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A pixelated image of a person holding a phone to their ear, with repeated blue text and heart symbols overlaid on the right side.

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A pixelated image of a person holding a phone to their ear, with repeated blue text and heart symbols overlaid on the right side.

A pixelated image of a person holding a phone to their ear, with repeated blue text and heart symbols overlaid on the right side. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet A…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static image

Composition

  • person on left
  • text and symbols on right

Dense Caption

The image shows a person in a light-colored shirt holding a dark object (phone) to their left ear. The background is dark. On the right side, there are four vertical columns of pixelated blue text reading "Blake" stacked four times each, and three vertical columns of pixelated blue heart symbols with black centers. The image has low resolution and visible pixelation.

Description

  • A pixelated image of a person holding a phone to their ear, with repeated blue text and heart symbols overlaid on the right side.

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

  • person holding phone
  • blue text Blake
  • heart symbols with black centers
  • pixelated image
  • light shirt dark background

Visible Text

  • Blake

Visually Supported Entities

  • Blake

Wordwall

  • person
  • phone
  • light-colored shirt
  • dark background
  • blue text
  • "Blake"
  • four repetitions
  • heart symbols
  • black centers
  • pixelated

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709091503462025103790
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
3.8 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/34/3443714f2b0a63323de6bcd847d005dfc46cc7d80b8d7fd4f7f74e79db226cb6.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:44 UTC
Archive ID
3443714f2b0a6332
SHA-256
3443714f2b0a63323de6bcd847d005dfc46cc7d80b8d7fd4f7f74e79db226cb6
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:38 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.383118

OpenAI category scores

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A pixelated image of a person holding a phone to their ear, with repeated blue text and heart symbols overlaid on the right side.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 00:46 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,354 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,145, response 555

Review tags

  • holding phone to ear (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • dark (color, 0.80)
  • light colored (color, 0.80)
  • phone (object, 0.80)
  • static image (other, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding phone to ear

Animation

  • static image

Colors

  • blue
  • light-colored
  • dark
  • black

Composition

  • person on left
  • text and symbols on right

Dense Caption

The image shows a person in a light-colored shirt holding a dark object (phone) to their left ear. The background is dark. On the right side, there are four vertical columns of pixelated blue text reading "Blake" stacked four times each, and three vertical columns of pixelated blue heart symbols with black centers. The image has low resolution and visible pixelation.

Description

  • A pixelated image of a person holding a phone to their ear, with repeated blue text and heart symbols overlaid on the right side.

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

  • person holding phone
  • blue text Blake
  • heart symbols with black centers
  • pixelated image
  • light shirt dark background

Objects

  • phone

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • Blake

Visually Supported Entities

  • Blake

Wordwall

  • person
  • phone
  • light-colored shirt
  • dark background
  • blue text
  • "Blake"
  • four repetitions
  • heart symbols
  • black centers
  • pixelated
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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
200709091503462025103790
Archive entry
200709091503462025103790.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#200709091503462025103790.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709091503462025103790.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016