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Pixelated image of a person in a white shirt with a blue tie, holding a microphone, surrounded by large white text blocks on a dark background.

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Pixelated image of a person in a white shirt with a blue tie, holding a microphone, surrounded by large white text blocks on a dark background.

Pixelated image of a person in a white shirt with a blue tie, holding a microphone, surrounded by large white text blocks on a dark background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Inter…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • grid layout
  • figure on left
  • text blocks on right

Dense Caption

The image is highly pixelated. A figure in a white shirt and blue tie holds a microphone. The figure's face is partially visible with light brown hair. Large white text blocks are arranged in a grid-like pattern on a dark background. The text is mostly illegible due to pixelation. The figure appears to be positioned on the left side of the image. The background consists of dark and light gray tones. The overall image quality is low-resolution.

Description

Pixelated image of a person in a white shirt with a blue tie, holding a microphone, surrounded by large white text blocks on a dark 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 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
  • 20081118213415909157312

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person microphone
  • white shirt blue tie
  • dark background text blocks
  • low-resolution grid layout

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be upscaled or low-resolution

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

Uncertain Text

  • WORLD

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • white shirt
  • blue tie
  • microphone
  • dark background
  • large text blocks
  • light brown hair
  • illegible text
  • grid layout
  • low-resolution

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081118213415909157312
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.8 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/7d/7d4ffb5e396cde7aaacd0d7f5d397fb03eab9afcce4fd186c157a2b973a0ee83.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC
Archive ID
7d4ffb5e396cde7a
SHA-256
7d4ffb5e396cde7aaacd0d7f5d397fb03eab9afcce4fd186c157a2b973a0ee83
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:15 UTC
Run
1079
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.070043

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated image of a person in a white shirt with a blue tie, holding a microphone, surrounded by large white text blocks on a dark background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 09:33 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,758 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,085, response 800

Review tags

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  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • dark gray (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • microphone (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding

Colors

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

Composition

  • grid layout
  • figure on left
  • text blocks on right

Dense Caption

The image is highly pixelated. A figure in a white shirt and blue tie holds a microphone. The figure's face is partially visible with light brown hair. Large white text blocks are arranged in a grid-like pattern on a dark background. The text is mostly illegible due to pixelation. The figure appears to be positioned on the left side of the image. The background consists of dark and light gray tones. The overall image quality is low-resolution.

Description

Pixelated image of a person in a white shirt with a blue tie, holding a microphone, surrounded by large white text blocks on a dark 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 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
  • 20081118213415909157312

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person microphone
  • white shirt blue tie
  • dark background text blocks
  • low-resolution grid layout

Objects

  • microphone

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be upscaled or low-resolution

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 topic-coverage: anime
  • 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

Uncertain Text

  • WORLD

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • white shirt
  • blue tie
  • microphone
  • dark background
  • large text blocks
  • light brown hair
  • illegible text
  • grid layout
  • 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
20081118213415909157312
Archive entry
20081118213415909157312.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 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#20081118213415909157312.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081118213415909157312.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016