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A pixelated close-up of a person's face with dark hair, wearing a white shirt and holding a microphone against a dark background.

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A pixelated close-up of a person's face with dark hair, wearing a white shirt and holding a microphone against a dark background.

A pixelated close-up of a person's face with dark hair, wearing a white shirt and holding a microphone against a dark background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fr…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered subject
  • top-left graphic element

Dense Caption

The image is a static 16x16 pixel icon. It shows the upper torso and head of a person with short dark hair. The individual has light skin, visible eyebrows, eyes, nose, mouth showing teeth in a smile, and small red marks on cheeks. They wear a white shirt collar. A black microphone with silver accents is held near the left side of the face. In the top-left corner, there's a blue triangular shape with a black outline. The background consists of dark pixels.

Description

  • A pixelated close-up of a person's face with dark hair, wearing a white shirt and holding a microphone against a dark 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200811021031192012529481
  • 20081102103204861300209

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Named Entities

  • celebrities

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person holding microphone smiling
  • blue triangle icon dark hair
  • white shirt collar red marks
  • pixelated celebrity icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • The image appears to be a cropped section of a larger photo, with visible pixelation and low resolution.

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

Visually Supported Entities

  • celebrities

Wordwall

  • 16x16 pixel icon
  • dark hair
  • light skin
  • white shirt collar
  • microphone
  • blue triangle
  • black outline
  • red marks on cheeks
  • smiling mouth

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200811021031192012529481
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081102103204861300209
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.9 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/3f/3f7617a681fcf76687f3634b4abb1921544d351187607d4a53d86a96cc6ba94a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 UTC
Archive ID
3f7617a681fcf766
SHA-256
3f7617a681fcf76687f3634b4abb1921544d351187607d4a53d86a96cc6ba94a
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:50 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.078262

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.921738onnx/unsafe0.078262onnx/nsfw0.045856onnx/nsfl0.032406
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A pixelated close-up of a person's face with dark hair, wearing a white shirt and holding a microphone against a dark background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 06:37 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,649 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,138, response 821

Review tags

  • holding microphone (action, 0.80)
  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • dark brown (color, 0.80)
  • light pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • microphone (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding microphone
  • smiling

Colors

  • dark brown
  • light pink
  • white
  • blue
  • black
  • silver

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered subject
  • top-left graphic element

Dense Caption

The image is a static 16x16 pixel icon. It shows the upper torso and head of a person with short dark hair. The individual has light skin, visible eyebrows, eyes, nose, mouth showing teeth in a smile, and small red marks on cheeks. They wear a white shirt collar. A black microphone with silver accents is held near the left side of the face. In the top-left corner, there's a blue triangular shape with a black outline. The background consists of dark pixels.

Description

  • A pixelated close-up of a person's face with dark hair, wearing a white shirt and holding a microphone against a dark 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200811021031192012529481
  • 20081102103204861300209

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Mood

  • happy

Named Entities

  • celebrities

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person holding microphone smiling
  • blue triangle icon dark hair
  • white shirt collar red marks
  • pixelated celebrity icon

Objects

  • microphone

Preprocessing Notes

  • The image appears to be a cropped section of a larger photo, with visible pixelation and low resolution.

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Visually Supported Entities

  • celebrities

Wordwall

  • 16x16 pixel icon
  • dark hair
  • light skin
  • white shirt collar
  • microphone
  • blue triangle
  • black outline
  • red marks on cheeks
  • smiling mouth
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Full source records (2)

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
200811021031192012529481
Archive entry
200811021031192012529481.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 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#200811021031192012529481.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200811021031192012529481.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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
20081102103204861300209
Archive entry
20081102103204861300209.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 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#20081102103204861300209.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081102103204861300209.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016