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Pixelated close-up of a person with short dark hair against a blue background, wearing dark clothing and holding a microphone near the mouth.

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Pixelated close-up of a person with short dark hair against a blue background, wearing dark clothing and holding a microphone near the mouth.

Pixelated close-up of a person with short dark hair against a blue background, wearing dark clothing and holding a microphone near the mouth. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Interne…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • side profile
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Pixelated close-up of a person with short dark hair against a blue background. The person wears dark clothing and holds a microphone near the mouth. The image shows a side profile with the head turned left to right. The person has a light skin tone and visible facial features including eyes, nose, and mouth. The background is solid blue with no additional elements. The image uses a low-resolution pixelated rendering style with visible blocky pixels.

Description

Pixelated close-up of a person with short dark hair against a blue background, wearing dark clothing and holding a microphone near the mouth.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 201001081716521796787922

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person holding microphone
  • blue background pixelated
  • side profile microphone
  • low-resolution pixelated person

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original dimensions

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • blue background
  • dark hair
  • microphone
  • side profile
  • light skin
  • dark clothing
  • low-resolution
  • blocky pixels
  • facial features

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
201001081716521796787922
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/9c/9c03146ed8bebd580cdab45d9d0c52d90a10c9fc681aaf86e795acfad4bafc04.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 UTC
Archive ID
9c03146ed8bebd58
SHA-256
9c03146ed8bebd580cdab45d9d0c52d90a10c9fc681aaf86e795acfad4bafc04
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:16 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.090509

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated close-up of a person with short dark hair against a blue background, wearing dark clothing and holding a microphone near the mouth.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 16:08 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,215 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,088, response 692

Review tags

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  • speaking (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • dark (color, 0.80)
  • light (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • microphone (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding
  • speaking

Colors

  • blue
  • dark
  • light

Composition

  • close-up
  • side profile
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Pixelated close-up of a person with short dark hair against a blue background. The person wears dark clothing and holds a microphone near the mouth. The image shows a side profile with the head turned left to right. The person has a light skin tone and visible facial features including eyes, nose, and mouth. The background is solid blue with no additional elements. The image uses a low-resolution pixelated rendering style with visible blocky pixels.

Description

Pixelated close-up of a person with short dark hair against a blue background, wearing dark clothing and holding a microphone near the mouth.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 201001081716521796787922

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person holding microphone
  • blue background pixelated
  • side profile microphone
  • low-resolution pixelated person

Objects

  • microphone

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original dimensions

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

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  • dark hair
  • microphone
  • side profile
  • light skin
  • dark clothing
  • low-resolution
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 21:54 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
201001081716521796787922
Archive entry
201001081716521796787922.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 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#201001081716521796787922.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#201001081716521796787922.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016