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Pixelated image of a person holding a white object with small dark squares, wearing a dark top and light-colored pants, against a blurred background.

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Pixelated image of a person holding a white object with small dark squares, wearing a dark top and light-colored pants, against a blurred background.

Pixelated image of a person holding a white object with small dark squares, wearing a dark top and light-colored pants, against a blurred background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • person holding object
  • blurred background

Dense Caption

Pixelated image shows a person holding a white rectangular object with small dark squares arranged in a grid pattern. The person wears a dark top and light-colored pants. The background is blurred with indistinct shapes and colors including brown, blue, and white. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation. No text or distinct symbols are visible. The person's face is partially visible with light skin tone. The object held appears to be a small device or item with a grid of dark squares. The background includes a mix of brown tones and lighter areas suggesting an indoor setting.

Description

Pixelated image of a person holding a white object with small dark squares, wearing a dark top and light-colored pants, against a blurred 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 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
  • 200906221837591019034510

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person holding white grid object
  • pixelated image brown background
  • white grid object dark squares
  • blurred background pixelated image

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution

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

  • pixelated
  • white grid object
  • dark top
  • light pants
  • blurred background
  • brown tones
  • blue accents
  • light skin
  • grid of dark squares
  • indistinct shapes

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200906221837591019034510
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 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/ba/ba7ae6401386c8a170363192f295226c4f79e55341bdb8674c6416b7acdc6c46.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 UTC
Archive ID
ba7ae6401386c8a1
SHA-256
ba7ae6401386c8a170363192f295226c4f79e55341bdb8674c6416b7acdc6c46
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:33 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.091053

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image of a person holding a white object with small dark squares, wearing a dark top and light-colored pants, against a blurred background.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 12:56 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,522 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,093, response 820

Review tags

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  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark (color, 0.80)
  • light (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding

Colors

  • brown
  • blue
  • white
  • dark
  • light

Composition

  • person holding object
  • blurred background

Dense Caption

Pixelated image shows a person holding a white rectangular object with small dark squares arranged in a grid pattern. The person wears a dark top and light-colored pants. The background is blurred with indistinct shapes and colors including brown, blue, and white. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation. No text or distinct symbols are visible. The person's face is partially visible with light skin tone. The object held appears to be a small device or item with a grid of dark squares. The background includes a mix of brown tones and lighter areas suggesting an indoor setting.

Description

Pixelated image of a person holding a white object with small dark squares, wearing a dark top and light-colored pants, against a blurred 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 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
  • 200906221837591019034510

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person holding white grid object
  • pixelated image brown background
  • white grid object dark squares
  • blurred background pixelated image

Objects

  • white grid object

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • 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

  • pixelated
  • white grid object
  • dark top
  • light pants
  • blurred background
  • brown tones
  • blue accents
  • light skin
  • grid of dark squares
  • indistinct shapes
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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
200906221837591019034510
Archive entry
200906221837591019034510.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 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#200906221837591019034510.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200906221837591019034510.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016