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A person in a dark top and light shorts holds a bright light source, with orange and red shapes in the background.

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A person in a dark top and light shorts holds a bright light source, with orange and red shapes in the background.

A person in a dark top and light shorts holds a bright light source, with orange and red shapes in the background. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIc…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • light source intensity changes

Animation Summary

  • The light source held by the person changes intensity across observations, creating a flickering effect.

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • bottom-right solid light gray

Dense Caption

The image shows a person wearing a dark short-sleeved top and light-colored shorts. The person holds a bright light source in their right hand, casting a strong glow. Orange and red shapes are visible in the background. The image is divided into four quadrants, with the bottom-right quadrant being a solid light gray color. The light source appears to be a flashlight or similar device. The person's face is not visible in the image. The background includes a light-colored surface with some darker areas. The overall image has a pixelated appearance.

Description

  • A person in a dark top and light shorts holds a bright light source, with orange and red shapes in the background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • 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
  • 200907231200071238686490

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person holding light source
  • orange and red shapes background
  • light gray quadrant
  • pixelated image

Preprocessing Notes

  • image divided into four quadrants with bottom-right solid light gray

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
  • dark top
  • light shorts
  • bright light source
  • orange shapes
  • red shapes
  • light gray quadrant
  • pixelated

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200907231200071238686490
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/bf/bfec31c16670c423bb9001b4930746e4507c08e4d187bc361b44bf930939af67.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 UTC
Archive ID
bfec31c16670c423
SHA-256
bfec31c16670c423bb9001b4930746e4507c08e4d187bc361b44bf930939af67
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 8, 2026 at 22:36 UTC
Run
1275
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.287670

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:36 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.091550

OpenAI category scores

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A person in a dark top and light shorts holds a bright light source, with orange and red shapes in the background.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 15:09 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,363 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 796

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • illuminating (action, 0.80)
  • bright (color, 0.80)
  • dark (color, 0.80)
  • light (color, 0.80)
  • mysterious (mood, 0.80)
  • light gray quadrant (object, 0.80)
  • light source (object, 0.80)
  • orange shapes (object, 0.80)
  • red shapes (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding
  • illuminating

Animation

  • light source intensity changes

Animation Summary

  • The light source held by the person changes intensity across observations, creating a flickering effect.

Colors

  • dark
  • light
  • bright
  • orange
  • red
  • light gray

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • bottom-right solid light gray

Dense Caption

The image shows a person wearing a dark short-sleeved top and light-colored shorts. The person holds a bright light source in their right hand, casting a strong glow. Orange and red shapes are visible in the background. The image is divided into four quadrants, with the bottom-right quadrant being a solid light gray color. The light source appears to be a flashlight or similar device. The person's face is not visible in the image. The background includes a light-colored surface with some darker areas. The overall image has a pixelated appearance.

Description

  • A person in a dark top and light shorts holds a bright light source, with orange and red shapes in the background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • 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
  • 200907231200071238686490

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • mysterious

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person holding light source
  • orange and red shapes background
  • light gray quadrant
  • pixelated image

Objects

  • light source
  • orange shapes
  • red shapes
  • light gray quadrant

Preprocessing Notes

  • image divided into four quadrants with bottom-right solid light gray

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

Style

  • pixelated

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • person
  • dark top
  • light shorts
  • bright light source
  • orange shapes
  • red shapes
  • light gray quadrant
  • pixelated
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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
200907231200071238686490
Archive entry
200907231200071238686490.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 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#200907231200071238686490.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200907231200071238686490.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016