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A pixelated image shows a figure with dark hair and light skin holding a glowing object against a purple background.

A pixelated image shows a figure with dark hair and light skin holding a glowing object against a purple background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sha…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • figure on left
  • glowing object on right
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The image is highly pixelated. A figure with dark brown or black hair occupies the left side, facing right. The figure has light skin tone. On the right side of the composition, there is a bright white-yellow glow that appears to be held by the figure's hand. The background consists of purple and blue hues. There are no visible facial features due to pixelation. No text or additional objects are present in the image.

Description

  • A pixelated image shows a figure with dark hair and light skin holding a glowing object against a purple 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 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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 2008011413321581771924

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated figure holding glowing object purple background
  • dark hair light skin pixel art

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • dark hair
  • light skin
  • glowing object
  • purple background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2008011413321581771924
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:10 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/c2/c2ba86c00cb1efc93fd6b643842d3666ec70c7d299c08c8551d6cd339312c9b8.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:10 UTC
Archive ID
c2ba86c00cb1efc9
SHA-256
c2ba86c00cb1efc93fd6b643842d3666ec70c7d299c08c8551d6cd339312c9b8
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:38 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.123995

OpenAI category scores

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A pixelated image shows a figure with dark hair and light skin holding a glowing object against a purple background.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 10:26 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,093 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,089, response 614

Review tags

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  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • dark brown (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • figure with dark hair (subject, 0.80)
  • glowing object (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding

Colors

  • purple
  • blue
  • white
  • yellow
  • light brown
  • dark brown

Composition

  • figure on left
  • glowing object on right
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The image is highly pixelated. A figure with dark brown or black hair occupies the left side, facing right. The figure has light skin tone. On the right side of the composition, there is a bright white-yellow glow that appears to be held by the figure's hand. The background consists of purple and blue hues. There are no visible facial features due to pixelation. No text or additional objects are present in the image.

Description

  • A pixelated image shows a figure with dark hair and light skin holding a glowing object against a purple 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 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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 2008011413321581771924

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated figure holding glowing object purple background
  • dark hair light skin pixel art

Objects

  • glowing object

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • figure with dark hair
  • glowing object

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • dark hair
  • light skin
  • glowing object
  • purple background
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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
2008011413321581771924
Archive entry
2008011413321581771924.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:10 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#2008011413321581771924.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2008011413321581771924.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016