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A pixelated image of a person with blue hair wearing red sunglasses and a checkered shirt, with another person in an orange and white striped shirt in the background.

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A pixelated image of a person with blue hair wearing red sunglasses and a checkered shirt, with another person in an orange and white striped shirt in the background.

A pixelated image of a person with blue hair wearing red sunglasses and a checkered shirt, with another person in an orange and white striped shirt in the background. Animated 48×…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • top-left section
  • top-right section
  • bottom-left section

Dense Caption

The image is a pixelated composite with two distinct sections. In the top-left section, a person with blue hair wears red sunglasses and a checkered shirt with blue, white, and pink patterns over a light blue undershirt. In the top-right section, a person with dark hair wears an orange and white striped polo shirt with a small dark logo on the chest. The bottom-left section shows a black-and-white image of a person with dark hair wearing a collared shirt. The background in the top-left section is light blue, while the top-right section has a white background. The bottom-left section has a white background. The image uses a low-resolution, pixelated rendering style typical of early digital graphics.

Description

A pixelated image of a person with blue hair wearing red sunglasses and a checkered shirt, with another person in an orange and white striped shirt in the 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue hair red sunglasses checkered shirt
  • orange white striped polo shirt
  • black and white photo collared shirt
  • pixelated composite image

Wordwall

  • blue hair
  • red sunglasses
  • checkered shirt
  • orange and white striped polo
  • black-and-white photo
  • light blue background
  • white background
  • collared shirt
  • small dark logo
  • pixelated rendering

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2009022818351823543241
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.7 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/17/17908dcddf16b34e004b756a906eff07f8e5568f10eb737ee602365319fb79c7.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 UTC
Archive ID
17908dcddf16b34e
SHA-256
17908dcddf16b34e004b756a906eff07f8e5568f10eb737ee602365319fb79c7
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:08 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.104591

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A pixelated image of a person with blue hair wearing red sunglasses and a checkered shirt, with another person in an orange and white striped shirt in the background.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 01:03 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,708 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 748

Review tags

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  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • checkered shirt (object, 0.80)
  • collared shirt (object, 0.80)
  • orange and white striped polo shirt (object, 0.80)
  • red sunglasses (object, 0.80)
  • composite (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person with blue hair (subject, 0.80)
  • person with dark hair (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • red
  • white
  • orange
  • black
  • light blue
  • pink

Composition

  • top-left section
  • top-right section
  • bottom-left section

Dense Caption

The image is a pixelated composite with two distinct sections. In the top-left section, a person with blue hair wears red sunglasses and a checkered shirt with blue, white, and pink patterns over a light blue undershirt. In the top-right section, a person with dark hair wears an orange and white striped polo shirt with a small dark logo on the chest. The bottom-left section shows a black-and-white image of a person with dark hair wearing a collared shirt. The background in the top-left section is light blue, while the top-right section has a white background. The bottom-left section has a white background. The image uses a low-resolution, pixelated rendering style typical of early digital graphics.

Description

A pixelated image of a person with blue hair wearing red sunglasses and a checkered shirt, with another person in an orange and white striped shirt in the 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue hair red sunglasses checkered shirt
  • orange white striped polo shirt
  • black and white photo collared shirt
  • pixelated composite image

Objects

  • red sunglasses
  • checkered shirt
  • orange and white striped polo shirt
  • collared shirt

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • composite

Subjects

  • person with blue hair
  • person with dark hair

Wordwall

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  • red sunglasses
  • checkered shirt
  • orange and white striped polo
  • black-and-white photo
  • light blue background
  • white background
  • collared shirt
  • small dark logo
  • pixelated rendering
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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
2009022818351823543241
Archive entry
2009022818351823543241.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 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#2009022818351823543241.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2009022818351823543241.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016