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A pixelated image shows a person with brown hair and beard wearing a blue and white shirt, holding a long brown object against a warm-toned background with purple shapes.

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A pixelated image shows a person with brown hair and beard wearing a blue and white shirt, holding a long brown object against a warm-toned background with purple shapes.

A pixelated image shows a person with brown hair and beard wearing a blue and white shirt, holding a long brown object against a warm-toned background with purple shapes. 48×48 GI…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • figure right of center
  • background gradient
  • two purple shapes upper left

Dense Caption

The image is a low-resolution pixelated static icon. A figure with brown hair and a beard is positioned slightly right of center, facing left. The figure wears a blue and white shirt with a dark collar. The figure holds a long brown object extending from the bottom left to the top right. The background is a gradient of warm orange and brown tones. Two small purple pixel clusters appear in the upper left. The image has a retro digital art style with visible pixelation.

Description

A pixelated image shows a person with brown hair and beard wearing a blue and white shirt, holding a long brown object against a warm-toned background with purple shapes.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200904161449001705850698

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person holding long brown object
  • blue white shirt brown hair beard
  • purple shapes warm background
  • pixelated retro digital art

Preprocessing Notes

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

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • beard
  • blue and white shirt
  • long brown object
  • warm background
  • purple shapes
  • pixelated
  • static
  • retro digital art

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200904161449001705850698
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/fd/fdfc7075611aef3603915bb9f9963dc35c78cde976a2d2b494588db03cd8574a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 UTC
Archive ID
fdfc7075611aef36
SHA-256
fdfc7075611aef3603915bb9f9963dc35c78cde976a2d2b494588db03cd8574a
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
0.132968

OpenAI category scores

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A pixelated image shows a person with brown hair and beard wearing a blue and white shirt, holding a long brown object against a warm-toned background with purple shapes.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 06:53 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,466 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,092, response 802

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • long brown object (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital art (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding

Colors

  • brown
  • blue
  • white
  • purple
  • orange

Composition

  • figure right of center
  • background gradient
  • two purple shapes upper left

Dense Caption

The image is a low-resolution pixelated static icon. A figure with brown hair and a beard is positioned slightly right of center, facing left. The figure wears a blue and white shirt with a dark collar. The figure holds a long brown object extending from the bottom left to the top right. The background is a gradient of warm orange and brown tones. Two small purple pixel clusters appear in the upper left. The image has a retro digital art style with visible pixelation.

Description

A pixelated image shows a person with brown hair and beard wearing a blue and white shirt, holding a long brown object against a warm-toned background with purple shapes.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200904161449001705850698

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person holding long brown object
  • blue white shirt brown hair beard
  • purple shapes warm background
  • pixelated retro digital art

Objects

  • long brown object

Preprocessing Notes

  • low-resolution pixelated image

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital art

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • beard
  • blue and white shirt
  • long brown object
  • warm background
  • purple shapes
  • pixelated
  • static
  • retro digital art
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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
200904161449001705850698
Archive entry
200904161449001705850698.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 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#200904161449001705850698.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200904161449001705850698.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016