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A person wearing a gray cap with a black symbol, blue sunglasses, and a white shirt, making a hand gesture with fingers extended.

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A person wearing a gray cap with a black symbol, blue sunglasses, and a white shirt, making a hand gesture with fingers extended.

A person wearing a gray cap with a black symbol, blue sunglasses, and a white shirt, making a hand gesture with fingers extended. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet A…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • no visible motion changes

Animation Summary

  • No visible motion changes across frames; the image appears to be a static frame from an animated sequence.

Composition

  • centered subject
  • outdoor background

Dense Caption

The image shows a person wearing a gray cap with a black symbol on the front, blue reflective sunglasses, and a white shirt. The person is making a hand gesture with fingers extended. The background appears to be an outdoor setting with blurred greenery. The image is pixelated and has a low-resolution appearance. The person's face is partially visible, with the sunglasses covering the eyes. The hand gesture is consistent across the frames. The overall style is casual and informal.

Description

  • A person wearing a gray cap with a black symbol, blue sunglasses, and a white shirt, making a hand gesture with fingers extended.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200907041746011992485065

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person gray cap black symbol blue sunglasses white shirt hand gesture
  • gray cap black symbol blue sunglasses white shirt hand gesture
  • person blue sunglasses white shirt hand gesture
  • gray cap blue sunglasses white shirt hand gesture

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be a static frame from an animated sequence

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Wordwall

  • gray cap
  • black symbol
  • blue sunglasses
  • white shirt
  • hand gesture
  • outdoor background
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200907041746011992485065
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 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 16:00 UTC
Archive ID
731bc5276a8da521
SHA-256
731bc5276a8da5211211af216387f976bec36b0fb1a2926b747d289650fef10d
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
0.076337

OpenAI category scores

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A person wearing a gray cap with a black symbol, blue sunglasses, and a white shirt, making a hand gesture with fingers extended.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 14:00 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,975 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 833

Review tags

  • making a hand gesture (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • casual (mood, 0.80)
  • cap (object, 0.80)
  • shirt (object, 0.80)
  • sunglasses (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • making a hand gesture

Animation

  • no visible motion changes

Animation Summary

  • No visible motion changes across frames; the image appears to be a static frame from an animated sequence.

Colors

  • gray
  • black
  • blue
  • white

Composition

  • centered subject
  • outdoor background

Dense Caption

The image shows a person wearing a gray cap with a black symbol on the front, blue reflective sunglasses, and a white shirt. The person is making a hand gesture with fingers extended. The background appears to be an outdoor setting with blurred greenery. The image is pixelated and has a low-resolution appearance. The person's face is partially visible, with the sunglasses covering the eyes. The hand gesture is consistent across the frames. The overall style is casual and informal.

Description

  • A person wearing a gray cap with a black symbol, blue sunglasses, and a white shirt, making a hand gesture with fingers extended.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200907041746011992485065

Mood

  • casual

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person gray cap black symbol blue sunglasses white shirt hand gesture
  • gray cap black symbol blue sunglasses white shirt hand gesture
  • person blue sunglasses white shirt hand gesture
  • gray cap blue sunglasses white shirt hand gesture

Objects

  • cap
  • sunglasses
  • shirt

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be a static frame from an animated sequence

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • gray cap
  • black symbol
  • blue sunglasses
  • white shirt
  • hand gesture
  • outdoor background
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
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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
200907041746011992485065
Archive entry
200907041746011992485065.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 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#200907041746011992485065.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200907041746011992485065.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016