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Pixelated image of a person with dark hair holding a microphone, wearing a blue shirt against warm-toned background.

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Pixelated image of a person with dark hair holding a microphone, wearing a blue shirt against warm-toned background.

Pixelated image of a person with dark hair holding a microphone, wearing a blue shirt against warm-toned background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sha…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered figure
  • close-up crop
  • warm background tones

Dense Caption

The icon shows a pixelated figure with short dark hair and light skin. The figure holds a black microphone near their mouth with one hand. They wear a dark blue collared shirt. The background consists of blurred orange and yellow tones suggesting stage lighting or an indoor setting. Pixelation is prominent across the entire image, reducing fine details.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with dark hair holding a microphone, wearing a blue shirt against warm-toned 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: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person holding microphone blue shirt
  • pixelated celebrity icon
  • stage lighting background
  • microphone performer icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • highly pixelated image reduces detail clarity

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Visually Supported Entities

  • celebrities

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • dark hair
  • light skin
  • black microphone
  • blue shirt
  • orange background
  • yellow background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200807041113541599603768
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 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/fc/fcf12dfade49de8999170b6c0482bff295d19366a219f07542ffa17faac103f8.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 UTC
Archive ID
fcf12dfade49de89
SHA-256
fcf12dfade49de8999170b6c0482bff295d19366a219f07542ffa17faac103f8
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:09 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.076692

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.923308onnx/unsafe0.076692onnx/nsfw0.041864onnx/nsfl0.034828
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Pixelated image of a person with dark hair holding a microphone, wearing a blue shirt against warm-toned background.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 10:32 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,707 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,088, response 621

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • singing (action, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • light skin tone (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • lively (mood, 0.80)
  • performing (mood, 0.80)
  • microphone (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding
  • singing

Colors

  • orange
  • yellow
  • dark blue
  • light skin tone
  • black

Composition

  • centered figure
  • close-up crop
  • warm background tones

Dense Caption

The icon shows a pixelated figure with short dark hair and light skin. The figure holds a black microphone near their mouth with one hand. They wear a dark blue collared shirt. The background consists of blurred orange and yellow tones suggesting stage lighting or an indoor setting. Pixelation is prominent across the entire image, reducing fine details.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with dark hair holding a microphone, wearing a blue shirt against warm-toned 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: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • performing
  • lively

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person holding microphone blue shirt
  • pixelated celebrity icon
  • stage lighting background
  • microphone performer icon

Objects

  • microphone

Preprocessing Notes

  • highly pixelated image reduces detail clarity

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Visually Supported Entities

  • celebrities

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • dark hair
  • light skin
  • black microphone
  • blue shirt
  • orange background
  • yellow background
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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
200807041113541599603768
Archive entry
200807041113541599603768.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 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#200807041113541599603768.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200807041113541599603768.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016