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Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and a light-colored shirt holding a small object against a blurred background.

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Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and a light-colored shirt holding a small object against a blurred background.

Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and a light-colored shirt holding a small object against a blurred background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcon…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • person centered
  • object held in lower right
  • background elements on left and right

Dense Caption

Pixelated image shows a person with dark hair and a light-colored shirt holding a small rectangular object with a dark circular detail. The background features a light brown wall on the left, a dark vertical shape, and a bright light source on the right. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation, no text, and no discernible motion.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and a light-colored shirt holding a small object against a blurred 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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20090304102922898496994

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person holding object
  • dark hair light shirt
  • brown wall bright light
  • low resolution image
  • small rectangular object with dark circle
  • person centered background elements
  • no text pixelated image
  • dark vertical shape bright light source

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  • pixelated
  • dark hair
  • light-colored shirt
  • small rectangular object
  • dark circular detail
  • light brown wall
  • dark vertical shape
  • bright light source
  • low resolution
  • no text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090304102922898496994
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/79/79dd21c8c99200142261a795cbf3348820c799cd006f2706f8000fdc65faecf0.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 UTC
Archive ID
79dd21c8c9920014
SHA-256
79dd21c8c99200142261a795cbf3348820c799cd006f2706f8000fdc65faecf0
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:02 UTC
Run
1047
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.105111

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and a light-colored shirt holding a small object against a blurred background.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 01:36 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,996 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,091, response 715

Review tags

  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark gray (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • small rectangular object (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • brown
  • dark gray
  • light gray
  • white
  • dark brown

Composition

  • person centered
  • object held in lower right
  • background elements on left and right

Dense Caption

Pixelated image shows a person with dark hair and a light-colored shirt holding a small rectangular object with a dark circular detail. The background features a light brown wall on the left, a dark vertical shape, and a bright light source on the right. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation, no text, and no discernible motion.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and a light-colored shirt holding a small object against a blurred 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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20090304102922898496994

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person holding object
  • dark hair light shirt
  • brown wall bright light
  • low resolution image
  • small rectangular object with dark circle
  • person centered background elements
  • no text pixelated image
  • dark vertical shape bright light source

Objects

  • small rectangular object

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

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  • dark hair
  • light-colored shirt
  • small rectangular object
  • dark circular detail
  • light brown wall
  • dark vertical shape
  • bright light source
  • low resolution
  • no text
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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
20090304102922898496994
Archive entry
20090304102922898496994.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 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#20090304102922898496994.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090304102922898496994.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016