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A pixelated image shows a person with dark hair wearing a dark shirt, holding a light-colored object against a blurred background.

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A pixelated image shows a person with dark hair wearing a dark shirt, holding a light-colored object against a blurred background.

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered subject
  • blurred background

Dense Caption

The image is a low-resolution, pixelated static icon. A person with dark hair and a dark shirt is visible. The person's hands hold a light-colored object with a pinkish hue. The background is blurred with indistinct shapes and colors including light blue and dark tones. The image has a grainy texture and lacks sharp detail.

Description

  • A pixelated image shows a person with dark hair wearing a dark shirt, holding a light-colored object against a blurred 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 200708291201241544824089

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person dark hair dark shirt
  • person holding light object
  • blurred background light blue
  • grainy texture low resolution

Preprocessing Notes

  • pixelation
  • graininess

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson: franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • untrustedSourceHintsJson: 2007-2016
  • untrustedSourceHintsJson: franksicons
  • untrustedSourceHintsJson: 200708291201241544824089
  • untrustedSourceHintsJson: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • dark hair
  • dark shirt
  • light-colored object
  • pinkish hue
  • blurred background
  • grainy texture
  • low-resolution
  • indistinct shapes
  • light blue background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708291201241544824089
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a2/a216b8363c868adb44271f32f6d51aef470cf7845cb7b563476b6b7a8e257bdb.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 UTC
Archive ID
a216b8363c868adb
SHA-256
a216b8363c868adb44271f32f6d51aef470cf7845cb7b563476b6b7a8e257bdb
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:19 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.100346

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A pixelated image shows a person with dark hair wearing a dark shirt, holding a light-colored object against a blurred background.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 07:02 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,480 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,092, response 747

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • dark brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • light colored object (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding

Colors

  • dark brown
  • black
  • light blue
  • pink
  • gray

Composition

  • centered subject
  • blurred background

Dense Caption

The image is a low-resolution, pixelated static icon. A person with dark hair and a dark shirt is visible. The person's hands hold a light-colored object with a pinkish hue. The background is blurred with indistinct shapes and colors including light blue and dark tones. The image has a grainy texture and lacks sharp detail.

Description

  • A pixelated image shows a person with dark hair wearing a dark shirt, holding a light-colored object against a blurred 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 200708291201241544824089

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person dark hair dark shirt
  • person holding light object
  • blurred background light blue
  • grainy texture low resolution

Objects

  • light-colored object

Preprocessing Notes

  • pixelation
  • graininess

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • untrustedSourceHintsJson: 2007-2016
  • untrustedSourceHintsJson: franksicons
  • untrustedSourceHintsJson: 200708291201241544824089
  • untrustedSourceHintsJson: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

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  • dark hair
  • dark shirt
  • light-colored object
  • pinkish hue
  • blurred background
  • grainy texture
  • low-resolution
  • indistinct shapes
  • light blue background
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 13:33 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
Raw JSON
Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
200708291201241544824089
Archive entry
200708291201241544824089.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 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#200708291201241544824089.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708291201241544824089.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016