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A person wearing a blue cap and white shirt with blue text and red number 2, holding arms behind head in a pixelated static image.

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A person wearing a blue cap and white shirt with blue text and red number 2, holding arms behind head in a pixelated static image.

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered subject
  • blurred background

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image shows a person from chest up with arms raised behind head. Person wears blue cap, dark sunglasses, white shirt with blue text and red number 2. Background has dark and light brown tones. Image has low resolution with visible pixelation. No visible text beyond shirt graphics. Colors include blue, white, red, brown, and black. Composition centers the person against a blurred background.

Description

  • A person wearing a blue cap and white shirt with blue text and red number 2, holding arms behind head in a pixelated static image.

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
  • 2007-2016

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person blue cap red number 2
  • white shirt blue text arms behind head
  • pixelated static image
  • blue cap white shirt red 2
  • sunglasses arms behind head
  • low resolution static image
  • blue text red number 2
  • person holding arms behind head

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or 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

Visible Text

  • 2

Wordwall

  • blue cap
  • white shirt
  • red number 2
  • dark sunglasses
  • arms behind head
  • pixelated
  • low resolution
  • blue text on shirt
  • brown background
  • static image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200911281843171943928854
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/67/679cbe3d8a2bd594206f0166f1531f84f9a5fdc85b256a3218d9b99f0fd3c248.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 UTC
Archive ID
679cbe3d8a2bd594
SHA-256
679cbe3d8a2bd594206f0166f1531f84f9a5fdc85b256a3218d9b99f0fd3c248
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:46 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.077400

OpenAI category scores

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A person wearing a blue cap and white shirt with blue text and red number 2, holding arms behind head in a pixelated static image.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 20:47 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,820 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,095, response 702

Review tags

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  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
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  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding arms behind head

Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • red
  • brown
  • black

Composition

  • centered subject
  • blurred background

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image shows a person from chest up with arms raised behind head. Person wears blue cap, dark sunglasses, white shirt with blue text and red number 2. Background has dark and light brown tones. Image has low resolution with visible pixelation. No visible text beyond shirt graphics. Colors include blue, white, red, brown, and black. Composition centers the person against a blurred background.

Description

  • A person wearing a blue cap and white shirt with blue text and red number 2, holding arms behind head in a pixelated static image.

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
  • 2007-2016

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

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  • white shirt blue text arms behind head
  • pixelated static image
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  • sunglasses arms behind head
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  • person holding arms behind head

Objects

  • cap
  • sunglasses
  • shirt

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
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  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

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Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • 2

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  • blue cap
  • white shirt
  • red number 2
  • dark sunglasses
  • arms behind head
  • pixelated
  • low resolution
  • blue text on shirt
  • brown background
  • static image
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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
200911281843171943928854
Archive entry
200911281843171943928854.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 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#200911281843171943928854.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200911281843171943928854.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016