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Pixelated static image of a figure in dark blue and brown tones with light blue highlights, set against a muted gray background.

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Pixelated static image of a figure in dark blue and brown tones with light blue highlights, set against a muted gray background.

Pixelated static image of a figure in dark blue and brown tones with light blue highlights, set against a muted gray background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fra…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered figure
  • muted gray background

Dense Caption

The image is a low-resolution static icon with heavy pixelation. It features a figure with a dark blue upper body and brown lower body, including a light blue circular highlight on the upper body. The figure has a white circular highlight on the lower body. The background is a muted gray with subtle darker and lighter pixel variations. No distinct facial features, clothing details, or text are visible. The overall composition is centered with the figure occupying the left and central portions of the frame.

Description

  • Pixelated static image of a figure in dark blue and brown tones with light blue highlights, set against a muted gray 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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 201001261542121391936382

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated figure dark blue brown
  • muted gray background low resolution
  • light blue white highlights
  • centered composition

Preprocessing Notes

  • image is heavily pixelated

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

Subjects

  • figure

Wordwall

  • pixelated static icon
  • dark blue upper body
  • brown lower body
  • light blue circular highlight
  • white circular highlight
  • muted gray background
  • centered composition
  • low-resolution
  • no visible text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
201001261542121391936382
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:05 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/35/3516f7339e267adacd27765ccfa096e8e49dd7bed45c323bc07cba4efd79e198.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:05 UTC
Archive ID
3516f7339e267ada
SHA-256
3516f7339e267adacd27765ccfa096e8e49dd7bed45c323bc07cba4efd79e198
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 26, 2026 at 16:43 UTC
Run
1349
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000497

OpenAI category scores

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 30, 2026 at 09:23 UTC
Run
1249
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.021699

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.021699falseself-harm0.014623falseviolence/graphic0.002384falsesexual0.000755falseself-harm/intent0.000288falseself-harm/instructions0.000216falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:39 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.482484

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated static image of a figure in dark blue and brown tones with light blue highlights, set against a muted gray background.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 16:39 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,196 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,087, response 784

Review tags

  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • muted gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • figure (subject, 0.80)

Colors

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

Composition

  • centered figure
  • muted gray background

Dense Caption

The image is a low-resolution static icon with heavy pixelation. It features a figure with a dark blue upper body and brown lower body, including a light blue circular highlight on the upper body. The figure has a white circular highlight on the lower body. The background is a muted gray with subtle darker and lighter pixel variations. No distinct facial features, clothing details, or text are visible. The overall composition is centered with the figure occupying the left and central portions of the frame.

Description

  • Pixelated static image of a figure in dark blue and brown tones with light blue highlights, set against a muted gray 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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 201001261542121391936382

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated figure dark blue brown
  • muted gray background low resolution
  • light blue white highlights
  • centered composition

Preprocessing Notes

  • image is heavily pixelated

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • figure

Wordwall

  • pixelated static icon
  • dark blue upper body
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  • light blue circular highlight
  • white circular highlight
  • muted gray background
  • centered composition
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 22:03 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
201001261542121391936382
Archive entry
201001261542121391936382.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:05 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#201001261542121391936382.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#201001261542121391936382.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016