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Pixelated grayscale image of a figure with a rounded head and body, one arm raised in a waving gesture, against a dark background.

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Pixelated grayscale image of a figure with a rounded head and body, one arm raised in a waving gesture, against a dark background.

Pixelated grayscale image of a figure with a rounded head and body, one arm raised in a waving gesture, against a dark background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive F…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central figure
  • dark background
  • negative space

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixelated image with low resolution. Central figure has rounded head and body, light gray tones. One arm extended upward and outward in a waving motion, hand with visible fingers. Dark background with subtle pixel variations. No text or additional objects present. Figure appears to be a simplified humanoid form. Pixelation creates soft edges and blocky appearance. Composition centers the figure with negative space on left and right.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale image of a figure with a rounded head and body, one arm raised in a waving gesture, against a dark background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • anime
  • celebrities
  • games
  • holidays
  • humor
  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • Internet Archive
  • AIM
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • AIM
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Metadata Supported By Image

  • grayscale
  • static
  • buddy icon

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale waving humanoid
  • pixelated dark background figure
  • low resolution waving figure
  • grayscale humanoid waving
  • pixelated figure dark background
  • waving humanoid grayscale
  • low resolution grayscale figure
  • dark background waving figure

Preprocessing Notes

  • pixelation
  • low resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • grayscale
  • static
  • buddy icon

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • waving
  • humanoid
  • dark background
  • low resolution
  • rounded head
  • extended arm
  • blocky appearance
  • central figure

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070819134939644644044
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.7 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/7f/7f2dca8fb01eed81f9594512f61f77603bb172f483e65daa8d9a472d538dcb5d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC
Archive ID
7f2dca8fb01eed81
SHA-256
7f2dca8fb01eed81f9594512f61f77603bb172f483e65daa8d9a472d538dcb5d
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:19 UTC
Run
1089
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.077279

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.922722onnx/unsafe0.077279onnx/nsfw0.041327onnx/nsfl0.035952
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated grayscale image of a figure with a rounded head and body, one arm raised in a waving gesture, against a dark background.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 02:12 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,027 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,091, response 595

Review tags

  • waving (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • humanoid figure (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • waving

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • central figure
  • dark background
  • negative space

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixelated image with low resolution. Central figure has rounded head and body, light gray tones. One arm extended upward and outward in a waving motion, hand with visible fingers. Dark background with subtle pixel variations. No text or additional objects present. Figure appears to be a simplified humanoid form. Pixelation creates soft edges and blocky appearance. Composition centers the figure with negative space on left and right.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale image of a figure with a rounded head and body, one arm raised in a waving gesture, against a dark background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • anime
  • celebrities
  • games
  • holidays
  • humor
  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • Internet Archive
  • AIM
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • AIM
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Metadata Supported By Image

  • grayscale
  • static
  • buddy icon

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale waving humanoid
  • pixelated dark background figure
  • low resolution waving figure
  • grayscale humanoid waving
  • pixelated figure dark background
  • waving humanoid grayscale
  • low resolution grayscale figure
  • dark background waving figure

Preprocessing Notes

  • pixelation
  • low resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • grayscale
  • static
  • buddy icon

Style

  • pixelated
  • grayscale
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • humanoid figure

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • waving
  • humanoid
  • dark background
  • low resolution
  • rounded head
  • extended arm
  • blocky appearance
  • central figure
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 12:12 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 (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
20070819134939644644044
Archive entry
20070819134939644644044.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 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#20070819134939644644044.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070819134939644644044.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016