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Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair wearing a black top, holding a phone to their ear and a small object in the other hand against a dark background.

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Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair wearing a black top, holding a phone to their ear and a small object in the other hand against a dark background.

Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair wearing a black top, holding a phone to their ear and a small object in the other hand against a dark background. 48×48 GIF AIM b…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered figure
  • solid background
  • close-up crop

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated figure with light brown hair, wearing a black top. The figure holds a dark-colored phone to their right ear with their right hand and a small, light-colored object with a blue section in their left hand. The background is solid black. The figure's face is partially visible with a neutral expression. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics.

Description

Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair wearing a black top, holding a phone to their ear and a small object in the other hand 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 topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 200906241553101529915895

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person holding phone and object
  • light brown hair black top
  • pixelated figure phone
  • small object blue section

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears 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 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

Wordwall

  • light brown hair
  • black top
  • phone
  • small object
  • blue section
  • solid black background
  • pixelated
  • neutral expression
  • right hand
  • left hand

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200906241553101529915895
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.8 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/95/953ae6b9e49a367dd12eff54b87d555ab4981cdf51c05b78b9c3e38bfbbd7d7b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 UTC
Archive ID
953ae6b9e49a367d
SHA-256
953ae6b9e49a367dd12eff54b87d555ab4981cdf51c05b78b9c3e38bfbbd7d7b
Content-safety assessments (3)
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Assessed
August 21, 2026 at 01:07 UTC
Run
1319
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.097774

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
August 7, 2026 at 16:53 UTC
Run
1272
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:11 UTC
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OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair wearing a black top, holding a phone to their ear and a small object in the other hand against a dark background.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 13:04 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,734 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,091, response 758

Review tags

  • holding object (action, 0.80)
  • holding phone (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • phone (object, 0.80)
  • small object (object, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding phone
  • holding object

Colors

  • light brown
  • black
  • blue
  • pink
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • centered figure
  • solid background
  • close-up crop

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated figure with light brown hair, wearing a black top. The figure holds a dark-colored phone to their right ear with their right hand and a small, light-colored object with a blue section in their left hand. The background is solid black. The figure's face is partially visible with a neutral expression. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics.

Description

Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair wearing a black top, holding a phone to their ear and a small object in the other hand 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 topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 200906241553101529915895

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person holding phone and object
  • light brown hair black top
  • pixelated figure phone
  • small object blue section

Objects

  • phone
  • small object

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears 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 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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • light brown hair
  • black top
  • phone
  • small object
  • blue section
  • solid black background
  • pixelated
  • neutral expression
  • right hand
  • left hand
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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
200906241553101529915895
Archive entry
200906241553101529915895.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 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#200906241553101529915895.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200906241553101529915895.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016