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A person in a dark outfit holds a small object near their face, with a blurred background showing light and dark tones.

A person in a dark outfit holds a small object near their face, with a blurred background showing light and dark tones. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fra…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • cropped
  • tight framing
  • partial face visible

Dense Caption

The image shows a person wearing a dark sleeveless top holding a small object close to their face. The person's hand is visible with fingers curled around the object. The background contains blurred light and dark tones, possibly indicating an indoor setting with soft lighting. The image has a pixelated appearance with visible compression artifacts. The person's face is partially visible with a neutral expression. The object held appears to be small and dark-colored. The overall composition is cropped tightly around the upper body and face.

Description

  • A person in a dark outfit holds a small object near their face, with a blurred background showing light and dark 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 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
  • 20090324221849928876766

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person holding small object
  • dark sleeveless top
  • pixelated image
  • cropped composition
  • neutral expression
  • blurred background
  • light and dark tones
  • compression artifacts

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be a single frame from an animated sequence

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

  • person
  • dark sleeveless top
  • small object
  • fingers curled
  • blurred background
  • light and dark tones
  • pixelated
  • compression artifacts
  • neutral expression
  • cropped composition

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090324221849928876766
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:55 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:55 UTC
Archive ID
f8a114743c5602b0
SHA-256
f8a114743c5602b0194585c36d6df31deb727af5e3489f90866d2deb49e4c451
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
0.069501

OpenAI category scores

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A person in a dark outfit holds a small object near their face, with a blurred background showing light and dark tones.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 04:06 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,688 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 820

Review tags

  • fingers curled (action, 0.80)
  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • dark (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • small object (object, 0.80)
  • compressed (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding
  • fingers curled

Colors

  • dark
  • light
  • orange
  • blue
  • gray

Composition

  • cropped
  • tight framing
  • partial face visible

Dense Caption

The image shows a person wearing a dark sleeveless top holding a small object close to their face. The person's hand is visible with fingers curled around the object. The background contains blurred light and dark tones, possibly indicating an indoor setting with soft lighting. The image has a pixelated appearance with visible compression artifacts. The person's face is partially visible with a neutral expression. The object held appears to be small and dark-colored. The overall composition is cropped tightly around the upper body and face.

Description

  • A person in a dark outfit holds a small object near their face, with a blurred background showing light and dark 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 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
  • 20090324221849928876766

Mood

  • neutral

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  • dark sleeveless top
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  • cropped composition
  • neutral expression
  • blurred background
  • light and dark tones
  • compression artifacts

Objects

  • small object

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be a single frame from an animated sequence

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
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  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • compressed

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

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  • dark sleeveless top
  • small object
  • fingers curled
  • blurred background
  • light and dark tones
  • pixelated
  • compression artifacts
  • neutral expression
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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
20090324221849928876766
Archive entry
20090324221849928876766.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:55 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#20090324221849928876766.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090324221849928876766.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016