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Pixelated grayscale icon of a stylized figure with outstretched arms against black background, rendered in low-resolution blocky style.

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Pixelated grayscale icon of a stylized figure with outstretched arms against black background, rendered in low-resolution blocky style.

Pixelated grayscale icon of a stylized figure with outstretched arms against black background, rendered in low-resolution blocky style. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Arch…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central subject
  • solid black background
  • asymmetrical balance

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixel art icon on solid black background. Central figure composed of light gray and white pixels forming abstract human-like shape with raised arms; head is dark void. Body structure uses varying shades of gray to suggest form without detail. Pixelation creates blocky, retro digital appearance. No visible text or additional elements. Composition centers the figure slightly left of image center.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale icon of a stylized figure with outstretched arms against black background, rendered in low-resolution blocky style.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation file-name (gallery): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • observation title (gallery): 20080219174254474711515
  • observation title (gallery): 200802191749361249635289
  • observation file-name (gallery): 20080219174254474711515
  • observation file-name (gallery): 200802191749361249635289

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080219174254474711515
  • 200802191749361249635289

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixel art human figure
  • black background raised arms icon
  • low-resolution blocky stylized figure
  • pixelated anime-style character

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected in static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Visually Supported Entities

  • anime
  • celebrities
  • games

Wordwall

  • grayscale pixel art
  • black background
  • stylized human shape
  • raised arms
  • blocky rendering
  • no text
  • central composition

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080219174254474711515
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:15 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200802191749361249635289
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:15 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.9 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/6a/6a916ee4fff2347219899996e67f28ffdfb11e46d5757d526885f8e9cfb75bd2.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:15 UTC
Archive ID
6a916ee4fff23472
SHA-256
6a916ee4fff2347219899996e67f28ffdfb11e46d5757d526885f8e9cfb75bd2
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:49 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.076542

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.923458onnx/unsafe0.076542onnx/nsfl0.042492onnx/nsfw0.034049
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Pixelated grayscale icon of a stylized figure with outstretched arms against black background, rendered in low-resolution blocky style.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 00:30 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,222 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,136, response 835

Review tags

  • arms raised (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • abstract (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • stylized human figure (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • arms raised

Colors

  • gray
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • central subject
  • solid black background
  • asymmetrical balance

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixel art icon on solid black background. Central figure composed of light gray and white pixels forming abstract human-like shape with raised arms; head is dark void. Body structure uses varying shades of gray to suggest form without detail. Pixelation creates blocky, retro digital appearance. No visible text or additional elements. Composition centers the figure slightly left of image center.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale icon of a stylized figure with outstretched arms against black background, rendered in low-resolution blocky style.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation file-name (gallery): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • observation title (gallery): 20080219174254474711515
  • observation title (gallery): 200802191749361249635289
  • observation file-name (gallery): 20080219174254474711515
  • observation file-name (gallery): 200802191749361249635289

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080219174254474711515
  • 200802191749361249635289

Mood

  • neutral
  • abstract

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixel art human figure
  • black background raised arms icon
  • low-resolution blocky stylized figure
  • pixelated anime-style character

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected in static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • grayscale

Subjects

  • stylized human figure

Visually Supported Entities

  • anime
  • celebrities
  • games

Wordwall

  • grayscale pixel art
  • black background
  • stylized human shape
  • raised arms
  • blocky rendering
  • no text
  • central composition
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Full source records (2)

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
20080219174254474711515
Archive entry
20080219174254474711515.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:15 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#20080219174254474711515.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080219174254474711515.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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
200802191749361249635289
Archive entry
200802191749361249635289.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:15 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#200802191749361249635289.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200802191749361249635289.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016