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A person with dark brown hair and a checkered headband smiles, wearing a light-colored shirt with a bow tie, against a yellow background.

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A person with dark brown hair and a checkered headband smiles, wearing a light-colored shirt with a bow tie, against a yellow background.

A person with dark brown hair and a checkered headband smiles, wearing a light-colored shirt with a bow tie, against a yellow background. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from In…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • mouth expression changes between quadrants

Animation Summary

  • The mouth expression changes slightly between the top-right quadrant and the other quadrants, showing a less open mouth in the top-right.

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • central subject
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The image shows a person with dark brown hair styled with bangs and side-swept strands, wearing a checkered headband with white and dark squares. The person has a light-colored shirt with a visible bow tie. The background is a solid yellow color. The image is divided into four quadrants, with the top-right quadrant showing a slightly different expression where the mouth is less open. The overall style is pixelated with a low-resolution appearance.

Description

  • A person with dark brown hair and a checkered headband smiles, wearing a light-colored shirt with a bow tie, against a yellow background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20090307103726878936650

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • dark brown hair checkered headband
  • yellow background pixelated
  • bow tie smiling person
  • four quadrants mouth expression change

Preprocessing Notes

  • image divided into four quadrants with slight variation in mouth expression

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Wordwall

  • dark brown hair
  • checkered headband
  • light-colored shirt
  • bow tie
  • yellow background
  • pixelated
  • four quadrants
  • slightly different mouth expression

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090307103726878936650
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
50×50 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/3d/3d1ff388ec1663d0c25cfcb8a49ea2f96bd0b118b8334eced2876b03d4c7ad99.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 UTC
Archive ID
3d1ff388ec1663d0
SHA-256
3d1ff388ec1663d0c25cfcb8a49ea2f96bd0b118b8334eced2876b03d4c7ad99
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 10, 2026 at 01:47 UTC
Run
1278
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.015962

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:47 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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A person with dark brown hair and a checkered headband smiles, wearing a light-colored shirt with a bow tie, against a yellow background.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 01:58 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,264 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 787

Review tags

  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • dark brown (color, 0.80)
  • light yellow (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • bow tie (object, 0.80)
  • headband (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling

Animation

  • mouth expression changes between quadrants

Animation Summary

  • The mouth expression changes slightly between the top-right quadrant and the other quadrants, showing a less open mouth in the top-right.

Colors

  • dark brown
  • white
  • black
  • light yellow
  • yellow

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • central subject
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The image shows a person with dark brown hair styled with bangs and side-swept strands, wearing a checkered headband with white and dark squares. The person has a light-colored shirt with a visible bow tie. The background is a solid yellow color. The image is divided into four quadrants, with the top-right quadrant showing a slightly different expression where the mouth is less open. The overall style is pixelated with a low-resolution appearance.

Description

  • A person with dark brown hair and a checkered headband smiles, wearing a light-colored shirt with a bow tie, against a yellow background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20090307103726878936650

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • happy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • dark brown hair checkered headband
  • yellow background pixelated
  • bow tie smiling person
  • four quadrants mouth expression change

Objects

  • headband
  • bow tie

Preprocessing Notes

  • image divided into four quadrants with slight variation in mouth expression

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • dark brown hair
  • checkered headband
  • light-colored shirt
  • bow tie
  • yellow background
  • pixelated
  • four quadrants
  • slightly different mouth expression
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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
20090307103726878936650
Archive entry
20090307103726878936650.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#20090307103726878936650.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090307103726878936650.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016