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Pixelated image of a person with dark hair wearing a black shirt with red and white symbols, holding a blue object near a light-colored background.

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Pixelated image of a person with dark hair wearing a black shirt with red and white symbols, holding a blue object near a light-colored background.

Pixelated image of a person with dark hair wearing a black shirt with red and white symbols, holding a blue object near a light-colored background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from I…

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Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • upper body crop
  • vertical background elements

Dense Caption

Pixelated static image shows a figure with dark hair and a black shirt featuring a red square and white stylized design. The figure holds a blue cylindrical object near their shoulder. Background includes light-colored vertical elements and a white area. Colors visible: black, red, white, blue, brown, orange, yellow. Composition is cropped to show upper body. No readable text present. Pixelation suggests low-resolution rendering.

Description

Pixelated image of a person with dark hair wearing a black shirt with red and white symbols, holding a blue object near a light-colored 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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20100101091930706149212
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person holding blue object
  • black shirt red white design
  • pixelated upper body
  • light background vertical elements

Wordwall

  • dark hair
  • black shirt
  • red square
  • white stylized design
  • blue cylindrical object
  • light-colored vertical background
  • pixelated rendering
  • upper body crop

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20100101091930706149212
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
2.3 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/6f/6f0be211915191b14697fa75365d90fd790b60dc7cc81e2da89bcdf6db08f286.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 UTC
Archive ID
6f0be211915191b1
SHA-256
6f0be211915191b14697fa75365d90fd790b60dc7cc81e2da89bcdf6db08f286
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 13, 2026 at 01:38 UTC
Run
1287
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.016319

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:53 UTC
Run
1039
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Overall label
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Overall score
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated image of a person with dark hair wearing a black shirt with red and white symbols, holding a blue object near a light-colored background.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 15:55 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,205 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,089, response 711

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
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  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • blue cylindrical object (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding

Colors

  • black
  • red
  • white
  • blue
  • brown
  • orange
  • yellow

Composition

  • upper body crop
  • vertical background elements

Dense Caption

Pixelated static image shows a figure with dark hair and a black shirt featuring a red square and white stylized design. The figure holds a blue cylindrical object near their shoulder. Background includes light-colored vertical elements and a white area. Colors visible: black, red, white, blue, brown, orange, yellow. Composition is cropped to show upper body. No readable text present. Pixelation suggests low-resolution rendering.

Description

Pixelated image of a person with dark hair wearing a black shirt with red and white symbols, holding a blue object near a light-colored 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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20100101091930706149212
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person holding blue object
  • black shirt red white design
  • pixelated upper body
  • light background vertical elements

Objects

  • blue cylindrical object

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • dark hair
  • black shirt
  • red square
  • white stylized design
  • blue cylindrical object
  • light-colored vertical background
  • pixelated rendering
  • upper body crop
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Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 21:51 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
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Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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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
20100101091930706149212
Archive entry
20100101091930706149212.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#20100101091930706149212.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20100101091930706149212.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016