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A person with long dark hair and light skin holds a bright glowing object near their chest in a static pose.

A person with long dark hair and light skin holds a bright glowing object near their chest in a static pose. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sh…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered subject
  • plain background

Dense Caption

A person with long dark hair and light skin holds a bright glowing object near their chest. The object emits a strong light, creating a bright halo effect around the hands and chest area. The background is a plain light color. The person's mouth is slightly open in a neutral expression. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated appearance with visible compression artifacts.

Description

  • A person with long dark hair and light skin holds a bright glowing object near their chest in a static pose.

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 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person holding glowing object
  • low-resolution pixelated image
  • neutral expression
  • bright halo effect
  • plain light background

Preprocessing Notes

  • low-resolution
  • pixelated
  • compression artifacts

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

  • long dark hair
  • light skin
  • glowing object
  • bright halo
  • neutral expression
  • low-resolution
  • pixelated
  • compression artifacts
  • plain light background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090922161256301894211
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ab/ab720255f0ab13004187444f31ddfd06efb2e2d3d699f348cd625be29056cf77.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 UTC
Archive ID
ab720255f0ab1300
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 8, 2026 at 19:36 UTC
Run
1275
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
0.016086

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:57 UTC
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107
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A person with long dark hair and light skin holds a bright glowing object near their chest in a static pose.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 18:11 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,622 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 710

Review tags

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  • dark brown (color, 0.80)
  • light beige (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • glowing object (object, 0.80)
  • glowing effect (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding

Colors

  • dark brown
  • light beige
  • bright white
  • light gray

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered subject
  • plain background

Dense Caption

A person with long dark hair and light skin holds a bright glowing object near their chest. The object emits a strong light, creating a bright halo effect around the hands and chest area. The background is a plain light color. The person's mouth is slightly open in a neutral expression. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated appearance with visible compression artifacts.

Description

  • A person with long dark hair and light skin holds a bright glowing object near their chest in a static pose.

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 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

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person holding glowing object
  • low-resolution pixelated image
  • neutral expression
  • bright halo effect
  • plain light background

Objects

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Preprocessing Notes

  • low-resolution
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Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
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  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

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Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

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  • glowing object
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  • neutral expression
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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
20090922161256301894211
Archive entry
20090922161256301894211.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 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#20090922161256301894211.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090922161256301894211.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016