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A person with dark hair and beard holds a phone to their ear, wearing a dark jacket over a light shirt, with a blurred background showing a white surface with red text.

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A person with dark hair and beard holds a phone to their ear, wearing a dark jacket over a light shirt, with a blurred background showing a white surface with red text.

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • hand raised
  • head tilted

Animation Summary

  • The person's right hand moves higher and the head tilts slightly left across frames.

Composition

  • close-up
  • cropped to upper body

Dense Caption

A person with dark hair and beard holds a phone to their ear, wearing a dark jacket over a light shirt. The background shows a blurred white surface with red text. In the top-right frame, the person's right hand is raised higher than in the top-left frame. The bottom-left frame shows the person's head tilted slightly left compared to the top frames. The image has a pixelated, low-resolution style with warm yellow and brown tones.

Description

A person with dark hair and beard holds a phone to their ear, wearing a dark jacket over a light shirt, with a blurred background showing a white surface with red text.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • aim
  • anime
  • celebrities
  • games
  • holidays
  • humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20090223184149427286049
  • 2007
  • 2016
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Metadata Supported By Image

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20090223184149427286049
  • 2007
  • 2016
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person holding phone
  • dark hair beard
  • red text background
  • pixelated animation
  • yellow tones
  • hand raised
  • head tilted
  • buddy icon animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • warm tones

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20090223184149427286049
  • 2007
  • 2016
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • anime
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive
  • celebrities
  • games
  • holidays
  • humor

Visible Text

  • red text

Wordwall

  • dark hair
  • beard
  • phone
  • dark jacket
  • light shirt
  • red text
  • yellow tones
  • pixelated
  • head tilted
  • hand raised

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090223184149427286049
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b2/b25740717ecb8af32dd3dfd26d9ecc0ca504adbb653c92aae1c2a95bdb7455e5.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 UTC
Archive ID
b25740717ecb8af3
SHA-256
b25740717ecb8af32dd3dfd26d9ecc0ca504adbb653c92aae1c2a95bdb7455e5
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 19, 2026 at 00:31 UTC
Run
1312
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000019

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 24, 2026 at 05:32 UTC
Run
1171
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:25 UTC
Run
1101
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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A person with dark hair and beard holds a phone to their ear, wearing a dark jacket over a light shirt, with a blurred background showing a white surface with red text.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 00:25 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,604 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,103, response 861

Review tags

  • hand raised (action, 0.80)
  • head tilted (action, 0.80)
  • holding phone (action, 0.80)
  • dark brown (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • phone (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • warm tones (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding phone
  • head tilted
  • hand raised

Animation

  • hand raised
  • head tilted

Animation Summary

  • The person's right hand moves higher and the head tilts slightly left across frames.

Colors

  • dark brown
  • yellow
  • red
  • light beige

Composition

  • close-up
  • cropped to upper body

Dense Caption

A person with dark hair and beard holds a phone to their ear, wearing a dark jacket over a light shirt. The background shows a blurred white surface with red text. In the top-right frame, the person's right hand is raised higher than in the top-left frame. The bottom-left frame shows the person's head tilted slightly left compared to the top frames. The image has a pixelated, low-resolution style with warm yellow and brown tones.

Description

A person with dark hair and beard holds a phone to their ear, wearing a dark jacket over a light shirt, with a blurred background showing a white surface with red text.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • aim
  • anime
  • celebrities
  • games
  • holidays
  • humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20090223184149427286049
  • 2007
  • 2016
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Metadata Supported By Image

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  • franksicons
  • 20090223184149427286049
  • 2007
  • 2016
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  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • dark hair beard
  • red text background
  • pixelated animation
  • yellow tones
  • hand raised
  • head tilted
  • buddy icon animation

Objects

  • phone

Preprocessing Notes

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  • warm tones

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • games
  • holidays
  • humor

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Subjects

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Visible Text

  • red text

Wordwall

  • dark hair
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  • phone
  • dark jacket
  • light shirt
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  • pixelated
  • head tilted
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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
20090223184149427286049
Archive entry
20090223184149427286049.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 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#20090223184149427286049.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090223184149427286049.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016