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Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with short hair, hand near face, two identical frames side-by-side.

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Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with short hair, hand near face, two identical frames side-by-side.

Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with short hair, hand near face, two identical frames side-by-side. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static frame comparison

Composition

  • two side-by-side frames
  • centered subject
  • indistinct background

Dense Caption

Two adjacent black-and-white pixelated images show the same figure: short dark hair, hand raised to cheek area, mouth slightly open. Left frame has faint white shape in upper-left corner; right frame lacks this detail. Both figures wear light-colored clothing with visible collar and shoulder lines. Background is indistinct grayscale pattern. Pixelation suggests low-resolution source.

Description

  • Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with short hair, hand near face, two identical frames side-by-side.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200804021502581631032542

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • black-and-white pixelated person hand near face
  • two identical frames side-by-side
  • light clothing short hair
  • faint white shape left frame

Wordwall

  • black-and-white
  • pixelated
  • short hair
  • hand near face
  • two identical frames
  • light clothing
  • faint white shape left frame

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200804021502581631032542
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.2 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/bd/bd2e9c793d9814b4d9677d9ea72ac25d00a61c5f073913b0336d286f2c35a1a1.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 UTC
Archive ID
bd2e9c793d9814b4
SHA-256
bd2e9c793d9814b4d9677d9ea72ac25d00a61c5f073913b0336d286f2c35a1a1
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:35 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.098622

OpenAI category scores

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Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with short hair, hand near face, two identical frames side-by-side.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 22:25 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
16,477 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,149, response 607

Review tags

  • hand raised to cheek (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • static frame comparison (other, 0.80)
  • monochrome (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • hand raised to cheek

Animation

  • static frame comparison

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • two side-by-side frames
  • centered subject
  • indistinct background

Dense Caption

Two adjacent black-and-white pixelated images show the same figure: short dark hair, hand raised to cheek area, mouth slightly open. Left frame has faint white shape in upper-left corner; right frame lacks this detail. Both figures wear light-colored clothing with visible collar and shoulder lines. Background is indistinct grayscale pattern. Pixelation suggests low-resolution source.

Description

  • Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with short hair, hand near face, two identical frames side-by-side.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200804021502581631032542

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • black-and-white pixelated person hand near face
  • two identical frames side-by-side
  • light clothing short hair
  • faint white shape left frame

Style

  • pixelated
  • monochrome

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • black-and-white
  • pixelated
  • short hair
  • hand near face
  • two identical frames
  • light clothing
  • faint white shape left frame
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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
200804021502581631032542
Archive entry
200804021502581631032542.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 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#200804021502581631032542.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200804021502581631032542.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016