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A pixelated image shows a figure in blue pants and red shoes holding a balloon, with '2.28.09' text below on a reddish background.

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A pixelated image shows a figure in blue pants and red shoes holding a balloon, with '2.28.09' text below on a reddish background.

A pixelated image shows a figure in blue pants and red shoes holding a balloon, with '2.28.09' text below on a reddish background. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central figure
  • text below figure

Dense Caption

The icon displays a low-resolution, pixelated scene featuring a figure wearing light-colored boots with red tops and blue pants standing against a solid reddish-brown background. The figure holds a large light-blue balloon above their head. Below the figure, white blocky text reads '2.28.09' on a dark strip. The image has visible pixelation typical of early 2000s digital graphics.

Description

  • A pixelated image shows a figure in blue pants and red shoes holding a balloon, with '2.28.09' text below on a reddish 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
  • 200912210825561605582421

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • figure blue pants red boots balloon 2.28.09
  • pixelated icon reddish-brown background

Subjects

  • figure

Visible Text

  • 2.28.09

Wordwall

  • figure
  • blue pants
  • red boots
  • light blue balloon
  • reddish-brown background
  • 2.28.09 text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200912210825561605582421
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
5.6 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/38/383a6a30f3410be278fd10a531f03f80a2d0f58cb082677c025924fa07b76247.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 UTC
Archive ID
383a6a30f3410be2
SHA-256
383a6a30f3410be278fd10a531f03f80a2d0f58cb082677c025924fa07b76247
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:42 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.100059

OpenAI category scores

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A pixelated image shows a figure in blue pants and red shoes holding a balloon, with '2.28.09' text below on a reddish background.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 21:32 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,791 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,115, response 625

Review tags

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  • dark strip (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • reddish brown (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • balloon (object, 0.80)
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  • figure (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding

Colors

  • blue
  • red
  • light blue
  • reddish-brown
  • white
  • dark strip

Composition

  • central figure
  • text below figure

Dense Caption

The icon displays a low-resolution, pixelated scene featuring a figure wearing light-colored boots with red tops and blue pants standing against a solid reddish-brown background. The figure holds a large light-blue balloon above their head. Below the figure, white blocky text reads '2.28.09' on a dark strip. The image has visible pixelation typical of early 2000s digital graphics.

Description

  • A pixelated image shows a figure in blue pants and red shoes holding a balloon, with '2.28.09' text below on a reddish 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
  • 200912210825561605582421

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • figure blue pants red boots balloon 2.28.09
  • pixelated icon reddish-brown background

Objects

  • balloon

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky text

Subjects

  • figure

Visible Text

  • 2.28.09

Wordwall

  • figure
  • blue pants
  • red boots
  • light blue balloon
  • reddish-brown background
  • 2.28.09 text
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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
200912210825561605582421
Archive entry
200912210825561605582421.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 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#200912210825561605582421.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200912210825561605582421.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016