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Pixelated image of a person with dark hair wearing a white shirt, hand near neck, against a light background.

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Pixelated image of a person with dark hair wearing a white shirt, hand near neck, against a light background.

Pixelated image of a person with dark hair wearing a white shirt, hand near neck, against a light background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bud…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • upper body
  • centered subject
  • beige background

Dense Caption

Pixelated image shows a person with dark hair, brown skin tone, and a white shirt. The person's right hand is positioned near the neck. Background is a light beige color. Image has low resolution with visible pixelation. No text or additional objects are present. The person's expression appears neutral. The image is cropped to show the upper body and head.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with dark hair wearing a white shirt, hand near neck, against a light background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20081108162357148326196

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person dark hair white shirt
  • hand near neck beige background
  • pixelated neutral expression
  • beige background white shirt

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled

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

  • dark hair
  • white shirt
  • hand near neck
  • beige background
  • low resolution
  • neutral expression
  • upper body
  • brown skin tone
  • pixelated

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081108162357148326196
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
2.4 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/43/434f79dad540e4643834538e6e6a62a5e322e267bea8062390017e802db56e54.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 UTC
Archive ID
434f79dad540e464
SHA-256
434f79dad540e4643834538e6e6a62a5e322e267bea8062390017e802db56e54
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 18, 2026 at 08:02 UTC
Run
1312
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000859

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 28, 2026 at 18:30 UTC
Run
1210
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001212

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.001212falseself-harm0.000579falseself-harm/intent0.000225falsesexual0.000157falseviolence/graphic0.000020falseself-harm/instructions0.000003falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:54 UTC
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107
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Overall label
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Overall score
0.585341

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image of a person with dark hair wearing a white shirt, hand near neck, against a light background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 07:46 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,727 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,094, response 719

Review tags

  • hand near neck (action, 0.80)
  • beige (color, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • hand near neck

Colors

  • beige
  • white
  • brown
  • black

Composition

  • upper body
  • centered subject
  • beige background

Dense Caption

Pixelated image shows a person with dark hair, brown skin tone, and a white shirt. The person's right hand is positioned near the neck. Background is a light beige color. Image has low resolution with visible pixelation. No text or additional objects are present. The person's expression appears neutral. The image is cropped to show the upper body and head.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with dark hair wearing a white shirt, hand near neck, against a light background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20081108162357148326196

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person dark hair white shirt
  • hand near neck beige background
  • pixelated neutral expression
  • beige background white shirt

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled

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
  • low resolution

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • dark hair
  • white shirt
  • hand near neck
  • beige background
  • low resolution
  • neutral expression
  • upper body
  • brown skin tone
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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
20081108162357148326196
Archive entry
20081108162357148326196.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#20081108162357148326196.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081108162357148326196.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016