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Black-and-white animation of a person with long hair holding a phone to their ear, transitioning from a side view to a front view.

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Black-and-white animation of a person with long hair holding a phone to their ear, transitioning from a side view to a front view.

Black-and-white animation of a person with long hair holding a phone to their ear, transitioning from a side view to a front view. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • head turns from side to front
  • eyes open from closed

Animation Summary

  • The animation shows a person turning their head from a side view to a front view while holding a phone to their ear.

Composition

  • profile view
  • front view
  • vertical shape on left
  • dark background

Dense Caption

Black-and-white animation shows a person with long hair holding a phone to their ear. In the first frame, the person is in profile view with eyes closed. In the second frame, the person turns to face forward with eyes open. The background includes a light-colored vertical shape on the left and a dark shape behind the person. The phone is held close to the ear in both frames. The image has a grainy, low-resolution quality typical of early 2000s digital media.

Description

  • Black-and-white animation of a person with long hair holding a phone to their ear, transitioning from a side view to a front view.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200908061819041954090371

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person holding phone turning head
  • black-and-white animation phone
  • grainy low-resolution phone animation
  • profile to front view phone animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • grainy texture
  • low-resolution

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

Wordwall

  • black-and-white
  • long hair
  • holding phone
  • eyes closed
  • eyes open
  • profile view
  • front view
  • grainy texture
  • low-resolution
  • vertical shape
  • dark background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200908061819041954090371
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:01 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/4f/4f83df56a670fdb0d45365590c6fdb4a62a431b2a386bc5daac399517216e189.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:01 UTC
Archive ID
4f83df56a670fdb0
SHA-256
4f83df56a670fdb0d45365590c6fdb4a62a431b2a386bc5daac399517216e189
Content-safety assessments (3)
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Assessed
August 19, 2026 at 16:02 UTC
Run
1315
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000854

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 24, 2026 at 08:06 UTC
Run
1179
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:20 UTC
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Overall label
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OpenAI category scores

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Black-and-white animation of a person with long hair holding a phone to their ear, transitioning from a side view to a front view.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 16:00 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,683 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 774

Review tags

  • holding phone (action, 0.80)
  • turning head (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • calm (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • phone (object, 0.80)
  • grainy (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • monochrome (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding phone
  • turning head

Animation

  • head turns from side to front
  • eyes open from closed

Animation Summary

  • The animation shows a person turning their head from a side view to a front view while holding a phone to their ear.

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • profile view
  • front view
  • vertical shape on left
  • dark background

Dense Caption

Black-and-white animation shows a person with long hair holding a phone to their ear. In the first frame, the person is in profile view with eyes closed. In the second frame, the person turns to face forward with eyes open. The background includes a light-colored vertical shape on the left and a dark shape behind the person. The phone is held close to the ear in both frames. The image has a grainy, low-resolution quality typical of early 2000s digital media.

Description

  • Black-and-white animation of a person with long hair holding a phone to their ear, transitioning from a side view to a front view.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200908061819041954090371

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral
  • calm

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person holding phone turning head
  • black-and-white animation phone
  • grainy low-resolution phone animation
  • profile to front view phone animation

Objects

  • phone

Preprocessing Notes

  • grainy texture
  • low-resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Style

  • grainy
  • low-resolution
  • monochrome

Subjects

  • person

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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
200908061819041954090371
Archive entry
200908061819041954090371.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:01 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#200908061819041954090371.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200908061819041954090371.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016