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Pixelated grayscale image of a stylized figure with raised arm against dark background, rendered in low-resolution digital art style.

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Pixelated grayscale image of a stylized figure with raised arm against dark background, rendered in low-resolution digital art style.

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Depicts

Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Actions

  • raising arm

Composition

  • partial figure view
  • left-side composition
  • dark background contrast

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixelated static icon shows partial view of stylized humanoid figure on left side; visible elements include upper torso and extended right arm pointing upward. Figure has smooth light gray surface with subtle shading gradients. Background is solid black. Image exhibits heavy pixelation typical of early 2000s digital art, with no discernible facial features or clothing details. Composition centers on the raised arm gesture against dark backdrop.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale image of a stylized figure with raised arm against dark background, rendered in low-resolution digital art style.

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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200709181952561904033784

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixelated figure raised arm
  • low-resolution grayscale icon dark background
  • stylized figure partial view black background

Subjects

  • figure

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • stylized figure
  • raised arm
  • dark background
  • no facial features
  • smooth surface

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709181952561904033784
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:46 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.7 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/49/49870a207e3a8adfaef457399553ccd3f67f3e28047ac2f80688991f23c9793f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:46 UTC
Archive ID
49870a207e3a8adf
SHA-256
49870a207e3a8adfaef457399553ccd3f67f3e28047ac2f80688991f23c9793f
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:04 UTC
Run
1031
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.080316

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated grayscale image of a stylized figure with raised arm against dark background, rendered in low-resolution digital art style.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 02:59 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,652 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,094, response 619

Review tags

  • raising arm (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution digital art (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • figure (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • raising arm

Colors

  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • partial figure view
  • left-side composition
  • dark background contrast

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixelated static icon shows partial view of stylized humanoid figure on left side; visible elements include upper torso and extended right arm pointing upward. Figure has smooth light gray surface with subtle shading gradients. Background is solid black. Image exhibits heavy pixelation typical of early 2000s digital art, with no discernible facial features or clothing details. Composition centers on the raised arm gesture against dark backdrop.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale image of a stylized figure with raised arm against dark background, rendered in low-resolution digital art style.

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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200709181952561904033784

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixelated figure raised arm
  • low-resolution grayscale icon dark background
  • stylized figure partial view black background

Style

  • pixelated
  • grayscale
  • low-resolution digital art

Subjects

  • figure

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • stylized figure
  • raised arm
  • dark background
  • no facial features
  • smooth surface
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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
200709181952561904033784
Archive entry
200709181952561904033784.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:46 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#200709181952561904033784.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709181952561904033784.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016