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Pixelated image of a person with long brown hair wearing a light-colored top, holding a dark rectangular object against a checkered background.

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Pixelated image of a person with long brown hair wearing a light-colored top, holding a dark rectangular object against a checkered background.

Pixelated image of a person with long brown hair wearing a light-colored top, holding a dark rectangular object against a checkered background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Inter…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered figure
  • checkered background

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated figure with long brown hair and a light-colored top. The figure holds a dark rectangular object in the right hand. The background features a checkered pattern with alternating dark and light squares. The figure's mouth is open, suggesting speech or expression. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics. The figure's left hand is partially visible near the lower right. The overall color palette includes shades of brown, beige, and dark gray.

Description

Pixelated image of a person with long brown hair wearing a light-colored top, holding a dark rectangular object against a checkered background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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
  • 200708270937271773832670

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person holding dark object
  • checkered background pixelated
  • long brown hair beige top
  • open mouth pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • low-resolution
  • pixelated

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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  • long brown hair
  • light-colored top
  • dark rectangular object
  • checkered background
  • open mouth
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • beige
  • dark gray
  • brown

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708270937271773832670
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/db/dbbd1c2d53e218a1fa04bb35aec7b41698628110ec69deca4d418d00effdb22e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC
Archive ID
dbbd1c2d53e218a1
SHA-256
dbbd1c2d53e218a1fa04bb35aec7b41698628110ec69deca4d418d00effdb22e
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 11, 2026 at 21:48 UTC
Run
1284
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.023314

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:51 UTC
Run
1140
Input
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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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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated image of a person with long brown hair wearing a light-colored top, holding a dark rectangular object against a checkered background.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 06:03 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,070 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,087, response 718

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • speaking (action, 0.80)
  • beige (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark gray (color, 0.80)
  • expressive (mood, 0.80)
  • dark rectangular object (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding
  • speaking

Colors

  • brown
  • beige
  • dark gray

Composition

  • centered figure
  • checkered background

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated figure with long brown hair and a light-colored top. The figure holds a dark rectangular object in the right hand. The background features a checkered pattern with alternating dark and light squares. The figure's mouth is open, suggesting speech or expression. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics. The figure's left hand is partially visible near the lower right. The overall color palette includes shades of brown, beige, and dark gray.

Description

Pixelated image of a person with long brown hair wearing a light-colored top, holding a dark rectangular object against a checkered background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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
  • 200708270937271773832670

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Mood

  • expressive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person holding dark object
  • checkered background pixelated
  • long brown hair beige top
  • open mouth pixel art

Objects

  • dark rectangular object

Preprocessing Notes

  • low-resolution
  • pixelated

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
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

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  • light-colored top
  • dark rectangular object
  • checkered background
  • open mouth
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • beige
  • dark gray
  • brown
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 13:17 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)
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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
200708270937271773832670
Archive entry
200708270937271773832670.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#200708270937271773832670.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708270937271773832670.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016