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Pixelated image of a figure with light brown hair holding a large spiral shell, wearing a black top against a muted brown background.

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Pixelated image of a figure with light brown hair holding a large spiral shell, wearing a black top against a muted brown background.

Pixelated image of a figure with light brown hair holding a large spiral shell, wearing a black top against a muted brown background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback CDX Bud…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • figure centered
  • shell held in left hand
  • small object held in right hand
  • muted brown background

Dense Caption

The image is a pixelated static icon featuring a figure with light brown curly hair and closed eyes. The figure wears a black top and holds a large spiral shell in the left hand. The shell is brown with a dark outline. The background is a muted brown gradient. The figure's right hand holds a small white object. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital art style with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a figure with light brown hair holding a large spiral shell, wearing a black top against a muted brown background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: action
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance topic-coverage: cars
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: dolls
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim

Metadata Only Entities

  • buddy-icons-info
  • 19236

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • light brown hair figure holding spiral shell
  • pixelated figure with closed eyes
  • muted brown background shell icon
  • retro digital art shell holding figure

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2005
  • provenance era: 2011
  • provenance source-name: Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs
  • provenance topic-coverage: action
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: cars
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: dolls
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Subjects

  • figure

Wordwall

  • light brown hair
  • closed eyes
  • black top
  • large spiral shell
  • small white object
  • muted brown background
  • pixelated
  • retro digital art

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Added to archive
July 11, 2026

Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs

Source title
19236
Category
img / icon
Era
Mid-to-Late-2000s AIM Portal
Observed
July 11, 2026 at 20:55 UTC

Original record Source download

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
3.5 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 11, 2026
Relative path
icons/f9/f9a4eda45137b52e127701cbe329be9ce102005af8540cf9388b4a93d99afb61.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 11, 2026 at 20:55 UTC
Archive ID
f9a4eda45137b52e
SHA-256
f9a4eda45137b52e127701cbe329be9ce102005af8540cf9388b4a93d99afb61
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:07 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.078520

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.921480onnx/unsafe0.078520onnx/nsfw0.049101onnx/nsfl0.029419
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated image of a figure with light brown hair holding a large spiral shell, wearing a black top against a muted brown background.

Reviewed
August 24, 2026 at 15:57 UTC
Run
68
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,430 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,023, response 708

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • calm (mood, 0.80)
  • serene (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital art (style, 0.80)
  • figure (subject, 0.80)
  • small white object (subject, 0.80)
  • spiral shell (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding

Colors

  • light brown
  • black
  • brown
  • white
  • muted brown

Composition

  • figure centered
  • shell held in left hand
  • small object held in right hand
  • muted brown background

Dense Caption

The image is a pixelated static icon featuring a figure with light brown curly hair and closed eyes. The figure wears a black top and holds a large spiral shell in the left hand. The shell is brown with a dark outline. The background is a muted brown gradient. The figure's right hand holds a small white object. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital art style with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a figure with light brown hair holding a large spiral shell, wearing a black top against a muted brown background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: action
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance topic-coverage: cars
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: dolls
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim

Metadata Only Entities

  • buddy-icons-info
  • 19236

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • calm
  • serene

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • light brown hair figure holding spiral shell
  • pixelated figure with closed eyes
  • muted brown background shell icon
  • retro digital art shell holding figure

Objects

  • spiral shell
  • small white object

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2005
  • provenance era: 2011
  • provenance source-name: Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs
  • provenance topic-coverage: action
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: cars
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: dolls
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital art

Subjects

  • figure
  • spiral shell
  • small white object

Wordwall

  • light brown hair
  • closed eyes
  • black top
  • large spiral shell
  • small white object
  • muted brown background
  • pixelated
  • retro digital art
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 03:58 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
Raw JSON
Source semantic tags (1)
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Full source records (1)
Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs (wayback-buddy-icons-info-img-icon-gifs)
Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-to-Late-2000s AIM Portal
Type
Wayback direct native asset enumeration
Category
img / icon
Alt
19236
Observed
July 11, 2026 at 20:55 UTC
Rights
mixed user-submitted and licensed imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
native Buddy-Icons.info AIM icon assets spanning user submissions, fandom, identity, relationships, school, sports, music, movies, and celebrity culture
Original: http://www.buddy-icons.info/img/icon/19236.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20060718172605id_/http://www.buddy-icons.info:80/img/icon/19236.gif