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Pixelated image of a person with dark hair holding a microphone, wearing sunglasses, with cyan and brown pixelated symbols on the right side.

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Pixelated image of a person with dark hair holding a microphone, wearing sunglasses, with cyan and brown pixelated symbols on the right side.

Pixelated image of a person with dark hair holding a microphone, wearing sunglasses, with cyan and brown pixelated symbols on the right side. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Interne…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • person centered
  • symbols on right
  • gradient background

Dense Caption

Pixelated image shows a person with dark hair and sunglasses holding a silver microphone. The person's mouth is open in a smile. The background is a gradient of light blue and dark blue. On the right side, there are three cyan and brown pixelated symbols: a square with a circle, a downward arrow, and a square with a cross. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics.

Description

Pixelated image of a person with dark hair holding a microphone, wearing sunglasses, with cyan and brown pixelated symbols on the right side.

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
  • 20081227171738730466694
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person holding microphone
  • sunglasses pixelated
  • cyan brown symbols
  • light blue dark blue background
  • open mouth smiling
  • pixelated blocky image
  • microphone silver
  • gradient background symbols

Preprocessing Notes

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata hints but no authoritative visual evidence

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata hints but no authoritative visual evidence

Wordwall

  • dark hair
  • sunglasses
  • microphone
  • cyan symbols
  • brown symbols
  • pixelated
  • light blue background
  • dark blue background
  • open mouth
  • smiling
  • silver microphone
  • blocky appearance
  • gradient background
  • three symbols
  • square with circle
  • downward arrow
  • square with cross

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081227171738730466694
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.8 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/f7/f7b6ec41e11f6c94199454ce9d5a875dcb1046f7f175894b4b41e5a5ac7889bc.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 UTC
Archive ID
f7b6ec41e11f6c94
SHA-256
f7b6ec41e11f6c94199454ce9d5a875dcb1046f7f175894b4b41e5a5ac7889bc
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:06 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.111231

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image of a person with dark hair holding a microphone, wearing sunglasses, with cyan and brown pixelated symbols on the right side.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 15:35 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,294 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,092, response 764

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • microphone (object, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding
  • smiling

Colors

  • cyan
  • brown
  • light blue
  • dark blue
  • silver
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • person centered
  • symbols on right
  • gradient background

Dense Caption

Pixelated image shows a person with dark hair and sunglasses holding a silver microphone. The person's mouth is open in a smile. The background is a gradient of light blue and dark blue. On the right side, there are three cyan and brown pixelated symbols: a square with a circle, a downward arrow, and a square with a cross. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics.

Description

Pixelated image of a person with dark hair holding a microphone, wearing sunglasses, with cyan and brown pixelated symbols on the right side.

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
  • 20081227171738730466694
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • happy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person holding microphone
  • sunglasses pixelated
  • cyan brown symbols
  • light blue dark blue background
  • open mouth smiling
  • pixelated blocky image
  • microphone silver
  • gradient background symbols

Objects

  • microphone

Preprocessing Notes

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata hints but no authoritative visual evidence

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata hints but no authoritative visual evidence

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

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  • sunglasses
  • microphone
  • cyan symbols
  • brown symbols
  • pixelated
  • light blue background
  • dark blue background
  • open mouth
  • smiling
  • silver microphone
  • blocky appearance
  • gradient background
  • three symbols
  • square with circle
  • downward arrow
  • square with cross
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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
20081227171738730466694
Archive entry
20081227171738730466694.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 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#20081227171738730466694.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081227171738730466694.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016