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A person with short dark hair and a black collar smiles against a blue background with white pixelated patterns.

A person with short dark hair and a black collar smiles against a blue background with white pixelated patterns. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcon…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • centered subject
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The image shows a person with short dark hair and a black collar. The person is smiling with eyes partially closed. The background is solid blue with white pixelated patterns. The image is divided into four quadrants; the bottom-right quadrant is gray. The person's hair and facial features are consistent across all visible sections.

Description

  • A person with short dark hair and a black collar smiles against a blue background with white pixelated patterns.

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 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200810271348491645050833

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person smiling blue background
  • short dark hair black collar
  • four quadrants gray section
  • pixelated blue white gray

Preprocessing Notes

  • gray quadrant may be a placeholder or error

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

  • short dark hair
  • black collar
  • smiling
  • blue background
  • white pixelated patterns
  • gray quadrant
  • four quadrants

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200810271348491645050833
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 UTC

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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
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 UTC
Archive ID
6c34ecafab2f89a7
SHA-256
6c34ecafab2f89a77f8a3f783341f9b9011cc2e3da4ae72e849cfa00696d4e3f
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:50 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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A person with short dark hair and a black collar smiles against a blue background with white pixelated patterns.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 05:49 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,462 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 746

Review tags

  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • dark brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
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Actions

  • smiling

Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • gray
  • black
  • dark brown

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • centered subject
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The image shows a person with short dark hair and a black collar. The person is smiling with eyes partially closed. The background is solid blue with white pixelated patterns. The image is divided into four quadrants; the bottom-right quadrant is gray. The person's hair and facial features are consistent across all visible sections.

Description

  • A person with short dark hair and a black collar smiles against a blue background with white pixelated patterns.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200810271348491645050833

Mood

  • happy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person smiling blue background
  • short dark hair black collar
  • four quadrants gray section
  • pixelated blue white gray

Preprocessing Notes

  • gray quadrant may be a placeholder or error

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • short dark hair
  • black collar
  • smiling
  • blue background
  • white pixelated patterns
  • gray quadrant
  • four quadrants
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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
200810271348491645050833
Archive entry
200810271348491645050833.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 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#200810271348491645050833.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200810271348491645050833.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016