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Pixelated grayscale image of a person with short hair wearing a collared shirt, holding an object resembling a microphone or weapon.

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Pixelated grayscale image of a person with short hair wearing a collared shirt, holding an object resembling a microphone or weapon.

Pixelated grayscale image of a person with short hair wearing a collared shirt, holding an object resembling a microphone or weapon. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered figure
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixel art depicts a figure with short light-colored hair and closed eyes. The figure wears a collared shirt with visible shoulder details. One hand holds a long cylindrical object extending from the lower right toward the upper left. Background is solid black. Pixelation creates blocky textures across all elements. No readable text or distinct symbols are present.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale image of a person with short hair wearing a collared shirt, holding an object resembling a microphone or weapon.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200805271629251171659730
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixel art person holding cylindrical object
  • closed eyes collared shirt black background
  • pixelated figure solid background grayscale
  • cylindrical object held by person

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected in static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • grayscale pixel art
  • closed eyes
  • collared shirt
  • long cylindrical object
  • solid black background
  • blocky texture

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200805271629251171659730
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:28 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.1 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/91/914fd2723c143fb17c49a76dcc9934718f71afb1b3cdbfece74973c97e69ac2b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:28 UTC
Archive ID
914fd2723c143fb1
SHA-256
914fd2723c143fb17c49a76dcc9934718f71afb1b3cdbfece74973c97e69ac2b
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 5, 2026 at 19:48 UTC
Run
1269
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001501

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagillicit0.001501falseviolence0.000596falseself-harm0.000457falseself-harm/intent0.000212falsesexual0.000152falseharassment0.000056falseillicit/violent0.000035falseviolence/graphic0.000025falseharassment/threatening0.000018falsehate0.000009falseself-harm/instructions0.000004falsesexual/minors0.000002falsehate/threatening0.000001false

Qwen scheduling evidence

Evidence strength is retained for queueing and audit. It does not set the public content-safety verdict.

EvidenceStrengthInputenrichment/visual/violence0.500000image
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:09 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.072715

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.927285onnx/unsafe0.072715onnx/nsfl0.039897onnx/nsfw0.032818
Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated grayscale image of a person with short hair wearing a collared shirt, holding an object resembling a microphone or weapon.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 19:45 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,965 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,089, response 662

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • cylindrical object (object, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • centered figure
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixel art depicts a figure with short light-colored hair and closed eyes. The figure wears a collared shirt with visible shoulder details. One hand holds a long cylindrical object extending from the lower right toward the upper left. Background is solid black. Pixelation creates blocky textures across all elements. No readable text or distinct symbols are present.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale image of a person with short hair wearing a collared shirt, holding an object resembling a microphone or weapon.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200805271629251171659730
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixel art person holding cylindrical object
  • closed eyes collared shirt black background
  • pixelated figure solid background grayscale
  • cylindrical object held by person

Objects

  • cylindrical object

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected in static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Style

  • pixel art

Subjects

  • person

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • grayscale pixel art
  • closed eyes
  • collared shirt
  • long cylindrical object
  • solid black background
  • blocky texture
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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
200805271629251171659730
Archive entry
200805271629251171659730.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:28 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#200805271629251171659730.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200805271629251171659730.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016