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A blurry animated icon shows a figure in a blue top and brown pants with a bright light source on the right side, transitioning between two states.

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A blurry animated icon shows a figure in a blue top and brown pants with a bright light source on the right side, transitioning between two states.

A blurry animated icon shows a figure in a blue top and brown pants with a bright light source on the right side, transitioning between two states. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy ic…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • right arm movement

Animation Summary

  • The icon transitions between two states: one with the figure's right arm raised and one with the right arm lowered.

Composition

  • figure on left
  • light source on right
  • dark background

Dense Caption

The icon displays a figure wearing a blue top and brown pants. The figure's pose changes between two states: in the first state, the figure's right arm is raised; in the second state, the right arm is lowered. A bright light source dominates the right side of the frame. The background is dark. The image has a pixelated, low-resolution appearance. The figure's face is partially visible with a red mouth. A small green pixel cluster appears on the left side of the frame. The animation shows a transition between these two states.

Description

A blurry animated icon shows a figure in a blue top and brown pants with a bright light source on the right side, transitioning between two states.

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.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200909291642471952643628

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue top brown pants animation
  • bright light source dark background
  • green pixel cluster red mouth
  • right arm raised lowered animation
  • pixelated low-resolution animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • low-resolution
  • pixelated
  • blurry

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

Subjects

  • figure

Wordwall

  • blue top
  • brown pants
  • bright light source
  • dark background
  • pixelated
  • green pixel cluster
  • red mouth
  • right arm raised
  • right arm lowered

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200909291642471952643628
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 UTC

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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/d6/d6789fa121ee979d09e42341e1bb6249fc7a667f5523dbbab9afcbef7f35c9ac.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 UTC
Archive ID
d6789fa121ee979d
SHA-256
d6789fa121ee979d09e42341e1bb6249fc7a667f5523dbbab9afcbef7f35c9ac
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:48 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.096519

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.903481onnx/unsafe0.096519onnx/nsfw0.054328onnx/nsfl0.042191
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A blurry animated icon shows a figure in a blue top and brown pants with a bright light source on the right side, transitioning between two states.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 18:30 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,668 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 834

Review tags

  • right arm lowered (action, 0.80)
  • right arm raised (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • mysterious (mood, 0.80)
  • bright light source (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • figure (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • right arm raised
  • right arm lowered

Animation

  • right arm movement

Animation Summary

  • The icon transitions between two states: one with the figure's right arm raised and one with the right arm lowered.

Colors

  • blue
  • brown
  • red
  • green
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • figure on left
  • light source on right
  • dark background

Dense Caption

The icon displays a figure wearing a blue top and brown pants. The figure's pose changes between two states: in the first state, the figure's right arm is raised; in the second state, the right arm is lowered. A bright light source dominates the right side of the frame. The background is dark. The image has a pixelated, low-resolution appearance. The figure's face is partially visible with a red mouth. A small green pixel cluster appears on the left side of the frame. The animation shows a transition between these two states.

Description

A blurry animated icon shows a figure in a blue top and brown pants with a bright light source on the right side, transitioning between two states.

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.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200909291642471952643628

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • mysterious

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue top brown pants animation
  • bright light source dark background
  • green pixel cluster red mouth
  • right arm raised lowered animation
  • pixelated low-resolution animation

Objects

  • bright light source

Preprocessing Notes

  • low-resolution
  • pixelated
  • blurry

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • figure

Wordwall

  • blue top
  • brown pants
  • bright light source
  • dark background
  • pixelated
  • green pixel cluster
  • red mouth
  • right arm raised
  • right arm lowered
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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
200909291642471952643628
Archive entry
200909291642471952643628.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 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#200909291642471952643628.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200909291642471952643628.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016