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A person in a red shirt holds a yellow object near their mouth against a blurred background with blue and white elements.

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • eyes open in bottom-left
  • eyes closed in top

Animation Summary

  • The person's eyes transition from closed (top ) to open (bottom-left ) while holding a yellow object near their mouth

Composition

  • three
  • central subject
  • blurred background

Dense Caption

A person with dark hair and glasses wears a red shirt and holds a yellow rectangular object near their mouth. The background shows blurred blue and white elements. The image appears in three panels: top-left and top-right panels show the person with eyes closed, while the bottom-left panel shows the person with eyes open. The rightmost panel is a solid gray color. The person has a neutral expression in all visible panels.

Description

  • A person in a red shirt holds a yellow object near their mouth against a blurred background with blue and white elements.

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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person red shirt yellow object
  • eyes closed eyes open
  • gray blue white background
  • pixelated low-resolution animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • gray panel in rightmost position
  • quarantined animationSummary: The person's eyes transition from closed (top panels) to open (bottom-left panel) while holding a yellow object near their mouth.
  • quarantined wordwall: gray panel
  • quarantined composition: three-panel grid
  • quarantined animation: eyes closed in top panels
  • quarantined animation: eyes open in bottom-left panel
  • quarantined retrieval: gray panel blue white background

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

  • red shirt
  • yellow object
  • glasses
  • dark hair
  • blue and white background
  • eyes closed
  • eyes open
  • gray

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200812241103221848828308
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/77/7762642da98215bb450320e14d09b2df6f7777d2b1186aca9d05c3eb9f6f6a8c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 UTC
Archive ID
7762642da98215bb
SHA-256
7762642da98215bb450320e14d09b2df6f7777d2b1186aca9d05c3eb9f6f6a8c
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:03 UTC
Run
1049
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.087776

OpenAI category scores

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A person in a red shirt holds a yellow object near their mouth against a blurred background with blue and white elements.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 15:15 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,713 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 741

Review tags

  • holding object near mouth (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • yellow object (object, 0.80)
  • eyes open in bottom left (other, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding object near mouth

Animation

  • eyes open in bottom-left
  • eyes closed in top

Animation Summary

  • The person's eyes transition from closed (top ) to open (bottom-left ) while holding a yellow object near their mouth

Colors

  • red
  • yellow
  • blue
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • three
  • central subject
  • blurred background

Dense Caption

A person with dark hair and glasses wears a red shirt and holds a yellow rectangular object near their mouth. The background shows blurred blue and white elements. The image appears in three panels: top-left and top-right panels show the person with eyes closed, while the bottom-left panel shows the person with eyes open. The rightmost panel is a solid gray color. The person has a neutral expression in all visible panels.

Description

  • A person in a red shirt holds a yellow object near their mouth against a blurred background with blue and white elements.

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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person red shirt yellow object
  • eyes closed eyes open
  • gray blue white background
  • pixelated low-resolution animation

Objects

  • yellow object

Preprocessing Notes

  • gray panel in rightmost position
  • quarantined animationSummary: The person's eyes transition from closed (top panels) to open (bottom-left panel) while holding a yellow object near their mouth.
  • quarantined wordwall: gray panel
  • quarantined composition: three-panel grid
  • quarantined animation: eyes closed in top panels
  • quarantined animation: eyes open in bottom-left panel
  • quarantined retrieval: gray panel blue white background

Source Metadata Interpretation

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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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • red shirt
  • yellow object
  • glasses
  • dark hair
  • blue and white background
  • eyes closed
  • eyes open
  • gray
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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
200812241103221848828308
Archive entry
200812241103221848828308.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 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#200812241103221848828308.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200812241103221848828308.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016