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A person with curly brown hair wearing a red and white shirt smiles broadly in a of four with varying background details

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static
  • no motion

Animation Summary

  • The image is a static of four showing the same person with varying background details

Composition

  • four
  • consistent subject pose
  • varying background elements

Dense Caption

The image shows a person with curly brown hair and a red and white shirt. The person is smiling broadly. The background includes green and white areas. The image is divided into four panels. The top-left panel shows a green and white background. The top-right panel shows a green and white background with a blue and red element. The bottom-left panel shows a green and white background. The bottom-right panel is a solid gray color. The person's expression and pose are consistent across the panels.

Description

  • A person with curly brown hair wearing a red and white shirt smiles broadly in a of four with varying background details

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • 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
  • 200901251701332066845249

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • curly brown hair person
  • red and white shirt smiling
  • four
  • green white background
  • solid gray

Preprocessing Notes

  • grid layout indicates multiple observations of the same asset
  • quarantined description: A person with curly brown hair wearing a red and white shirt smiles broadly in a grid of four panels with varying background details.
  • quarantined animationSummary: The image is a static grid of four panels showing the same person with varying background details.
  • quarantined wordwall: solid gray panel
  • quarantined wordwall: four panels
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: four-panel grid
  • quarantined retrieval: solid gray panel
  • quarantined retrieval: four panel grid

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

Wordwall

  • curly brown hair
  • red and white shirt
  • broad smile
  • green background
  • white background
  • blue and red element
  • four
  • solid gray

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200901251701332066845249
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:50 UTC

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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/3f/3f57998de1cc2c548abc2678cf1d614bd877697f584b2f42ef79f40e3917d340.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:50 UTC
Archive ID
3f57998de1cc2c54
SHA-256
3f57998de1cc2c548abc2678cf1d614bd877697f584b2f42ef79f40e3917d340
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:49 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.085078

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.914922onnx/unsafe0.085078onnx/nsfl0.053258onnx/nsfw0.031820
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A person with curly brown hair wearing a red and white shirt smiles broadly in a of four with varying background details

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 20:05 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,430 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 804

Review tags

  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • shirt (object, 0.80)
  • static (other, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling

Animation

  • static
  • no motion

Animation Summary

  • The image is a static of four showing the same person with varying background details

Colors

  • brown
  • red
  • white
  • green
  • blue
  • gray

Composition

  • four
  • consistent subject pose
  • varying background elements

Dense Caption

The image shows a person with curly brown hair and a red and white shirt. The person is smiling broadly. The background includes green and white areas. The image is divided into four panels. The top-left panel shows a green and white background. The top-right panel shows a green and white background with a blue and red element. The bottom-left panel shows a green and white background. The bottom-right panel is a solid gray color. The person's expression and pose are consistent across the panels.

Description

  • A person with curly brown hair wearing a red and white shirt smiles broadly in a of four with varying background details

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • 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
  • 200901251701332066845249

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • happy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • curly brown hair person
  • red and white shirt smiling
  • four
  • green white background
  • solid gray

Objects

  • shirt

Preprocessing Notes

  • grid layout indicates multiple observations of the same asset
  • quarantined description: A person with curly brown hair wearing a red and white shirt smiles broadly in a grid of four panels with varying background details.
  • quarantined animationSummary: The image is a static grid of four panels showing the same person with varying background details.
  • quarantined wordwall: solid gray panel
  • quarantined wordwall: four panels
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: four-panel grid
  • quarantined retrieval: solid gray panel
  • quarantined retrieval: four panel grid

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

Style

  • pixelated

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • curly brown hair
  • red and white shirt
  • broad smile
  • green background
  • white background
  • blue and red element
  • four
  • solid gray
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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
200901251701332066845249
Archive entry
200901251701332066845249.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:50 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#200901251701332066845249.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200901251701332066845249.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016