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A pixelated image of a person with light brown hair and a white patterned shirt, alongside four distinct black-and-white symbols on a white background.

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A pixelated image of a person with light brown hair and a white patterned shirt, alongside four distinct black-and-white symbols on a white background.

A pixelated image of a person with light brown hair and a white patterned shirt, alongside four distinct black-and-white symbols on a white background. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM budd…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four-section

Dense Caption

The image contains four distinct sections. Top-left: a pixelated person with light brown hair, wearing a white shirt with a subtle pattern, resting their hand near their mouth against a beige background. Top-right: a black rectangular shape with a white lowercase 'm' inside. Bottom-left: a black vertical rectangle with a white vertical line inside. Bottom-right: a black rounded square with a white circle inside a smaller black circle. All symbols are on a white background. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated appearance.

Description

A pixelated image of a person with light brown hair and a white patterned shirt, alongside four distinct black-and-white symbols on a white 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: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • 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
  • 200809251042591645107301

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person light brown hair white shirt
  • black rectangle white m
  • vertical line symbol
  • rounded square circle symbol

Objects

  • hand

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be a static composite of four distinct sections
  • quarantined composition: four-section grid

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

Visible Text

  • m

Wordwall

  • light brown hair
  • white patterned shirt
  • beige background
  • black rectangle
  • white 'm'
  • vertical line
  • rounded square
  • white circle
  • black circle
  • pixelated

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200809251042591645107301
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
3 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ff/ff282cdeb4c1472bc88037f20677c51a66a96666412a22f2dcf52dd67f298218.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC
Archive ID
ff282cdeb4c1472b
SHA-256
ff282cdeb4c1472bc88037f20677c51a66a96666412a22f2dcf52dd67f298218
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:10 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.099727

OpenAI category scores

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A pixelated image of a person with light brown hair and a white patterned shirt, alongside four distinct black-and-white symbols on a white background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 01:33 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,153 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 801

Review tags

  • resting hand near mouth (action, 0.80)
  • beige (color, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • hand (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • resting hand near mouth

Colors

  • beige
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • four-section

Dense Caption

The image contains four distinct sections. Top-left: a pixelated person with light brown hair, wearing a white shirt with a subtle pattern, resting their hand near their mouth against a beige background. Top-right: a black rectangular shape with a white lowercase 'm' inside. Bottom-left: a black vertical rectangle with a white vertical line inside. Bottom-right: a black rounded square with a white circle inside a smaller black circle. All symbols are on a white background. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated appearance.

Description

A pixelated image of a person with light brown hair and a white patterned shirt, alongside four distinct black-and-white symbols on a white 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: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • 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
  • 200809251042591645107301

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person light brown hair white shirt
  • black rectangle white m
  • vertical line symbol
  • rounded square circle symbol

Objects

  • hand

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be a static composite of four distinct sections
  • quarantined composition: four-section grid

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • m

Wordwall

  • light brown hair
  • white patterned shirt
  • beige background
  • black rectangle
  • white 'm'
  • vertical line
  • rounded square
  • white circle
  • black circle
  • pixelated
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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
200809251042591645107301
Archive entry
200809251042591645107301.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 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#200809251042591645107301.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200809251042591645107301.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016