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A pixelated figure in a red outfit with white accents stands against a red background, holding a dark object near its face.

A pixelated figure in a red outfit with white accents stands against a red background, holding a dark object near its face. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • subtle brightness variation across frames

Animation Summary

  • The figure remains in a consistent pose with only minor brightness variations across frames.

Composition

  • centered figure
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The figure has a dark head covering and white shoulder details. The background is solid red. The figure's lower body is partially visible with a light-colored base. The image is pixelated with visible compression artifacts. The figure holds a dark, irregularly shaped object near its face. The object appears to be held in the right hand. The figure's posture is upright. The image shows slight variations in pixel brightness across three frames, indicating minimal animation.

Description

  • A pixelated figure in a red outfit with white accents stands against a red background, holding a dark object near its face.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background figure holding dark object
  • pixelated figure white shoulder details
  • minimal animation red background
  • dark head covering white accents

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be upscaled or cropped

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 topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Subjects

  • figure

Wordwall

  • red background
  • dark head covering
  • white shoulder details
  • light-colored base
  • pixelated
  • compression artifacts
  • dark object held near face
  • upright posture
  • minimal animation

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090215134429442684398
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.7 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/4d/4d32e5a293877bc2cb08e5ec14871779cb788b91171820be88b20278407f2b43.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 UTC
Archive ID
4d32e5a293877bc2
SHA-256
4d32e5a293877bc2cb08e5ec14871779cb788b91171820be88b20278407f2b43
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:17 UTC
Run
1034
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.085486

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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A pixelated figure in a red outfit with white accents stands against a red background, holding a dark object near its face.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 23:08 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,917 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 743

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • dark (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • dark object (object, 0.80)
  • subtle brightness variation across frames (other, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • figure (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding

Animation

  • subtle brightness variation across frames

Animation Summary

  • The figure remains in a consistent pose with only minor brightness variations across frames.

Colors

  • red
  • white
  • dark

Composition

  • centered figure
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The figure has a dark head covering and white shoulder details. The background is solid red. The figure's lower body is partially visible with a light-colored base. The image is pixelated with visible compression artifacts. The figure holds a dark, irregularly shaped object near its face. The object appears to be held in the right hand. The figure's posture is upright. The image shows slight variations in pixel brightness across three frames, indicating minimal animation.

Description

  • A pixelated figure in a red outfit with white accents stands against a red background, holding a dark object near its face.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background figure holding dark object
  • pixelated figure white shoulder details
  • minimal animation red background
  • dark head covering white accents

Objects

  • dark object

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be upscaled or cropped

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 topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • figure

Wordwall

  • red background
  • dark head covering
  • white shoulder details
  • light-colored base
  • pixelated
  • compression artifacts
  • dark object held near face
  • upright posture
  • minimal animation
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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
20090215134429442684398
Archive entry
20090215134429442684398.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#20090215134429442684398.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090215134429442684398.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016