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A pixelated image of a person with dark hair wearing a colorful striped sleeveless top, holding an object near their face against a red background.

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A pixelated image of a person with dark hair wearing a colorful striped sleeveless top, holding an object near their face against a red background.

A pixelated image of a person with dark hair wearing a colorful striped sleeveless top, holding an object near their face against a red background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy ic…

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Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static image with no visible motion changes across observations

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered figure
  • solid background
  • partial overlay in bottom-right

Dense Caption

The icon shows a close-up of a figure with dark hair and light skin. The figure wears a sleeveless garment with horizontal stripes in blue, yellow, green, and white. A hand holds a small object near the mouth area. The background is solid red. Pixelation obscures fine details. In the bottom-right quadrant, there is a large gray rectangular overlay covering part of the image.

Description

A pixelated image of a person with dark hair wearing a colorful striped sleeveless top, holding an object near their face against a red background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation file-name (gallery): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • observation title (gallery): 200903031751551060906427
  • observation file-name (gallery): 200903031751551060906427

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200903031751551060906427

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person striped top red background
  • pixelated figure hand near face
  • gray rectangle overlay
  • blue yellow green white stripes

Preprocessing Notes

  • gray rectangle appears to be a post-processing artifact or intentional overlay, not part of the original icon design.

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

Wordwall

  • dark hair
  • light skin
  • striped sleeveless top
  • blue yellow green white stripes
  • hand near face
  • red background
  • pixelated
  • gray rectangle

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200903031751551060906427
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/37/37227b6326968cd375db4ee6008256e6f9a4e5683b447e0876fee768e7672d33.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 UTC
Archive ID
37227b6326968cd3
SHA-256
37227b6326968cd375db4ee6008256e6f9a4e5683b447e0876fee768e7672d33
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 29, 2026 at 01:08 UTC
Run
15963
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000486

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.000486falsesexual0.000050falseviolence/graphic0.000024falseharassment0.000017falseself-harm0.000013falseillicit0.000013falsehate0.000004falseself-harm/intent0.000003falseillicit/violent0.000003falseharassment/threatening0.000002falseself-harm/instructions0.000001falsesexual/minors0.000001falsehate/threatening0.000000false
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 4, 2026 at 17:15 UTC
Run
1266
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.016023

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.016023falsesexual0.002757falseviolence/graphic0.001588falseself-harm0.000544falseself-harm/intent0.000218falseself-harm/instructions0.000004falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:41 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.291757

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.708243onnx/unsafe0.291757onnx/nsfw0.248756onnx/nsfl0.043002
Enrichment records (1)
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A pixelated image of a person with dark hair wearing a colorful striped sleeveless top, holding an object near their face against a red background.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 01:34 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,230 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 802

Review tags

  • holding object near face (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • small object (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • vibrant colors (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding object near face

Animation

  • static image with no visible motion changes across observations

Colors

  • red
  • black
  • blue
  • yellow
  • green
  • white
  • light skin tone
  • gray

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered figure
  • solid background
  • partial overlay in bottom-right

Dense Caption

The icon shows a close-up of a figure with dark hair and light skin. The figure wears a sleeveless garment with horizontal stripes in blue, yellow, green, and white. A hand holds a small object near the mouth area. The background is solid red. Pixelation obscures fine details. In the bottom-right quadrant, there is a large gray rectangular overlay covering part of the image.

Description

A pixelated image of a person with dark hair wearing a colorful striped sleeveless top, holding an object near their face against a red background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation file-name (gallery): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • observation title (gallery): 200903031751551060906427
  • observation file-name (gallery): 200903031751551060906427

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200903031751551060906427

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person striped top red background
  • pixelated figure hand near face
  • gray rectangle overlay
  • blue yellow green white stripes

Objects

  • small object

Preprocessing Notes

  • gray rectangle appears to be a post-processing artifact or intentional overlay, not part of the original icon design.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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
  • vibrant colors

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • dark hair
  • light skin
  • striped sleeveless top
  • blue yellow green white stripes
  • hand near face
  • red background
  • pixelated
  • gray rectangle
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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
200903031751551060906427
Archive entry
200903031751551060906427.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 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#200903031751551060906427.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200903031751551060906427.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016