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Animated sequence showing a person with dark hair in three distinct poses: a black-and-white close-up, a grayscale side profile, and a color close-up with hands near the face.

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Animated sequence showing a person with dark hair in three distinct poses: a black-and-white close-up, a grayscale side profile, and a color close-up with hands near the face.

Animated sequence showing a person with dark hair in three distinct poses: a black-and-white close-up, a grayscale side profile, and a color close-up with hands near the face. Ani…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • sequence
  • pose transition

Animation Summary

The animation transitions through three distinct poses: a black-and-white close-up with red circular elements and partial text "FRANKS", a grayscale side profile against a textured background, and a color close-up with hands near the face and a smile.

Composition

  • close-up
  • side profile
  • textured background

Dense Caption

The animation consists of three sequential frames. First frame: black-and-white close-up of a person with dark hair, wearing a light-colored collared shirt, against a dark background with red circular elements and partial white text reading "FRANKS". Second frame: grayscale side profile of the same person with dark hair, wearing a light-colored top, against a textured light background. Third frame: color close-up of the person with dark hair, hands near the face, smiling, wearing a dark top with a light collar, against a dark background. The animation transitions between these three distinct poses.

Description

Animated sequence showing a person with dark hair in three distinct poses: a black-and-white close-up, a grayscale side profile, and a color close-up with hands near the face.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Metadata Only Entities

  • celebrities

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • franksicons.com shared buddy icons
  • 200907221342301628585362
  • buddy icons 2007-2016
  • franksicons 2009
  • buddy icons celebrities
  • franksicons shared
  • buddy icons historical archive
  • franksicons 2007-2016

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling detected
  • no matte or border elements
  • quarantined animation: three-frame sequence

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Visible Text

  • FRANKS

Wordwall

  • black-and-white close-up
  • grayscale side profile
  • color close-up
  • dark hair
  • light-colored collar
  • red circular elements
  • partial text FRANKS
  • hands near face
  • smiling
  • textured light background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200907221342301628585362
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
5.5 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/99/9916c20b7036adf6281aaf3ef7b4b06f9317e3a1a3bcdc8b7c8dc61117dd3a67.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 UTC
Archive ID
9916c20b7036adf6
SHA-256
9916c20b7036adf6281aaf3ef7b4b06f9317e3a1a3bcdc8b7c8dc61117dd3a67
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Assessed
August 16, 2026 at 08:49 UTC
Run
1298
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.002757

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:13 UTC
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1133
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Animated sequence showing a person with dark hair in three distinct poses: a black-and-white close-up, a grayscale side profile, and a color close-up with hands near the face.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 15:05 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,327 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 833

Review tags

  • hands near face (action, 0.80)
  • side profile (action, 0.80)
  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • red circular elements (object, 0.80)
  • color (style, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling
  • hands near face
  • side profile

Animation

  • sequence
  • pose transition

Animation Summary

The animation transitions through three distinct poses: a black-and-white close-up with red circular elements and partial text "FRANKS", a grayscale side profile against a textured background, and a color close-up with hands near the face and a smile.

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray
  • red
  • dark hair
  • light-colored

Composition

  • close-up
  • side profile
  • textured background

Dense Caption

The animation consists of three sequential frames. First frame: black-and-white close-up of a person with dark hair, wearing a light-colored collared shirt, against a dark background with red circular elements and partial white text reading "FRANKS". Second frame: grayscale side profile of the same person with dark hair, wearing a light-colored top, against a textured light background. Third frame: color close-up of the person with dark hair, hands near the face, smiling, wearing a dark top with a light collar, against a dark background. The animation transitions between these three distinct poses.

Description

Animated sequence showing a person with dark hair in three distinct poses: a black-and-white close-up, a grayscale side profile, and a color close-up with hands near the face.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Metadata Only Entities

  • celebrities

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Mood

  • smiling
  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • franksicons.com shared buddy icons
  • 200907221342301628585362
  • buddy icons 2007-2016
  • franksicons 2009
  • buddy icons celebrities
  • franksicons shared
  • buddy icons historical archive
  • franksicons 2007-2016

Objects

  • red circular elements

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling detected
  • no matte or border elements
  • quarantined animation: three-frame sequence

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • grayscale
  • color

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • FRANKS

Wordwall

  • black-and-white close-up
  • grayscale side profile
  • color close-up
  • dark hair
  • light-colored collar
  • red circular elements
  • partial text FRANKS
  • hands near face
  • smiling
  • textured light background
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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
200907221342301628585362
Archive entry
200907221342301628585362.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 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#200907221342301628585362.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200907221342301628585362.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016