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A pixelated image of a person with light blue hair wearing a purple top, holding a pink 'UNIQUE' sign, with visible text and color details.

A pixelated image of a person with light blue hair wearing a purple top, holding a pink 'UNIQUE' sign, with visible text and color details. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • eyes close
  • head tilt

Animation Summary

  • The person holds a 'UNIQUE' sign, with eyes closing and head tilting across frames.

Composition

  • centered subject
  • gradient background

Dense Caption

The image shows a person with light blue hair and a purple top holding a pink 'UNIQUE' sign. The sign is positioned above the person's head. The image has a pixelated quality. The person's expression changes across frames: in the top-left frame, the person is smiling with eyes open; in the top-right frame, the person is smiling with eyes closed; in the bottom-left frame, the person is smiling with eyes open and the head is tilted slightly. The background is a gradient of light blue and white. The image has a soft, pastel color palette with pink, purple, and light blue tones.

Description

  • A pixelated image of a person with light blue hair wearing a purple top, holding a pink 'UNIQUE' sign, with visible text and color details.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20090227150709176480177

Metadata Supported By Image

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • light blue hair purple top
  • UNIQUE sign smiling
  • pixelated pastel animation
  • eyes closed head tilt

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be upscaled

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 topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • UNIQUE

Wordwall

  • light blue hair
  • purple top
  • pink 'UNIQUE' sign
  • smiling expression
  • eyes open
  • eyes closed
  • head tilted
  • pixelated
  • pastel color palette
  • gradient background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090227150709176480177
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
50×50 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/cd/cd278f2690e2da6ea62bf20c8e3fa602ccf2f31234fbdd880204103be10b27d5.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 UTC
Archive ID
cd278f2690e2da6e
SHA-256
cd278f2690e2da6ea62bf20c8e3fa602ccf2f31234fbdd880204103be10b27d5
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 6, 2026 at 17:47 UTC
Run
1272
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.002810

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:43 UTC
Run
1140
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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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A pixelated image of a person with light blue hair wearing a purple top, holding a pink 'UNIQUE' sign, with visible text and color details.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 00:45 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,820 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 858

Review tags

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  • eyes open (action, 0.80)
  • head tilted (action, 0.80)
  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • unique sign (object, 0.80)
  • pastel (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding
  • smiling
  • eyes open
  • eyes closed
  • head tilted

Animation

  • eyes close
  • head tilt

Animation Summary

  • The person holds a 'UNIQUE' sign, with eyes closing and head tilting across frames.

Colors

  • light blue
  • purple
  • pink
  • white

Composition

  • centered subject
  • gradient background

Dense Caption

The image shows a person with light blue hair and a purple top holding a pink 'UNIQUE' sign. The sign is positioned above the person's head. The image has a pixelated quality. The person's expression changes across frames: in the top-left frame, the person is smiling with eyes open; in the top-right frame, the person is smiling with eyes closed; in the bottom-left frame, the person is smiling with eyes open and the head is tilted slightly. The background is a gradient of light blue and white. The image has a soft, pastel color palette with pink, purple, and light blue tones.

Description

  • A pixelated image of a person with light blue hair wearing a purple top, holding a pink 'UNIQUE' sign, with visible text and color details.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20090227150709176480177

Metadata Supported By Image

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

Mood

  • happy
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • light blue hair purple top
  • UNIQUE sign smiling
  • pixelated pastel animation
  • eyes closed head tilt

Objects

  • 'UNIQUE' sign

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be upscaled

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 topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • pastel

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • UNIQUE

Wordwall

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  • purple top
  • pink 'UNIQUE' sign
  • smiling expression
  • eyes open
  • eyes closed
  • head tilted
  • pixelated
  • pastel color palette
  • gradient 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
20090227150709176480177
Archive entry
20090227150709176480177.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#20090227150709176480177.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090227150709176480177.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016