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Pixelated image of a person in a blue outfit with arms and legs spread wide, standing beneath a black banner with white text reading 'balls' on a brown background.

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Pixelated image of a person in a blue outfit with arms and legs spread wide, standing beneath a black banner with white text reading 'balls' on a brown background.

Pixelated image of a person in a blue outfit with arms and legs spread wide, standing beneath a black banner with white text reading 'balls' on a brown background. 48×48 GIF AIM b…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central figure
  • banner above
  • dark cluster left
  • ground plane below

Dense Caption

Pixelated image shows a person with brown hair wearing a blue outfit with a purple collar, arms and legs spread wide in a star-like pose. The figure stands on a light gray ground plane against a brown background. A black rectangular banner with white text reading 'balls' is positioned above the figure. The left side of the image contains a dark, irregularly shaped pixel cluster. The image uses a low-resolution, blocky rendering style with visible pixelation throughout.

Description

Pixelated image of a person in a blue outfit with arms and legs spread wide, standing beneath a black banner with white text reading 'balls' on a brown background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • 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
  • 200809110816131721981417
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person blue outfit spread arms spread legs
  • balls banner brown background
  • pixelated star pose
  • dark cluster left side

Preprocessing Notes

  • low-resolution pixel art
  • blocky rendering

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200809110816131721981417
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Visible Text

  • balls

Wordwall

  • person
  • brown hair
  • blue outfit
  • purple collar
  • arms spread wide
  • legs spread wide
  • star pose
  • black banner
  • white text
  • balls
  • brown background
  • light gray ground
  • pixelated
  • blocky rendering
  • dark cluster left

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200809110816131721981417
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a3/a37afd1fc7fb4bb6529b6fb5e918e6923d8bd2a4a88fcd7d48e005c6261dc77b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC
Archive ID
a37afd1fc7fb4bb6
SHA-256
a37afd1fc7fb4bb6529b6fb5e918e6923d8bd2a4a88fcd7d48e005c6261dc77b
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:20 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.105516

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image of a person in a blue outfit with arms and legs spread wide, standing beneath a black banner with white text reading 'balls' on a brown background.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 23:44 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,512 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,090, response 796

Review tags

  • spreading arms (action, 0.80)
  • spreading legs (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • exaggerated (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • black banner (object, 0.80)
  • dark cluster (object, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • spreading arms
  • spreading legs

Colors

  • brown
  • blue
  • purple
  • white
  • black
  • light gray

Composition

  • central figure
  • banner above
  • dark cluster left
  • ground plane below

Dense Caption

Pixelated image shows a person with brown hair wearing a blue outfit with a purple collar, arms and legs spread wide in a star-like pose. The figure stands on a light gray ground plane against a brown background. A black rectangular banner with white text reading 'balls' is positioned above the figure. The left side of the image contains a dark, irregularly shaped pixel cluster. The image uses a low-resolution, blocky rendering style with visible pixelation throughout.

Description

Pixelated image of a person in a blue outfit with arms and legs spread wide, standing beneath a black banner with white text reading 'balls' on a brown background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • 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
  • 200809110816131721981417
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Mood

  • playful
  • exaggerated

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person blue outfit spread arms spread legs
  • balls banner brown background
  • pixelated star pose
  • dark cluster left side

Objects

  • black banner
  • dark cluster

Preprocessing Notes

  • low-resolution pixel art
  • blocky rendering

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200809110816131721981417
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • balls

Wordwall

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  • brown hair
  • blue outfit
  • purple collar
  • arms spread wide
  • legs spread wide
  • star pose
  • black banner
  • white text
  • balls
  • brown background
  • light gray ground
  • pixelated
  • blocky rendering
  • dark cluster left
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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
200809110816131721981417
Archive entry
200809110816131721981417.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 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#200809110816131721981417.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200809110816131721981417.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016