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Pixelated grayscale image of a figure in dark clothing holding an object, with partial text visible on the chest area.

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Pixelated grayscale image of a figure in dark clothing holding an object, with partial text visible on the chest area.

Pixelated grayscale image of a figure in dark clothing holding an object, with partial text visible on the chest area. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons S…

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Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central figure
  • horizontal stripes background

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixelated static icon; central figure wears dark top and light pants; right arm extended forward holding small rectangular object; left hand near waist; partial white text 'AL' visible on chest; background features horizontal striped pattern; image has low resolution, high pixelation, and limited grayscale tones.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale image of a figure in dark clothing holding an object, with partial text visible on the chest area.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • 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
  • 200709221553421937283258

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixelated figure holding object
  • partial text AL on chest
  • horizontal stripes background

Preprocessing Notes

  • image has low resolution and high pixelation

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

Subjects

  • figure

Uncertain Text

  • AL

Visually Supported Entities

  • figure

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • static icon
  • dark clothing
  • light pants
  • extended right arm
  • small rectangular object
  • partial text 'AL'
  • horizontal stripes
  • low resolution

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709221553421937283258
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:47 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.1 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/f4/f44d9c7bdee13d47abfcf445849530be76ae546664e7d5e1476f076c493a2f2e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:47 UTC
Archive ID
f44d9c7bdee13d47
SHA-256
f44d9c7bdee13d47abfcf445849530be76ae546664e7d5e1476f076c493a2f2e
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
July 28, 2026 at 10:25 UTC
Run
1201
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000481

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:04 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.329560

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated grayscale image of a figure in dark clothing holding an object, with partial text visible on the chest area.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 03:57 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,256 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,093, response 685

Review tags

  • extending (action, 0.80)
  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • rectangular object (object, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • figure (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding
  • extending

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • central figure
  • horizontal stripes background

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixelated static icon; central figure wears dark top and light pants; right arm extended forward holding small rectangular object; left hand near waist; partial white text 'AL' visible on chest; background features horizontal striped pattern; image has low resolution, high pixelation, and limited grayscale tones.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale image of a figure in dark clothing holding an object, with partial text visible on the chest area.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • 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
  • 200709221553421937283258

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixelated figure holding object
  • partial text AL on chest
  • horizontal stripes background

Objects

  • rectangular object

Preprocessing Notes

  • image has low resolution and high pixelation

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

  • pixelated
  • grayscale

Subjects

  • figure

Uncertain Text

  • AL

Visually Supported Entities

  • figure

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • static icon
  • dark clothing
  • light pants
  • extended right arm
  • small rectangular object
  • partial text 'AL'
  • horizontal stripes
  • low resolution
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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
200709221553421937283258
Archive entry
200709221553421937283258.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:47 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#200709221553421937283258.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709221553421937283258.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016