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Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with short hair, wearing a dark jacket over a light shirt, holding a small object near their chest.

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Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with short hair, wearing a dark jacket over a light shirt, holding a small object near their chest.

Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with short hair, wearing a dark jacket over a light shirt, holding a small object near their chest. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Inter…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close crop
  • upper body
  • single light source

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixelated image shows a person with short hair, dark jacket, and light shirt. The person holds a small rectangular object near their chest. Background is indistinct with dark and light areas. Image has low resolution with visible pixelation. No text or symbols are visible. The person's face is partially obscured by pixelation. The object held appears to be a small box or device. The image is cropped closely around the upper body. The lighting suggests a single light source from the right.

Description

Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with short hair, wearing a dark jacket over a light shirt, holding a small object near their chest.

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 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200901011949141502310681

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • black-and-white pixelated person holding small object
  • grayscale close crop upper body
  • person with short hair dark jacket light shirt
  • single light source pixelated image

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled

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

Wordwall

  • black-and-white
  • pixelated
  • short hair
  • dark jacket
  • light shirt
  • small rectangular object
  • grayscale
  • low resolution
  • indistinct background
  • single light source

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200901011949141502310681
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.6 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/f1/f1843582954bb88d7d63bd773f05ca3a27fb445a68399add397ec973941e77e4.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 UTC
Archive ID
f1843582954bb88d
SHA-256
f1843582954bb88d7d63bd773f05ca3a27fb445a68399add397ec973941e77e4
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 6, 2026 at 07:46 UTC
Run
1269
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.097070

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:03 UTC
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1140
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Overall label
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Overall score
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Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with short hair, wearing a dark jacket over a light shirt, holding a small object near their chest.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 16:19 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,185 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,092, response 806

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • small rectangular object (object, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • close crop
  • upper body
  • single light source

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixelated image shows a person with short hair, dark jacket, and light shirt. The person holds a small rectangular object near their chest. Background is indistinct with dark and light areas. Image has low resolution with visible pixelation. No text or symbols are visible. The person's face is partially obscured by pixelation. The object held appears to be a small box or device. The image is cropped closely around the upper body. The lighting suggests a single light source from the right.

Description

Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with short hair, wearing a dark jacket over a light shirt, holding a small object near their chest.

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 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200901011949141502310681

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • black-and-white pixelated person holding small object
  • grayscale close crop upper body
  • person with short hair dark jacket light shirt
  • single light source pixelated image

Objects

  • small rectangular object

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • 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
  • grayscale

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

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  • pixelated
  • short hair
  • dark jacket
  • light shirt
  • small rectangular object
  • grayscale
  • low resolution
  • indistinct background
  • single light source
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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
200901011949141502310681
Archive entry
200901011949141502310681.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 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#200901011949141502310681.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200901011949141502310681.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016