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A pixelated image shows a person in a light-colored shirt holding a dark camera with a white flash attachment, positioned near their shoulder.

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A pixelated image shows a person in a light-colored shirt holding a dark camera with a white flash attachment, positioned near their shoulder.

A pixelated image shows a person in a light-colored shirt holding a dark camera with a white flash attachment, positioned near their shoulder. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Waybac…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • person centered
  • camera held near shoulder
  • blurred background

Dense Caption

The image is a low-resolution, pixelated static icon. A person with short dark hair and light skin wears a light-colored collared shirt. They hold a dark camera with a white flash attachment in their right hand, positioned near their shoulder. The background is blurred with indistinct shapes and muted colors. The image has a grainy texture typical of early digital compression. No text is visible on the icon itself.

Description

A pixelated image shows a person in a light-colored shirt holding a dark camera with a white flash attachment, positioned near their shoulder.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person holding camera
  • camera with flash attachment
  • light-colored shirt
  • pixelated image

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original dimensions

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

Wordwall

  • person
  • camera
  • flash attachment
  • light-colored shirt
  • short dark hair
  • pixelated
  • grainy texture
  • blurred background
  • right hand
  • collared shirt

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs

Source title
8827
Category
img / icon
Era
Mid-to-Late-2000s AIM Portal
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 01:21 UTC

Original record Source download

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.8 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/fc/fc0801f2ad4047ec02944efcdc2490eb847b3b9985eb6ae07a6c205e78ff46bc.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 01:21 UTC
Archive ID
fc0801f2ad4047ec
SHA-256
fc0801f2ad4047ec02944efcdc2490eb847b3b9985eb6ae07a6c205e78ff46bc
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:16 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.087598

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.912402onnx/unsafe0.087598onnx/nsfl0.051362onnx/nsfw0.036236
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A pixelated image shows a person in a light-colored shirt holding a dark camera with a white flash attachment, positioned near their shoulder.

Reviewed
August 24, 2026 at 20:32 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,443 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,019, response 665

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • dark (color, 0.80)
  • light colored (color, 0.80)
  • muted (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • camera (object, 0.80)
  • flash attachment (object, 0.80)
  • grainy (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding

Colors

  • light-colored
  • dark
  • white
  • muted

Composition

  • person centered
  • camera held near shoulder
  • blurred background

Dense Caption

The image is a low-resolution, pixelated static icon. A person with short dark hair and light skin wears a light-colored collared shirt. They hold a dark camera with a white flash attachment in their right hand, positioned near their shoulder. The background is blurred with indistinct shapes and muted colors. The image has a grainy texture typical of early digital compression. No text is visible on the icon itself.

Description

A pixelated image shows a person in a light-colored shirt holding a dark camera with a white flash attachment, positioned near their shoulder.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person holding camera
  • camera with flash attachment
  • light-colored shirt
  • pixelated image

Objects

  • camera
  • flash attachment

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original dimensions

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
  • grainy
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • person
  • camera
  • flash attachment
  • light-colored shirt
  • short dark hair
  • pixelated
  • grainy texture
  • blurred background
  • right hand
  • collared shirt
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 05:15 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)
TagConf.Evidenceimg0.80wayback-buddy-icons-info-img-icon-gifs · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · category · broad · observation-category
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
8827
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 01:21 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://buddy-icons.info/img/icon/8827.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20111122105508id_/http://buddy-icons.info/img/icon/8827.gif