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A person with dark hair in a gray shirt holds a dark object against a blurred background with light and blue tones.

A person with dark hair in a gray shirt holds a dark object against a blurred background with light and blue tones. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksI…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • head turns left to right

Animation Summary

  • The head turns left to right across frames.

Composition

  • centered subject
  • blurred background

Dense Caption

The image shows a person with dark hair wearing a gray shirt holding a dark object. The background is blurred with light and blue tones. In the top-left frame, the person's head is turned slightly left. In the top-right frame, the head is turned slightly right. The bottom-left frame shows the head turned slightly left again. The person's expression remains neutral throughout. The image has a pixelated appearance with visible compression artifacts.

Description

  • A person with dark hair in a gray shirt holds a dark object against a blurred background with light and blue tones.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080622133241482530185

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person dark hair gray shirt
  • head turning left right
  • blurred background light blue
  • pixelated compression artifacts
  • holding dark object neutral expression
  • buddy icon animation
  • franksicons 20080622133241482530185
  • 2007-2016 buddy icons

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be a cropped section of a larger image

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

Wordwall

  • dark hair
  • gray shirt
  • dark object
  • blurred background
  • light tones
  • blue tones
  • neutral expression
  • pixelated
  • compression artifacts
  • head turned left
  • head turned right

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080622133241482530185
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:31 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/fa/faeb8be2e0636934605a78c24705efd10b3615d33474200acc54db908901bacc.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:31 UTC
Archive ID
faeb8be2e0636934
SHA-256
faeb8be2e0636934605a78c24705efd10b3615d33474200acc54db908901bacc
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:08 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.095103

OpenAI category scores

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A person with dark hair in a gray shirt holds a dark object against a blurred background with light and blue tones.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 07:47 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,653 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,106, response 853

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • turning head (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • dark (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • dark object (object, 0.80)
  • head turns left to right (other, 0.80)
  • compressed (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding
  • turning head

Animation

  • head turns left to right

Animation Summary

  • The head turns left to right across frames.

Colors

  • gray
  • dark
  • light
  • blue

Composition

  • centered subject
  • blurred background

Dense Caption

The image shows a person with dark hair wearing a gray shirt holding a dark object. The background is blurred with light and blue tones. In the top-left frame, the person's head is turned slightly left. In the top-right frame, the head is turned slightly right. The bottom-left frame shows the head turned slightly left again. The person's expression remains neutral throughout. The image has a pixelated appearance with visible compression artifacts.

Description

  • A person with dark hair in a gray shirt holds a dark object against a blurred background with light and blue tones.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080622133241482530185

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person dark hair gray shirt
  • head turning left right
  • blurred background light blue
  • pixelated compression artifacts
  • holding dark object neutral expression
  • buddy icon animation
  • franksicons 20080622133241482530185
  • 2007-2016 buddy icons

Objects

  • dark object

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be a cropped section of a larger image

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • 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: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Style

  • pixelated
  • compressed

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • dark hair
  • gray shirt
  • dark object
  • blurred background
  • light tones
  • blue tones
  • neutral expression
  • pixelated
  • compression artifacts
  • head turned left
  • head turned right
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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
20080622133241482530185
Archive entry
20080622133241482530185.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:31 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#20080622133241482530185.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080622133241482530185.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016