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A person wearing a blue and silver helmet with white text, smiling broadly with mouth open, against a light background.

A person wearing a blue and silver helmet with white text, smiling broadly with mouth open, against a light background. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fra…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Actions

  • mouth open

Composition

  • centered subject
  • plain background

Dense Caption

The image shows a person wearing a blue and silver helmet with white text on the blue section. The person has short brown hair and is wearing a dark shirt. The background is a plain light color. The person's mouth is open in a broad smile, showing teeth. The image appears to be a static frame from an animation, with no visible motion changes between observations.

Description

  • A person wearing a blue and silver helmet with white text, smiling broadly with mouth open, against a light 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 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080302150544267834475
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person wearing blue silver helmet
  • broad smile teeth
  • white text on helmet
  • light background
  • pixelated image
  • dark shirt
  • short brown hair
  • static frame

Preprocessing Notes

  • static frame
  • no motion changes observed

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

  • white text on helmet

Wordwall

  • blue and silver helmet
  • white text on helmet
  • short brown hair
  • dark shirt
  • light background
  • broad smile
  • mouth open
  • teeth visible

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080302150544267834475
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/98/988855b1b35b722a2201a56beb2bac15cf5a8d23bbebc0551d2c3182205f89ba.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 UTC
Archive ID
988855b1b35b722a
SHA-256
988855b1b35b722a2201a56beb2bac15cf5a8d23bbebc0551d2c3182205f89ba
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:13 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.084529

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A person wearing a blue and silver helmet with white text, smiling broadly with mouth open, against a light background.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 14:44 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,397 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 808

Review tags

  • mouth open (action, 0.80)
  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark (color, 0.80)
  • silver (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • helmet (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling
  • mouth open

Colors

  • blue
  • silver
  • white
  • brown
  • dark
  • light

Composition

  • centered subject
  • plain background

Dense Caption

The image shows a person wearing a blue and silver helmet with white text on the blue section. The person has short brown hair and is wearing a dark shirt. The background is a plain light color. The person's mouth is open in a broad smile, showing teeth. The image appears to be a static frame from an animation, with no visible motion changes between observations.

Description

  • A person wearing a blue and silver helmet with white text, smiling broadly with mouth open, against a light 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 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080302150544267834475
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • happy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • broad smile teeth
  • white text on helmet
  • light background
  • pixelated image
  • dark shirt
  • short brown hair
  • static frame

Objects

  • helmet

Preprocessing Notes

  • static frame
  • no motion changes observed

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • 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

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • white text on helmet

Wordwall

  • blue and silver helmet
  • white text on helmet
  • short brown hair
  • dark shirt
  • light background
  • broad smile
  • mouth open
  • teeth visible
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 04:38 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
20080302150544267834475
Archive entry
20080302150544267834475.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 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#20080302150544267834475.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080302150544267834475.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016