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Pixelated static image of a figure in a dark top and light blue sleeve, positioned against a beige background with brown and blue accents.

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Pixelated static image of a figure in a dark top and light blue sleeve, positioned against a beige background with brown and blue accents.

Pixelated static image of a figure in a dark top and light blue sleeve, positioned against a beige background with brown and blue accents. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet A…

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Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • figure centered
  • beige background

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image shows a figure with dark hair and a dark top, wearing a light blue sleeve on the left arm. The figure's right arm is raised, holding a brown object. Background features beige tones with brown and blue accents. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation. No text or additional objects are present.

Description

  • Pixelated static image of a figure in a dark top and light blue sleeve, positioned against a beige background with brown and blue accents.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • figure raised arm
  • beige background pixelated
  • light blue sleeve dark top
  • brown object held

Subjects

  • figure

Wordwall

  • dark hair
  • dark top
  • light blue sleeve
  • beige background
  • brown object
  • pixelated
  • static
  • low resolution
  • raised right arm
  • brown accents

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200908302025581691280555
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/5b/5b994cae497e52bdb368c9484fae5d69a7b8c91ada0ff2ed9e57abb457f4e2ff.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 UTC
Archive ID
5b994cae497e52bd
SHA-256
5b994cae497e52bdb368c9484fae5d69a7b8c91ada0ff2ed9e57abb457f4e2ff
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 2, 2026 at 12:29 UTC
Run
1254
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001248

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:34 UTC
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1039
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Overall label
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Overall score
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Pixelated static image of a figure in a dark top and light blue sleeve, positioned against a beige background with brown and blue accents.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 17:17 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,155 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,088, response 606

Review tags

  • raised right arm (action, 0.80)
  • beige (color, 0.80)
  • dark (color, 0.80)
  • dark brown (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown object (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • figure (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • raised right arm

Colors

  • dark brown
  • light blue
  • beige
  • dark

Composition

  • figure centered
  • beige background

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image shows a figure with dark hair and a dark top, wearing a light blue sleeve on the left arm. The figure's right arm is raised, holding a brown object. Background features beige tones with brown and blue accents. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation. No text or additional objects are present.

Description

  • Pixelated static image of a figure in a dark top and light blue sleeve, positioned against a beige background with brown and blue accents.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • figure raised arm
  • beige background pixelated
  • light blue sleeve dark top
  • brown object held

Objects

  • brown object

Style

  • pixelated
  • low resolution

Subjects

  • figure

Wordwall

  • dark hair
  • dark top
  • light blue sleeve
  • beige background
  • brown object
  • pixelated
  • static
  • low resolution
  • raised right arm
  • brown accents
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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
200908302025581691280555
Archive entry
200908302025581691280555.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 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#200908302025581691280555.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200908302025581691280555.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016