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Pixelated image of a shirtless person with dark hair wearing a blue sleeveless top, holding a white object above their head against a dark background.

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Pixelated image of a shirtless person with dark hair wearing a blue sleeveless top, holding a white object above their head against a dark background.

Pixelated image of a shirtless person with dark hair wearing a blue sleeveless top, holding a white object above their head against a dark background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon fro…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • figure centered
  • text bottom-left
  • dark background

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated figure with light skin and dark hair, wearing a blue sleeveless garment. The figure holds a white cylindrical object above their head with their right arm extended. The background is dark with indistinct brown and green tones. At the bottom left, there is a black rectangular shape with blue text reading "Cule" in a blocky font. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated appearance with visible dithering and color banding.

Description

Pixelated image of a shirtless person with dark hair wearing a blue sleeveless top, holding a white object above their head against 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
  • 20090114084415169635325

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • shirtless person blue sleeveless top white object
  • Cule text pixelated image
  • dark background blue text
  • low-resolution pixelated figure

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled

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

Visible Text

  • Cule

Wordwall

  • shirtless person
  • dark hair
  • blue sleeveless top
  • white cylindrical object
  • dark background
  • black rectangle
  • blue text
  • Cule
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • dithering
  • color banding
  • right arm extended
  • light skin
  • brown and green background tones

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090114084415169635325
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.8 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/92/9257a6551732d9aeb065e8e79ed9f46da4dd77c5fac210e549804c03289be537.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 UTC
Archive ID
9257a6551732d9ae
SHA-256
9257a6551732d9aeb065e8e79ed9f46da4dd77c5fac210e549804c03289be537
Content-safety assessments (1)
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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
0.118369

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.881631onnx/unsafe0.118369onnx/nsfw0.082567onnx/nsfl0.035802
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Pixelated image of a shirtless person with dark hair wearing a blue sleeveless top, holding a white object above their head against a dark background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 18:07 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,705 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,091, response 851

Review tags

  • holding object above head (action, 0.80)
  • right arm extended (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • dark hair (color, 0.80)
  • light skin (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • white cylindrical object (object, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • shirtless person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding object above head
  • right arm extended

Colors

  • light skin
  • dark hair
  • blue
  • white
  • black
  • brown
  • green

Composition

  • figure centered
  • text bottom-left
  • dark background

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated figure with light skin and dark hair, wearing a blue sleeveless garment. The figure holds a white cylindrical object above their head with their right arm extended. The background is dark with indistinct brown and green tones. At the bottom left, there is a black rectangular shape with blue text reading "Cule" in a blocky font. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated appearance with visible dithering and color banding.

Description

Pixelated image of a shirtless person with dark hair wearing a blue sleeveless top, holding a white object above their head against 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
  • 20090114084415169635325

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • shirtless person blue sleeveless top white object
  • Cule text pixelated image
  • dark background blue text
  • low-resolution pixelated figure

Objects

  • white cylindrical object

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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
  • blocky text

Subjects

  • shirtless person

Visible Text

  • Cule

Wordwall

  • shirtless person
  • dark hair
  • blue sleeveless top
  • white cylindrical object
  • dark background
  • black rectangle
  • blue text
  • Cule
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • dithering
  • color banding
  • right arm extended
  • light skin
  • brown and green background tones
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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
20090114084415169635325
Archive entry
20090114084415169635325.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 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#20090114084415169635325.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090114084415169635325.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016