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Pixelated image of a person in blue clothing with black collar and yellow sleeve accent, standing beside color swatches and abstract shapes.

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Pixelated image of a person in blue clothing with black collar and yellow sleeve accent, standing beside color swatches and abstract shapes.

Pixelated image of a person in blue clothing with black collar and yellow sleeve accent, standing beside color swatches and abstract shapes. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • figure on left
  • swatches and shapes on right
  • vertical layout

Dense Caption

The icon shows a pixelated figure wearing a blue zip-up jacket with a black inner collar and a yellow stripe on the right sleeve. The figure has dark hair and is positioned against a light background. To the right of the figure are vertical columns of colored squares in shades of blue, green, yellow, and beige. Below these swatches are abstract pixelated shapes resembling stylized clouds or smoke in blue tones and a curved gray line with brown accents. The image uses low-resolution pixel art rendering with visible dithering.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person in blue clothing with black collar and yellow sleeve accent, standing beside color swatches and abstract shapes.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation file-name (gallery): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • observation title (gallery): 200801302327201711072805
  • observation file-name (gallery): 200801302327201711072805

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue jacket yellow stripe
  • color swatch grid pixel art
  • abstract shapes blue gray
  • pixelated figure dark hair

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • blue zip-up jacket
  • black inner collar
  • yellow sleeve stripe
  • dark hair
  • color swatches
  • abstract blue shapes
  • gray curved line
  • pixelated figure

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200801302327201711072805
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:12 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/de/de3c3c9521ac8e75c79bbf1373170a381595bb82cee171508541200f09ef4422.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:12 UTC
Archive ID
de3c3c9521ac8e75
SHA-256
de3c3c9521ac8e75c79bbf1373170a381595bb82cee171508541200f09ef4422
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:53 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.096121

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image of a person in blue clothing with black collar and yellow sleeve accent, standing beside color swatches and abstract shapes.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 13:52 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,355 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,092, response 796

Review tags

  • beige (color, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • abstract pixel art shapes (object, 0.80)
  • dithered rendering (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • black
  • yellow
  • beige
  • green
  • gray
  • brown

Composition

  • figure on left
  • swatches and shapes on right
  • vertical layout

Dense Caption

The icon shows a pixelated figure wearing a blue zip-up jacket with a black inner collar and a yellow stripe on the right sleeve. The figure has dark hair and is positioned against a light background. To the right of the figure are vertical columns of colored squares in shades of blue, green, yellow, and beige. Below these swatches are abstract pixelated shapes resembling stylized clouds or smoke in blue tones and a curved gray line with brown accents. The image uses low-resolution pixel art rendering with visible dithering.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person in blue clothing with black collar and yellow sleeve accent, standing beside color swatches and abstract shapes.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation file-name (gallery): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • observation title (gallery): 200801302327201711072805
  • observation file-name (gallery): 200801302327201711072805

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue jacket yellow stripe
  • color swatch grid pixel art
  • abstract shapes blue gray
  • pixelated figure dark hair

Objects

  • color swatch grid
  • abstract pixel art shapes

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • dithered rendering

Subjects

  • person

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • blue zip-up jacket
  • black inner collar
  • yellow sleeve stripe
  • dark hair
  • color swatches
  • abstract blue shapes
  • gray curved line
  • pixelated figure
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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
200801302327201711072805
Archive entry
200801302327201711072805.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:12 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#200801302327201711072805.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200801302327201711072805.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016