image shows a person wearing a dark blue turtleneck sweater. The person's right hand is raised near their mouth, forming a peace sign with the index and middle fingers extended. The background is blurred, showing indistinct shapes and colors suggesting an indoor setting with warm lighting. The image has a pixelated appearance typical of low-resolution digital photos. The person's expression appears neutral. The image is part of a sequence where the rightmost section of the frame is grayed out in one view, indicating a cropped or modified version.

Description

A person in a dark blue turtleneck makes a peace sign with their right hand, positioned near their mouth, against a blurred indoor 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 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.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20081114145056862337569

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person dark blue turtleneck peace sign
  • peace sign mouth hand
  • grayed-out section pixelated
  • indoor setting neutral expression

Objects

  • turtleneck sweater

Preprocessing Notes

  • grayed-out section in one frame

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blurred background

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • dark blue turtleneck
  • peace sign
  • right hand
  • mouth
  • blurred background
  • indoor setting
  • pixelated
  • neutral expression
  • grayed-out section
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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
20081114145056862337569
Archive entry
20081114145056862337569.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 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#20081114145056862337569.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081114145056862337569.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016