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A person wearing a black hat with a blue and white checkered emblem, dark clothing, and a light-colored background with a blurred figure behind.

A person wearing a black hat with a blue and white checkered emblem, dark clothing, and a light-colored background with a blurred figure behind. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon…

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Source terms

Composition

  • centered subject
  • blurred background

Dense Caption

The image shows a person wearing a black hat with a blue and white checkered emblem on the front. The person has dark hair and is wearing dark clothing. The background is a light brown color with a blurred figure behind the person. The image appears to be a static frame from an animation, with no visible motion changes. The person's face is partially visible, showing a neutral expression. The image has a pixelated quality, typical of low-resolution digital images from the early 2000s.

Description

A person wearing a black hat with a blue and white checkered emblem, dark clothing, and a light-colored background with a blurred figure behind.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200902221149411049596500
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • black hat blue emblem
  • dark clothing light background
  • pixelated neutral face
  • blurred figure background

Wordwall

  • black hat
  • blue and white checkered emblem
  • dark clothing
  • light brown background
  • blurred figure
  • pixelated quality
  • neutral expression
  • partially visible face

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200902221149411049596500
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/41/413e832821c558825d5c9d954b00f4d02e42023e7854aefa9bf15b896cc79d43.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 UTC
Archive ID
413e832821c55882
SHA-256
413e832821c558825d5c9d954b00f4d02e42023e7854aefa9bf15b896cc79d43
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:51 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.087847

OpenAI category scores

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A person wearing a black hat with a blue and white checkered emblem, dark clothing, and a light-colored background with a blurred figure behind.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 00:12 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,611 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,115, response 686

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • emblem (object, 0.80)
  • hat (object, 0.80)
  • digital (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • blue
  • white
  • brown
  • dark

Composition

  • centered subject
  • blurred background

Dense Caption

The image shows a person wearing a black hat with a blue and white checkered emblem on the front. The person has dark hair and is wearing dark clothing. The background is a light brown color with a blurred figure behind the person. The image appears to be a static frame from an animation, with no visible motion changes. The person's face is partially visible, showing a neutral expression. The image has a pixelated quality, typical of low-resolution digital images from the early 2000s.

Description

A person wearing a black hat with a blue and white checkered emblem, dark clothing, and a light-colored background with a blurred figure behind.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200902221149411049596500
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • black hat blue emblem
  • dark clothing light background
  • pixelated neutral face
  • blurred figure background

Objects

  • hat
  • emblem

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • digital

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • black hat
  • blue and white checkered emblem
  • dark clothing
  • light brown background
  • blurred figure
  • pixelated quality
  • neutral expression
  • partially visible face
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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
200902221149411049596500
Archive entry
200902221149411049596500.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 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#200902221149411049596500.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200902221149411049596500.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016