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A person in a blue striped shirt sits in a chair with a red backrest, positioned against a light-colored wall with framed items.

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A person in a blue striped shirt sits in a chair with a red backrest, positioned against a light-colored wall with framed items.

A person in a blue striped shirt sits in a chair with a red backrest, positioned against a light-colored wall with framed items. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Ar…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • head turns left to right
  • head turns down

Animation Summary

  • The person's head turns left to right and then down across the three sections of the image.

Composition

  • three-section layout
  • person centered
  • background elements

Dense Caption

The image shows a person with dark curly hair wearing a blue striped shirt with a black collar. The person is seated in a chair with a red backrest. Behind the person, there is a light-colored wall with framed items. The image is divided into three sections: the top-left section shows the person looking slightly left, the top-right section shows the person looking slightly right, and the bottom section shows the person looking down. The background includes a light-colored curtain on the left side and framed items on the wall. The image has a pixelated appearance.

Description

  • A person in a blue striped shirt sits in a chair with a red backrest, positioned against a light-colored wall with framed items.

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 Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person blue striped shirt red chair
  • person looking left right down
  • pixelated image three sections
  • framed items curtain background

Preprocessing Notes

  • image divided into three sections

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

Wordwall

  • blue striped shirt
  • red backrest chair
  • light-colored wall
  • framed items
  • dark curly hair
  • pixelated appearance
  • person looking left
  • person looking right
  • person looking down
  • light-colored curtain

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200902051557061925608092
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:51 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.7 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:51 UTC
Archive ID
9a26d14ee31ae3c1
SHA-256
9a26d14ee31ae3c1c4f71e1016d8ca023e3b64489a2c18d2e04875c527bcda8b
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:15 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.089931

OpenAI category scores

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A person in a blue striped shirt sits in a chair with a red backrest, positioned against a light-colored wall with framed items.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 21:39 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,620 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 801

Review tags

  • looking down (action, 0.80)
  • looking left (action, 0.80)
  • looking right (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • light colored (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • chair (object, 0.80)
  • curtain (object, 0.80)
  • framed items (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • looking left
  • looking right
  • looking down

Animation

  • head turns left to right
  • head turns down

Animation Summary

  • The person's head turns left to right and then down across the three sections of the image.

Colors

  • blue
  • red
  • light-colored
  • black

Composition

  • three-section layout
  • person centered
  • background elements

Dense Caption

The image shows a person with dark curly hair wearing a blue striped shirt with a black collar. The person is seated in a chair with a red backrest. Behind the person, there is a light-colored wall with framed items. The image is divided into three sections: the top-left section shows the person looking slightly left, the top-right section shows the person looking slightly right, and the bottom section shows the person looking down. The background includes a light-colored curtain on the left side and framed items on the wall. The image has a pixelated appearance.

Description

  • A person in a blue striped shirt sits in a chair with a red backrest, positioned against a light-colored wall with framed items.

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 Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person blue striped shirt red chair
  • person looking left right down
  • pixelated image three sections
  • framed items curtain background

Objects

  • chair
  • curtain
  • framed items

Preprocessing Notes

  • image divided into three sections

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • 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

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

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  • red backrest chair
  • light-colored wall
  • framed items
  • dark curly hair
  • pixelated appearance
  • person looking left
  • person looking right
  • person looking down
  • light-colored curtain
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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
200902051557061925608092
Archive entry
200902051557061925608092.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:51 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#200902051557061925608092.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200902051557061925608092.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016