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A person holds a flag with blue, white, and red stripes and a central emblem, positioned against a blurred background.

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static

Animation Summary

  • Static image with no visible motion changes.

Composition

  • person holding flag
  • central emblem
  • horizontal stripes

Dense Caption

A person with dark hair holds a flag featuring horizontal blue, white, and red stripes with a central emblem. The flag's blue stripe is on the top and bottom, white in the middle. The emblem consists of a yellow circle with a blue design inside. The background is blurred and gray-toned. The person's face is partially visible, showing a neutral expression. The image has a pixelated appearance.

Description

  • A person holds a flag with blue, white, and red stripes and a central emblem, positioned against a blurred 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 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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person holding flag
  • blue white red flag
  • central emblem flag
  • yellow circle blue design
  • pixelated flag image
  • neutral expression flag
  • gray background flag
  • horizontal stripes flag

Objects

  • flag

Subjects

  • flag

Wordwall

  • flag
  • blue
  • white
  • red
  • emblem
  • yellow
  • blue design
  • pixelated
  • blurred background
  • dark hair
  • neutral expression
  • horizontal stripes
  • central emblem
  • person holding flag
  • gray background
  • yellow circle
  • blue design inside circle
  • hair dark
  • face partially visible
  • expression neutral

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200807041201301067406842
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/46/464b0de94d6623536ae19382c3b885fdaa000f5d4326256cdafafc7d9b72858f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 UTC
Archive ID
464b0de94d662353
SHA-256
464b0de94d6623536ae19382c3b885fdaa000f5d4326256cdafafc7d9b72858f
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:57 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.120925

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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A person holds a flag with blue, white, and red stripes and a central emblem, positioned against a blurred background.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 10:33 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,348 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 699

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • static (other, 0.80)
  • blurred background (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • flag (subject, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding

Animation

  • static

Animation Summary

  • Static image with no visible motion changes.

Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • red
  • yellow
  • gray

Composition

  • person holding flag
  • central emblem
  • horizontal stripes

Dense Caption

A person with dark hair holds a flag featuring horizontal blue, white, and red stripes with a central emblem. The flag's blue stripe is on the top and bottom, white in the middle. The emblem consists of a yellow circle with a blue design inside. The background is blurred and gray-toned. The person's face is partially visible, showing a neutral expression. The image has a pixelated appearance.

Description

  • A person holds a flag with blue, white, and red stripes and a central emblem, positioned against a blurred 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 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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Mood

  • neutral

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  • blue white red flag
  • central emblem flag
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  • pixelated flag image
  • neutral expression flag
  • gray background flag
  • horizontal stripes flag

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  • flag

Style

  • pixelated
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Subjects

  • person
  • flag

Wordwall

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  • white
  • red
  • emblem
  • yellow
  • blue design
  • pixelated
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  • dark hair
  • neutral expression
  • horizontal stripes
  • central emblem
  • person holding flag
  • gray background
  • yellow circle
  • blue design inside circle
  • hair dark
  • face partially visible
  • expression neutral
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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
200807041201301067406842
Archive entry
200807041201301067406842.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 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#200807041201301067406842.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200807041201301067406842.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016