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A pixelated image shows a person holding a glowing object near their face, with a dark background and warm color tones.

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A pixelated image shows a person holding a glowing object near their face, with a dark background and warm color tones.

A pixelated image shows a person holding a glowing object near their face, with a dark background and warm color tones. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • person slightly left of center
  • glowing object near right ear
  • dark background

Dense Caption

The image is a low-resolution, pixelated static image. A person with light skin and short hair is positioned slightly left of center. They hold a glowing, elongated object emitting bright orange and white light near their right ear. The object has a smooth, rounded base and a tapered top. The person's right hand is visible, fingers curled around the object. The background is dark, with subtle brown and gray tones. The image has a grainy texture and visible pixelation, suggesting low resolution. No text is visible in the image.

Description

  • A pixelated image shows a person holding a glowing object near their face, with a dark background and warm color tones.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: action
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: cars
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: dolls
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person holding glowing object
  • glowing object near ear
  • pixelated image dark background
  • orange white brown gray colors

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2005
  • provenance era: 2011
  • provenance source-name: Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs
  • provenance topic-coverage: action
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: cars
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: dolls
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Wordwall

  • person
  • glowing object
  • light
  • dark background
  • pixelated
  • low resolution
  • orange
  • white
  • brown
  • gray
  • hand
  • ear
  • short hair
  • light skin
  • grainy texture
  • tapered top
  • rounded base
  • fingers curled
  • slightly left of center
  • smooth surface

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Added to archive
July 11, 2026

Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs

Source title
26268
Category
img / icon
Era
Mid-to-Late-2000s AIM Portal
Observed
July 11, 2026 at 21:59 UTC

Original record Source download

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 11, 2026
Relative path
icons/72/72a9d7c7043bb1ee4c9f9a88deb1645677c61c7b9f2d978a7038e752b8665ec3.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 11, 2026 at 21:59 UTC
Archive ID
72a9d7c7043bb1ee
SHA-256
72a9d7c7043bb1ee4c9f9a88deb1645677c61c7b9f2d978a7038e752b8665ec3
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:57 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.078223

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A pixelated image shows a person holding a glowing object near their face, with a dark background and warm color tones.

Reviewed
August 24, 2026 at 16:58 UTC
Run
68
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,552 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,028, response 740

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • near ear (action, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light skin (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • mysterious (mood, 0.80)
  • glowing object (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding
  • near ear

Colors

  • orange
  • white
  • brown
  • gray
  • light skin

Composition

  • person slightly left of center
  • glowing object near right ear
  • dark background

Dense Caption

The image is a low-resolution, pixelated static image. A person with light skin and short hair is positioned slightly left of center. They hold a glowing, elongated object emitting bright orange and white light near their right ear. The object has a smooth, rounded base and a tapered top. The person's right hand is visible, fingers curled around the object. The background is dark, with subtle brown and gray tones. The image has a grainy texture and visible pixelation, suggesting low resolution. No text is visible in the image.

Description

  • A pixelated image shows a person holding a glowing object near their face, with a dark background and warm color tones.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: action
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: cars
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: dolls
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Mood

  • mysterious

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person holding glowing object
  • glowing object near ear
  • pixelated image dark background
  • orange white brown gray colors

Objects

  • glowing object

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2005
  • provenance era: 2011
  • provenance source-name: Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs
  • provenance topic-coverage: action
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: cars
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: dolls
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Style

  • pixelated
  • low resolution

Subjects

  • person

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  • orange
  • white
  • brown
  • gray
  • hand
  • ear
  • short hair
  • light skin
  • grainy texture
  • tapered top
  • rounded base
  • fingers curled
  • slightly left of center
  • smooth surface
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 04:16 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
Raw JSON
Source semantic tags (1)
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Full source records (1)
Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs (wayback-buddy-icons-info-img-icon-gifs)
Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-to-Late-2000s AIM Portal
Type
Wayback direct native asset enumeration
Category
img / icon
Alt
26268
Observed
July 11, 2026 at 21:59 UTC
Rights
mixed user-submitted and licensed imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
native Buddy-Icons.info AIM icon assets spanning user submissions, fandom, identity, relationships, school, sports, music, movies, and celebrity culture
Original: http://buddy-icons.info/img/icon/26268.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20100924045102id_/http://buddy-icons.info/img/icon/26268.gif