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A pixelated static image shows a person in dark clothing holding a long object against a light blue background.

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A pixelated static image shows a person in dark clothing holding a long object against a light blue background.

A pixelated static image shows a person in dark clothing holding a long object against a light blue background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared B…

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Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • figure against solid background

Dense Caption

The image is highly pixelated. A figure wearing dark clothing and a cap holds a long, thin object with brown and pink sections. The figure's pose suggests movement or action. The background is solid light blue. No text is visible in the pixels. Colors include shades of black, gray, brown, pink, and light blue.

Description

  • A pixelated static image shows a person in dark clothing holding a long object against a light blue 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200711101529321053892117

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person holding long object
  • dark clothing light blue background
  • brown pink object pixel art

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • dark clothing
  • cap
  • long thin object
  • brown section
  • pink section
  • light blue background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200711101529321053892117
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:54 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/35/3585eeaf6c979b53851b648961721cb5750c55fe7cacfdcdabc95de71d539212.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:54 UTC
Archive ID
3585eeaf6c979b53
SHA-256
3585eeaf6c979b53851b648961721cb5750c55fe7cacfdcdabc95de71d539212
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
July 29, 2026 at 08:42 UTC
Run
1245
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001274

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:39 UTC
Run
107
Input
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Overall label
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Overall score
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A pixelated static image shows a person in dark clothing holding a long object against a light blue background.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 16:55 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,977 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,089, response 567

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • posing (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • long thin object (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding
  • posing

Colors

  • black
  • gray
  • brown
  • pink
  • light blue

Composition

  • figure against solid background

Dense Caption

The image is highly pixelated. A figure wearing dark clothing and a cap holds a long, thin object with brown and pink sections. The figure's pose suggests movement or action. The background is solid light blue. No text is visible in the pixels. Colors include shades of black, gray, brown, pink, and light blue.

Description

  • A pixelated static image shows a person in dark clothing holding a long object against a light blue 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200711101529321053892117

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person holding long object
  • dark clothing light blue background
  • brown pink object pixel art

Objects

  • long thin object

Style

  • pixelated

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • dark clothing
  • cap
  • long thin object
  • brown section
  • pink section
  • light blue 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
200711101529321053892117
Archive entry
200711101529321053892117.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:54 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#200711101529321053892117.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200711101529321053892117.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016