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A pixelated image of a person with dark hair and a dark sleeveless top, holding a colorful object with a yellow section, against a light background.

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A pixelated image of a person with dark hair and a dark sleeveless top, holding a colorful object with a yellow section, against a light background.

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Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • person holding object
  • light background

Dense Caption

The image shows a person with dark hair and a dark sleeveless top holding a colorful object with a yellow section. The person's face is partially visible with a light background. The image is highly pixelated with a mix of colors including purple, pink, blue, and green. The object held by the person appears to have a patterned design. The person's arm is visible on the right side of the image. The overall image quality is low due to pixelation.

Description

A pixelated image of a person with dark hair and a dark sleeveless top, holding a colorful object with a yellow section, against a light 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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person holding colorful object
  • dark hair sleeveless top
  • yellow section pixelated
  • light background pixelated
  • purple pink blue green colors
  • arm visible person
  • partially visible face

Wordwall

  • dark hair
  • sleeveless top
  • yellow section
  • colorful object
  • light background
  • pixelated
  • purple
  • pink
  • blue
  • green
  • arm visible
  • partially visible face

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200907252245141577937089
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a5/a51f5766c484b906e649d65359da5ecf52f9b8d801da64c95388a894750b5c9f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 UTC
Archive ID
a51f5766c484b906
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (3)
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Assessed
August 29, 2026 at 07:28 UTC
Run
15963
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000486

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
August 6, 2026 at 00:43 UTC
Run
1269
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:21 UTC
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1135
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A pixelated image of a person with dark hair and a dark sleeveless top, holding a colorful object with a yellow section, against a light background.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 15:17 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,830 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,096, response 674

Review tags

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  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • dark (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • light (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • colorful object (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding

Colors

  • purple
  • pink
  • blue
  • green
  • yellow
  • dark
  • light

Composition

  • person holding object
  • light background

Dense Caption

The image shows a person with dark hair and a dark sleeveless top holding a colorful object with a yellow section. The person's face is partially visible with a light background. The image is highly pixelated with a mix of colors including purple, pink, blue, and green. The object held by the person appears to have a patterned design. The person's arm is visible on the right side of the image. The overall image quality is low due to pixelation.

Description

A pixelated image of a person with dark hair and a dark sleeveless top, holding a colorful object with a yellow section, against a light 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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person holding colorful object
  • dark hair sleeveless top
  • yellow section pixelated
  • light background pixelated
  • purple pink blue green colors
  • arm visible person
  • partially visible face

Objects

  • colorful object

Style

  • pixelated

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

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  • sleeveless top
  • yellow section
  • colorful object
  • light background
  • pixelated
  • purple
  • pink
  • blue
  • green
  • arm visible
  • partially visible face
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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
200907252245141577937089
Archive entry
200907252245141577937089.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 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#200907252245141577937089.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200907252245141577937089.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016