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A person in a black outfit holds a microphone, with a blue light visible in the background.

A person in a black outfit holds a microphone, with a blue light visible in the background. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons……

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • the person's expression changes from neutral to smiling

Animation Summary

  • The person's expression changes from neutral to smiling across the sections.

Composition

  • three sections
  • solid light gray background

Dense Caption

The image shows a person with short brown hair wearing a black outfit with a deep neckline. The person holds a black microphone close to their mouth. A small blue light appears in the upper left background. The image is divided into three sections: the top left and top right sections show the person with a neutral expression, while the bottom left section shows the person smiling. The bottom right section is a solid light gray color. The image has a pixelated appearance.

Description

  • A person in a black outfit holds a microphone, with a blue light visible in the 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20090314202441786660631

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person holding microphone
  • blue light background
  • smiling expression
  • pixelated image
  • black outfit
  • three section composition
  • light gray background
  • neutral expression

Preprocessing Notes

  • The image appears to be a composite of three sections, with the bottom right section being a solid color.

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

Wordwall

  • black outfit
  • microphone
  • blue light
  • short brown hair
  • neutral expression
  • smiling
  • pixelated
  • light gray background
  • deep neckline
  • three sections

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090314202441786660631
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:54 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/51/51193e08b9238e5f1d0e84290057af9bcb927c49295a9ca8521a259adc92fd9b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:54 UTC
Archive ID
51193e08b9238e5f
SHA-256
51193e08b9238e5f1d0e84290057af9bcb927c49295a9ca8521a259adc92fd9b
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:22 UTC
Run
1037
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.104938

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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A person in a black outfit holds a microphone, with a blue light visible in the background.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 02:53 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,058 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 816

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • microphone (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding
  • smiling

Animation

  • the person's expression changes from neutral to smiling

Animation Summary

  • The person's expression changes from neutral to smiling across the sections.

Colors

  • black
  • blue
  • brown
  • light gray

Composition

  • three sections
  • solid light gray background

Dense Caption

The image shows a person with short brown hair wearing a black outfit with a deep neckline. The person holds a black microphone close to their mouth. A small blue light appears in the upper left background. The image is divided into three sections: the top left and top right sections show the person with a neutral expression, while the bottom left section shows the person smiling. The bottom right section is a solid light gray color. The image has a pixelated appearance.

Description

  • A person in a black outfit holds a microphone, with a blue light visible in the 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20090314202441786660631

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral
  • smiling

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person holding microphone
  • blue light background
  • smiling expression
  • pixelated image
  • black outfit
  • three section composition
  • light gray background
  • neutral expression

Objects

  • microphone

Preprocessing Notes

  • The image appears to be a composite of three sections, with the bottom right section being a solid color.

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • 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

Style

  • pixelated

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • black outfit
  • microphone
  • blue light
  • short brown hair
  • neutral expression
  • smiling
  • pixelated
  • light gray background
  • deep neckline
  • three sections
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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
20090314202441786660631
Archive entry
20090314202441786660631.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:54 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#20090314202441786660631.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090314202441786660631.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016