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Pixelated image of a person in a dark blue shirt with light blue patterns, holding a phone to their ear against a dark background with horizontal light stripes.

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Pixelated image of a person in a dark blue shirt with light blue patterns, holding a phone to their ear against a dark background with horizontal light stripes.

Pixelated image of a person in a dark blue shirt with light blue patterns, holding a phone to their ear against a dark background with horizontal light stripes. 48×48 GIF AIM budd…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • person centered
  • horizontal light stripes in background
  • right arm extended

Dense Caption

Pixelated static image shows a person with short brown hair wearing a dark blue shirt with light blue patterns. The person holds a light-colored object (phone) to their right ear. Background features dark tones with horizontal light stripes. Visible elements include the person's right arm, shoulder, and face. No text or symbols are visible. Image has low resolution with blocky pixels.

Description

Pixelated image of a person in a dark blue shirt with light blue patterns, holding a phone to their ear against a dark background with horizontal light stripes.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200806191136062090535501

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person holding phone
  • dark blue shirt light blue patterns
  • horizontal light stripes background
  • pixelated static image
  • right arm extended
  • low resolution
  • dark tones background
  • blocky pixels

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled

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

  • person
  • phone
  • dark blue shirt
  • light blue patterns
  • short brown hair
  • horizontal light stripes
  • pixelated
  • static
  • right arm
  • face
  • dark background
  • light-colored object
  • blocky pixels
  • shoulder
  • holding phone
  • horizontal stripes
  • low resolution
  • dark tones
  • light stripes
  • right ear

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200806191136062090535501
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:30 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ae/ae955b023c25d8f1d420b3acf30dde1f2fcad32bc8b2b60a3bbcb40e237aaaee.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:30 UTC
Archive ID
ae955b023c25d8f1
SHA-256
ae955b023c25d8f1d420b3acf30dde1f2fcad32bc8b2b60a3bbcb40e237aaaee
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:26 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.078382

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image of a person in a dark blue shirt with light blue patterns, holding a phone to their ear against a dark background with horizontal light stripes.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 07:10 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,280 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,086, response 883

Review tags

  • holding phone (action, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • dark tones (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • light stripes (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • phone (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding phone

Colors

  • dark blue
  • light blue
  • brown
  • dark tones
  • light stripes

Composition

  • person centered
  • horizontal light stripes in background
  • right arm extended

Dense Caption

Pixelated static image shows a person with short brown hair wearing a dark blue shirt with light blue patterns. The person holds a light-colored object (phone) to their right ear. Background features dark tones with horizontal light stripes. Visible elements include the person's right arm, shoulder, and face. No text or symbols are visible. Image has low resolution with blocky pixels.

Description

Pixelated image of a person in a dark blue shirt with light blue patterns, holding a phone to their ear against a dark background with horizontal light stripes.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200806191136062090535501

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person holding phone
  • dark blue shirt light blue patterns
  • horizontal light stripes background
  • pixelated static image
  • right arm extended
  • low resolution
  • dark tones background
  • blocky pixels

Objects

  • phone

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled

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
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  • 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

  • person
  • phone
  • dark blue shirt
  • light blue patterns
  • short brown hair
  • horizontal light stripes
  • pixelated
  • static
  • right arm
  • face
  • dark background
  • light-colored object
  • blocky pixels
  • shoulder
  • holding phone
  • horizontal stripes
  • low resolution
  • dark tones
  • light stripes
  • right ear
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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
200806191136062090535501
Archive entry
200806191136062090535501.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:30 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#200806191136062090535501.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200806191136062090535501.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016