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Pixelated image of a person in dark clothing holding a microphone against a dark background with scattered light spots.

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Pixelated image of a person in dark clothing holding a microphone against a dark background with scattered light spots.

Pixelated image of a person in dark clothing holding a microphone against a dark background with scattered light spots. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered subject
  • dark background
  • scattered light spots

Dense Caption

Pixelated image of a person with dark skin tone wearing a dark blue jacket over a white shirt with a large dark graphic. The person holds a silver microphone in their right hand and has their left arm raised. The background is dark with scattered light spots including a bright orange spot in the upper right and a green spot near the right side. The image has low resolution and visible pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person in dark clothing holding a microphone against a dark background with scattered light spots.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 200802271208281261668941

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person holding microphone
  • dark blue jacket white shirt
  • scattered light spots background
  • pixelated image microphone

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled

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

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  • dark background
  • scattered light spots
  • silver microphone
  • dark blue jacket
  • white shirt
  • large dark graphic
  • left arm raised
  • right hand holding
  • pixelated image
  • dark skin tone

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200802271208281261668941
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.1 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/35/357a0e155aa01169b0dde60c189c0a699eee9c57993733a7a89ca9f9f693f442.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 UTC
Archive ID
357a0e155aa01169
SHA-256
357a0e155aa01169b0dde60c189c0a699eee9c57993733a7a89ca9f9f693f442
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 26, 2026 at 13:20 UTC
Run
1349
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000020

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagharassment0.000020falseviolence0.000017falsesexual0.000011falseself-harm0.000009falseillicit0.000007falseviolence/graphic0.000007falsehate0.000004falseself-harm/intent0.000002falseharassment/threatening0.000002falseillicit/violent0.000001falseself-harm/instructions0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000false

Qwen scheduling evidence

Evidence strength is retained for queueing and audit. It does not set the public content-safety verdict.

EvidenceStrengthInputenrichment/visual/violence0.500000image
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
0.078808

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.921192onnx/unsafe0.078808onnx/nsfl0.041796onnx/nsfw0.037013
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated image of a person in dark clothing holding a microphone against a dark background with scattered light spots.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 13:15 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,093 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,094, response 678

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • raised (action, 0.80)
  • dark (color, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • silver (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • microphone (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding
  • raised

Colors

  • dark blue
  • white
  • silver
  • dark
  • orange
  • green

Composition

  • centered subject
  • dark background
  • scattered light spots

Dense Caption

Pixelated image of a person with dark skin tone wearing a dark blue jacket over a white shirt with a large dark graphic. The person holds a silver microphone in their right hand and has their left arm raised. The background is dark with scattered light spots including a bright orange spot in the upper right and a green spot near the right side. The image has low resolution and visible pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person in dark clothing holding a microphone against a dark background with scattered light spots.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 200802271208281261668941

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person holding microphone
  • dark blue jacket white shirt
  • scattered light spots background
  • pixelated image microphone

Objects

  • microphone

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low resolution

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • dark background
  • scattered light spots
  • silver microphone
  • dark blue jacket
  • white shirt
  • large dark graphic
  • left arm raised
  • right hand holding
  • pixelated image
  • dark skin tone
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 04:18 UTC
Run
56
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
200802271208281261668941
Archive entry
200802271208281261668941.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 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#200802271208281261668941.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200802271208281261668941.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016