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four pixelated images showing a person with light brown hair making various facial expressions and hand gestures against a blurred background

four pixelated images showing a person with light brown hair making various facial expressions and hand gestures against a blurred background. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon fr…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • facial expressions change : mouth open to lips pursed
  • hand gestures shift from near chin to raised to cheek

Animation Summary

  • Facial expressions shift from mouth open to lips pursed; hand gestures move from near chin to raised cheek across four

Composition

  • four
  • close-up crop

Dense Caption

Four adjacent square panels display the same individual in different poses. Top-left: mouth open, right hand near chin. Top-right: lips pursed, right hand raised to cheek. Bottom-left: mouth open wider, right hand closer to face. Bottom-right: lips pursed, right hand lower on cheek. All show light brown hair, dark clothing with green and blue accents, blurred background. Pixelation suggests low-resolution digital capture.

Description

four pixelated images showing a person with light brown hair making various facial expressions and hand gestures against a blurred 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 topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200911111516051440721761

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person light brown hair dark clothing
  • facial expressions mouth open lips pursed
  • hand gestures near chin raised cheek
  • pixelated four

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A grid of four pixelated images showing a person with light brown hair making various facial expressions and hand gestures against a blurred background.
  • quarantined animationSummary: Facial expressions shift from mouth open to lips pursed; hand gestures move from near chin to raised cheek across four panels.
  • quarantined composition: grid of four panels
  • quarantined animation: facial expressions change across panels: mouth open to lips pursed
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated grid four panels

Wordwall

  • light brown hair
  • dark clothing
  • green accent
  • blue accent
  • mouth open
  • lips pursed
  • right hand near chin
  • right hand raised to cheek

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200911111516051440721761
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.7 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 UTC
Archive ID
ffe3b9dd0250dffa
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:10 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.125850

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four pixelated images showing a person with light brown hair making various facial expressions and hand gestures against a blurred background

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 20:09 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,206 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 675

Review tags

  • hand gestures (action, 0.80)
  • making facial expressions (action, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • expressive (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • clothing (object, 0.80)
  • hair (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution digital capture (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • making facial expressions
  • hand gestures

Animation

  • facial expressions change : mouth open to lips pursed
  • hand gestures shift from near chin to raised to cheek

Animation Summary

  • Facial expressions shift from mouth open to lips pursed; hand gestures move from near chin to raised cheek across four

Colors

  • light brown
  • dark blue
  • green
  • pink (lips)

Composition

  • four
  • close-up crop

Dense Caption

Four adjacent square panels display the same individual in different poses. Top-left: mouth open, right hand near chin. Top-right: lips pursed, right hand raised to cheek. Bottom-left: mouth open wider, right hand closer to face. Bottom-right: lips pursed, right hand lower on cheek. All show light brown hair, dark clothing with green and blue accents, blurred background. Pixelation suggests low-resolution digital capture.

Description

four pixelated images showing a person with light brown hair making various facial expressions and hand gestures against a blurred 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 topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200911111516051440721761

Mood

  • playful
  • expressive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person light brown hair dark clothing
  • facial expressions mouth open lips pursed
  • hand gestures near chin raised cheek
  • pixelated four

Objects

  • hair
  • clothing

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  • quarantined animation: facial expressions change across panels: mouth open to lips pursed
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated grid four panels

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution digital capture

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • light brown hair
  • dark clothing
  • green accent
  • blue accent
  • mouth open
  • lips pursed
  • right hand near chin
  • right hand raised to cheek
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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
200911111516051440721761
Archive entry
200911111516051440721761.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 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#200911111516051440721761.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200911111516051440721761.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016