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Pixelated image of a person in a white shirt holding a dark object near their face, with blurred background elements.

Pixelated image of a person in a white shirt holding a dark object near their face, with blurred background elements. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sh…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Actions

  • raising arm

Composition

  • profile view
  • centered figure
  • light background

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated figure with dark hair wearing a light gray or white short-sleeve shirt. The figure is positioned in profile, facing right, with one arm raised to hold a small dark object near their face. The background consists of light-colored, indistinct shapes suggesting an interior space. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation, and the figure's facial features are not distinguishable. The overall color palette includes shades of gray, white, and brown. The figure's posture suggests a casual or conversational pose.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person in a white shirt holding a dark object near their face, with blurred background elements.

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 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070824223339137189642

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person holding object
  • profile pose raised arm
  • low resolution figure
  • gray shirt dark hair

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution

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

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  • pixelated figure
  • dark hair
  • light gray shirt
  • profile pose
  • raised arm
  • dark object near face
  • light background
  • low resolution
  • indistinct shapes
  • casual pose

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070824223339137189642
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.5 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/d7/d77b2e5b7decb7b0456301a48d456db3066cf2306dfa64a21a2a5c0d5e9fc87e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC
Archive ID
d77b2e5b7decb7b0
SHA-256
d77b2e5b7decb7b0456301a48d456db3066cf2306dfa64a21a2a5c0d5e9fc87e
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:49 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.134957

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated image of a person in a white shirt holding a dark object near their face, with blurred background elements.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 04:59 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,578 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,090, response 805

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • raising arm (action, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • dark object (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding
  • raising arm

Colors

  • gray
  • white
  • brown
  • dark

Composition

  • profile view
  • centered figure
  • light background

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated figure with dark hair wearing a light gray or white short-sleeve shirt. The figure is positioned in profile, facing right, with one arm raised to hold a small dark object near their face. The background consists of light-colored, indistinct shapes suggesting an interior space. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation, and the figure's facial features are not distinguishable. The overall color palette includes shades of gray, white, and brown. The figure's posture suggests a casual or conversational pose.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person in a white shirt holding a dark object near their face, with blurred background elements.

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 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070824223339137189642

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person holding object
  • profile pose raised arm
  • low resolution figure
  • gray shirt dark hair

Objects

  • dark object

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • 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
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • pixelated figure
  • dark hair
  • light gray shirt
  • profile pose
  • raised arm
  • dark object near face
  • light background
  • low resolution
  • indistinct shapes
  • casual pose
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 12:59 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
Raw JSON
Source semantic tags (2)
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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
20070824223339137189642
Archive entry
20070824223339137189642.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 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#20070824223339137189642.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070824223339137189642.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016