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Pixelated grayscale image of a figure holding an object with visible text elements and abstract shapes.

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Pixelated grayscale image of a figure holding an object with visible text elements and abstract shapes.

Pixelated grayscale image of a figure holding an object with visible text elements and abstract shapes. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Ico…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central figure
  • scattered background elements
  • right-side character forms

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixel art depicts a central figure in motion, left arm extended downward holding a long thin object. The background contains scattered geometric shapes including squares and rectangles. Two distinct character-like forms appear on the right side; one has circular eyes and a curved mouth. A small rectangular shape is visible near the bottom center. Pixelation obscures fine details but suggests stylized human features.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale image of a figure holding an object with visible text elements and abstract shapes.

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 topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200807170722541822337322

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixel art figure
  • character forms right side
  • long thin object held
  • geometric background shapes

Uncertain Text

  • 08
  • 2007
  • franksicons.com

Visually Supported Entities

  • franksicons.com

Wordwall

  • grayscale pixel art
  • central figure in motion
  • left arm extended downward
  • long thin object held
  • geometric background shapes
  • two character-like forms on right
  • circular eyes and curved mouth
  • small rectangular shape bottom center

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200807170722541822337322
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.8 KB
Motion
Still image
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 15:34 UTC
Archive ID
9b93aacfb05a5fb8
SHA-256
9b93aacfb05a5fb8511244af6f0edddffc916c2855c2a38020412ab10a8e4814
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 4, 2026 at 17:03 UTC
Run
1266
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.023082

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:15 UTC
Run
1135
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Overall label
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Overall score
0.292106

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated grayscale image of a figure holding an object with visible text elements and abstract shapes.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 12:48 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,691 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,090, response 634

Review tags

  • arm extended downward (action, 0.80)
  • object held (action, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • geometric shapes (object, 0.80)
  • long thin object (object, 0.80)
  • small rectangular shape (object, 0.80)
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  • stylized (style, 0.80)
  • central figure (subject, 0.80)
  • character like forms (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • arm extended downward
  • object held

Colors

  • gray
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • central figure
  • scattered background elements
  • right-side character forms

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixel art depicts a central figure in motion, left arm extended downward holding a long thin object. The background contains scattered geometric shapes including squares and rectangles. Two distinct character-like forms appear on the right side; one has circular eyes and a curved mouth. A small rectangular shape is visible near the bottom center. Pixelation obscures fine details but suggests stylized human features.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale image of a figure holding an object with visible text elements and abstract shapes.

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 topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200807170722541822337322

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixel art figure
  • character forms right side
  • long thin object held
  • geometric background shapes

Objects

  • long thin object
  • geometric shapes
  • small rectangular shape

Style

  • pixel art
  • grayscale
  • stylized

Subjects

  • central figure
  • character-like forms

Uncertain Text

  • 08
  • 2007
  • franksicons.com

Visually Supported Entities

  • franksicons.com

Wordwall

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  • central figure in motion
  • left arm extended downward
  • long thin object held
  • geometric background shapes
  • two character-like forms on right
  • circular eyes and curved mouth
  • small rectangular shape bottom center
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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
200807170722541822337322
Archive entry
200807170722541822337322.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 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#200807170722541822337322.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200807170722541822337322.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016