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Pixelated image of a person with short dark hair holding a black object near their face against a light background.

Pixelated image of a person with short dark hair holding a black object near their face against a light background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shar…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • profile view
  • close-up crop

Dense Caption

The image is highly pixelated. A figure with short, dark brown or black hair appears in profile facing left. The figure's right hand holds a small, rectangular black object close to the mouth area. The skin tone is pale pinkish-beige. Background consists of muted gray and beige tones. No visible text or symbols are present on the image itself.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with short dark hair holding a black object near their face against a light 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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070922070129682944627

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person holding black object
  • profile view short dark hair pale skin
  • muted background pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-quality from original source

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • profile view
  • short dark hair
  • pale skin
  • black handheld object
  • muted background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070922070129682944627
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:47 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/0b/0bbd16ccd5d516d082f6612de86d0b00ed3873f49cd34daa679b80d6bb5085eb.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:47 UTC
Archive ID
0bbd16ccd5d516d0
SHA-256
0bbd16ccd5d516d082f6612de86d0b00ed3873f49cd34daa679b80d6bb5085eb
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:55 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.378726

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.621274onnx/unsafe0.378726onnx/nsfw0.339218onnx/nsfl0.039507
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Pixelated image of a person with short dark hair holding a black object near their face against a light background.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 03:42 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,244 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,089, response 664

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • beige (color, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • pinkish beige (color, 0.80)
  • handheld black object (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding

Colors

  • gray
  • beige
  • pinkish-beige
  • black

Composition

  • profile view
  • close-up crop

Dense Caption

The image is highly pixelated. A figure with short, dark brown or black hair appears in profile facing left. The figure's right hand holds a small, rectangular black object close to the mouth area. The skin tone is pale pinkish-beige. Background consists of muted gray and beige tones. No visible text or symbols are present on the image itself.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with short dark hair holding a black object near their face against a light 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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070922070129682944627

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person holding black object
  • profile view short dark hair pale skin
  • muted background pixel art

Objects

  • handheld black object

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-quality from original source

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • 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

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • profile view
  • short dark hair
  • pale skin
  • black handheld object
  • muted 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
20070922070129682944627
Archive entry
20070922070129682944627.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:47 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#20070922070129682944627.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070922070129682944627.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016