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Pixelated image of a person with dark hair wearing a light-colored top, making a hand gesture with the index finger raised against a blurred background.

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Pixelated image of a person with dark hair wearing a light-colored top, making a hand gesture with the index finger raised against a blurred background.

Pixelated image of a person with dark hair wearing a light-colored top, making a hand gesture with the index finger raised against a blurred background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon f…

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Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • off-center
  • blurred background

Dense Caption

The image is a low-resolution pixelated depiction of a person with dark hair and a light-colored top. The person is positioned slightly off-center, with their right hand raised in a gesture showing the index finger extended. The background consists of blurred, indistinct shapes in muted brown and beige tones. The overall image quality is highly pixelated, with visible blocky artifacts and limited color detail. No text or distinct symbols are present in the image.

Description

Pixelated image of a person with dark hair wearing a light-colored top, making a hand gesture with the index finger raised against a blurred background.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person index finger raised
  • dark hair light top
  • blurred background brown beige
  • off-center composition

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • dark hair
  • light-colored top
  • index finger raised
  • blurred background
  • muted brown tones
  • beige tones
  • off-center composition
  • blocky artifacts

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708101302481461404519
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/f9/f9d0c23cd11c379a26bc1296aa1c4d6fb9a2f781d6ce450cd19833c462131904.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 UTC
Archive ID
f9d0c23cd11c379a
SHA-256
f9d0c23cd11c379a26bc1296aa1c4d6fb9a2f781d6ce450cd19833c462131904
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 13, 2026 at 07:14 UTC
Run
1287
Input
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Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
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Overall score
0.010156

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July 23, 2026 at 20:07 UTC
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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated image of a person with dark hair wearing a light-colored top, making a hand gesture with the index finger raised against a blurred background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 21:47 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,810 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,093, response 639

Review tags

  • index finger raised (action, 0.80)
  • beige (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark brown (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • index finger raised

Colors

  • brown
  • beige
  • dark brown
  • light brown

Composition

  • off-center
  • blurred background

Dense Caption

The image is a low-resolution pixelated depiction of a person with dark hair and a light-colored top. The person is positioned slightly off-center, with their right hand raised in a gesture showing the index finger extended. The background consists of blurred, indistinct shapes in muted brown and beige tones. The overall image quality is highly pixelated, with visible blocky artifacts and limited color detail. No text or distinct symbols are present in the image.

Description

Pixelated image of a person with dark hair wearing a light-colored top, making a hand gesture with the index finger raised against a blurred background.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person index finger raised
  • dark hair light top
  • blurred background brown beige
  • off-center composition

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • dark hair
  • light-colored top
  • index finger raised
  • blurred background
  • muted brown tones
  • beige tones
  • off-center composition
  • blocky artifacts
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 11:08 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)
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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
200708101302481461404519
Archive entry
200708101302481461404519.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 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#200708101302481461404519.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708101302481461404519.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016