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Pixelated image of a person in dark clothing holding a golden object against a gradient background.

Pixelated image of a person in dark clothing holding a golden object against a gradient background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…,…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • figure on left
  • gradient background
  • golden object centered

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated figure wearing dark clothing with a white collar. The figure holds a golden, cone-shaped object with horizontal bands. The background features a gradient from dark brown on the left to bright yellow on the right. The figure's face is partially visible with light brown hair. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person in dark clothing holding a golden object against a gradient 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 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200708122146262060681621

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated figure holding golden cone
  • dark clothing white collar
  • gradient background brown yellow
  • low-resolution blocky figure

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

Subjects

  • figure

Wordwall

  • pixelated figure
  • dark clothing
  • white collar
  • golden cone
  • horizontal bands
  • gradient background
  • brown to yellow
  • light brown hair
  • low-resolution
  • blocky appearance

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708122146262060681621
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/44/44c645a569d9458162d88f02b20267e7c3082308c74b9c0e55af85e8bd488290.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 UTC
Archive ID
44c645a569d94581
SHA-256
44c645a569d9458162d88f02b20267e7c3082308c74b9c0e55af85e8bd488290
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:55 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.077166

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated image of a person in dark clothing holding a golden object against a gradient background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 22:50 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,189 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,098, response 774

Review tags

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  • dark brown (color, 0.80)
  • golden (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • golden cone (object, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • figure (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding

Colors

  • dark brown
  • white
  • golden
  • yellow
  • light brown

Composition

  • figure on left
  • gradient background
  • golden object centered

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated figure wearing dark clothing with a white collar. The figure holds a golden, cone-shaped object with horizontal bands. The background features a gradient from dark brown on the left to bright yellow on the right. The figure's face is partially visible with light brown hair. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person in dark clothing holding a golden object against a gradient 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 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200708122146262060681621

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated figure holding golden cone
  • dark clothing white collar
  • gradient background brown yellow
  • low-resolution blocky figure

Objects

  • golden cone

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • 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
  • blocky

Subjects

  • figure

Wordwall

  • pixelated figure
  • dark clothing
  • white collar
  • golden cone
  • horizontal bands
  • gradient background
  • brown to yellow
  • light brown hair
  • low-resolution
  • blocky appearance
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 11:25 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
200708122146262060681621
Archive entry
200708122146262060681621.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 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#200708122146262060681621.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708122146262060681621.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016