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A person holds a black smartphone horizontally, covering their mouth, with a striped fabric background and a light-colored surface beneath.

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • the right hand's grip on the smartphone shifts slightly

Animation Summary

  • The right hand's grip on the smartphone shifts slightly across observations.

Composition

  • horizontal smartphone
  • striped background
  • light surface

Dense Caption

A person with dark hair holds a black smartphone horizontally in front of their mouth, obscuring it. The smartphone has a dark screen with faint horizontal lines. The person wears a light-colored sleeveless top. The background consists of a striped fabric in blue and white tones, and a light-colored surface beneath. The image is pixelated with visible compression artifacts. The person's eyes are closed or squinting. The right hand holds the smartphone, with fingers visible on the right side of the device. The left hand is partially visible on the left side of the device. The person's face is angled slightly upward. The lighting is soft and even.

Description

  • A person holds a black smartphone horizontally, covering their mouth, with a striped fabric background and a light-colored surface beneath.

Metadata Contradicted By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • 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
  • 200811231244501604130007

Metadata Supported By Image

  • The image shows a person holding a smartphone, which is not consistent with the 2007 era's common devices.

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person holding smartphone covering mouth
  • striped blue and white fabric background
  • pixelated smartphone image
  • light-colored sleeveless top

Preprocessing Notes

  • The image is a static frame from an animation; the animation shows minimal motion in the right hand's grip on the smartphone.

Source Metadata Interpretation

The source hints suggest a 2007-2016 collection of shared buddy icons, but the image itself shows a smartphone, which is inconsistent with the era's typical devices.

Wordwall

  • person
  • smartphone
  • black
  • horizontal
  • mouth
  • striped fabric
  • blue
  • white
  • light-colored
  • sleeveless
  • top
  • eyes
  • closed
  • fingers
  • hand
  • light surface
  • pixelated
  • compression
  • artifacts
  • angled
  • upward
  • soft
  • lighting

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200811231244501604130007
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.6 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 15:44 UTC
Archive ID
fa9d0b4c76d408c1
SHA-256
fa9d0b4c76d408c1fff1d7d2f863e6bbe840e4bb4e9a0500cabed9d10d000191
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
July 27, 2026 at 19:09 UTC
Run
1196
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001289

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:07 UTC
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1140
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Enrichment records (1)
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A person holds a black smartphone horizontally, covering their mouth, with a striped fabric background and a light-colored surface beneath.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 10:14 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,776 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 829

Review tags

  • covering (action, 0.80)
  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • light colored (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • smartphone (object, 0.80)
  • compressed (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding
  • covering

Animation

  • the right hand's grip on the smartphone shifts slightly

Animation Summary

  • The right hand's grip on the smartphone shifts slightly across observations.

Colors

  • black
  • blue
  • white
  • light-colored

Composition

  • horizontal smartphone
  • striped background
  • light surface

Dense Caption

A person with dark hair holds a black smartphone horizontally in front of their mouth, obscuring it. The smartphone has a dark screen with faint horizontal lines. The person wears a light-colored sleeveless top. The background consists of a striped fabric in blue and white tones, and a light-colored surface beneath. The image is pixelated with visible compression artifacts. The person's eyes are closed or squinting. The right hand holds the smartphone, with fingers visible on the right side of the device. The left hand is partially visible on the left side of the device. The person's face is angled slightly upward. The lighting is soft and even.

Description

  • A person holds a black smartphone horizontally, covering their mouth, with a striped fabric background and a light-colored surface beneath.

Metadata Contradicted By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • 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
  • 200811231244501604130007

Metadata Supported By Image

  • The image shows a person holding a smartphone, which is not consistent with the 2007 era's common devices.

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person holding smartphone covering mouth
  • striped blue and white fabric background
  • pixelated smartphone image
  • light-colored sleeveless top

Objects

  • smartphone

Preprocessing Notes

  • The image is a static frame from an animation; the animation shows minimal motion in the right hand's grip on the smartphone.

Source Metadata Interpretation

The source hints suggest a 2007-2016 collection of shared buddy icons, but the image itself shows a smartphone, which is inconsistent with the era's typical devices.

Style

  • pixelated
  • compressed

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

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  • mouth
  • striped fabric
  • blue
  • white
  • light-colored
  • sleeveless
  • top
  • eyes
  • closed
  • fingers
  • hand
  • light surface
  • pixelated
  • compression
  • artifacts
  • angled
  • upward
  • soft
  • lighting
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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
200811231244501604130007
Archive entry
200811231244501604130007.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 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#200811231244501604130007.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200811231244501604130007.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016