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A pixelated figure in dark clothing holds a glowing object against a blurred background with blue and red tones.

A pixelated figure in dark clothing holds a glowing object against a blurred background with blue and red tones. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central figure
  • blurred background

Dense Caption

The image shows a heavily pixelated figure wearing dark clothing, holding a bright, elongated object that emits light. The figure's face is indistinct due to low resolution. Background elements include blurred patches of blue, red, and beige colors. No text or distinct symbols are visible on the figure or background. The rendering style appears intentionally degraded with high pixelation.

Description

  • A pixelated figure in dark clothing holds a glowing object against a blurred background with blue and red tones.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200910201207431297015288

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated figure holding glowing object
  • dark clothing blue red background
  • glowing object pixelated image
  • beige blue red background figure

Subjects

  • figure

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • dark clothing
  • glowing object
  • blue background
  • red background
  • beige background
  • no text
  • indistinct face

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200910201207431297015288
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/e7/e7170ea2e15fd8b5f1db25bdb75263ffae6772097722c258c3241db433101a98.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 UTC
Archive ID
e7170ea2e15fd8b5
SHA-256
e7170ea2e15fd8b5f1db25bdb75263ffae6772097722c258c3241db433101a98
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:57 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.100740

OpenAI category scores

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A pixelated figure in dark clothing holds a glowing object against a blurred background with blue and red tones.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 19:15 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,919 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,091, response 605

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • beige (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • dark (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • glowing object (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • figure (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding

Colors

  • dark
  • blue
  • red
  • beige

Composition

  • central figure
  • blurred background

Dense Caption

The image shows a heavily pixelated figure wearing dark clothing, holding a bright, elongated object that emits light. The figure's face is indistinct due to low resolution. Background elements include blurred patches of blue, red, and beige colors. No text or distinct symbols are visible on the figure or background. The rendering style appears intentionally degraded with high pixelation.

Description

  • A pixelated figure in dark clothing holds a glowing object against a blurred background with blue and red tones.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200910201207431297015288

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated figure holding glowing object
  • dark clothing blue red background
  • glowing object pixelated image
  • beige blue red background figure

Objects

  • glowing object

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • figure

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • dark clothing
  • glowing object
  • blue background
  • red background
  • beige background
  • no text
  • indistinct face
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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
200910201207431297015288
Archive entry
200910201207431297015288.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 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#200910201207431297015288.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200910201207431297015288.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016