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Pixelated static image of a person in a white sleeveless top and dark shorts, holding a phone to their ear against a blue and gray background.

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Pixelated static image of a person in a white sleeveless top and dark shorts, holding a phone to their ear against a blue and gray background.

Pixelated static image of a person in a white sleeveless top and dark shorts, holding a phone to their ear against a blue and gray background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Intern…

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Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • waist-up
  • vertical blue section on right
  • muted background on left

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image shows a person from the waist up, wearing a white sleeveless top and dark shorts. The person holds a light-colored rectangular object (phone) to their right ear with their right hand. The background features a blue vertical section on the right and a muted grayish-brown section on the left. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation, no text, and no discernible facial features or additional props.

Description

Pixelated static image of a person in a white sleeveless top and dark shorts, holding a phone to their ear against a blue and gray 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 topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person holding phone
  • white sleeveless top
  • dark shorts
  • blue and gray background
  • pixelated static image
  • waist-up view
  • no facial features
  • low resolution

Wordwall

  • person
  • white sleeveless top
  • dark shorts
  • phone
  • right hand
  • blue background
  • gray background
  • pixelated
  • static
  • waist-up
  • no facial features
  • low resolution
  • no text
  • holding phone
  • vertical blue section
  • muted background
  • white top
  • right hand holding
  • pixelated image

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20100320103334296972233
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:05 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/9b/9baa628f57d7ad23699a2049371e6fffd5e336e6c182fdcadfa3563ce7fae2dd.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:05 UTC
Archive ID
9baa628f57d7ad23
SHA-256
9baa628f57d7ad23699a2049371e6fffd5e336e6c182fdcadfa3563ce7fae2dd
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 29, 2026 at 17:45 UTC
Run
15963
Input
image+text
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
August 6, 2026 at 16:56 UTC
Run
1272
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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 19:15 UTC
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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated static image of a person in a white sleeveless top and dark shorts, holding a phone to their ear against a blue and gray background.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 17:55 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,291 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,087, response 699

Review tags

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  • dark (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
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  • phone (object, 0.80)
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Actions

  • holding phone

Colors

  • white
  • dark
  • blue
  • gray

Composition

  • waist-up
  • vertical blue section on right
  • muted background on left

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image shows a person from the waist up, wearing a white sleeveless top and dark shorts. The person holds a light-colored rectangular object (phone) to their right ear with their right hand. The background features a blue vertical section on the right and a muted grayish-brown section on the left. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation, no text, and no discernible facial features or additional props.

Description

Pixelated static image of a person in a white sleeveless top and dark shorts, holding a phone to their ear against a blue and gray 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 topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • white sleeveless top
  • dark shorts
  • blue and gray background
  • pixelated static image
  • waist-up view
  • no facial features
  • low resolution

Objects

  • phone

Style

  • pixelated
  • static

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

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  • dark shorts
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  • right hand
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  • low resolution
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  • holding phone
  • vertical blue section
  • muted background
  • white top
  • right hand holding
  • pixelated image
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 22:23 UTC
Run
61
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
20100320103334296972233
Archive entry
20100320103334296972233.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:05 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#20100320103334296972233.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20100320103334296972233.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016