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Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair wearing dark clothing, holding an object against a dark background.

Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair wearing dark clothing, holding an object against a dark background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sh…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • upper body focus

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated figure with light brown hair and fair skin. The figure wears dark gray or black clothing and holds a long, thin, metallic-looking object in their right hand. The left hand is positioned below the right hand. The background consists of dark tones with subtle blue-gray patches. Pixelation obscures fine details but suggests a close-up composition focusing on the upper body.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair wearing dark clothing, holding an object against a dark 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: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • light brown hair person holding metallic object
  • pixelated figure fair skin dark clothing

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution from original 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

  • light brown hair
  • fair skin
  • dark clothing
  • metallic object
  • pixelated image
  • close-up composition
  • dark background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709131200181109369450
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:44 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/33/33af5053c08f471ac3e2c39389fb66ecffe9c15b1f03ee5642bb76b63af3e0bf.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:44 UTC
Archive ID
33af5053c08f471a
SHA-256
33af5053c08f471ac3e2c39389fb66ecffe9c15b1f03ee5642bb76b63af3e0bf
Content-safety assessments (3)
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Assessed
July 28, 2026 at 01:42 UTC
Run
1201
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000719

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July 27, 2026 at 08:52 UTC
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1196
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Overall score
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July 23, 2026 at 07:37 UTC
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Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair wearing dark clothing, holding an object against a dark background.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 01:39 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,916 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,090, response 582

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • positioning (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue gray (color, 0.80)
  • dark gray (color, 0.80)
  • fair skin tone (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • metallic object (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding
  • positioning

Colors

  • light brown
  • fair skin tone
  • dark gray
  • black
  • blue-gray

Composition

  • close-up
  • upper body focus

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated figure with light brown hair and fair skin. The figure wears dark gray or black clothing and holds a long, thin, metallic-looking object in their right hand. The left hand is positioned below the right hand. The background consists of dark tones with subtle blue-gray patches. Pixelation obscures fine details but suggests a close-up composition focusing on the upper body.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair wearing dark clothing, holding an object against a dark 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: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • light brown hair person holding metallic object
  • pixelated figure fair skin dark clothing

Objects

  • metallic object

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution from original 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

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • light brown hair
  • fair skin
  • dark clothing
  • metallic object
  • pixelated image
  • close-up composition
  • dark background
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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
200709131200181109369450
Archive entry
200709131200181109369450.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:44 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#200709131200181109369450.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709131200181109369450.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016