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Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with long dark hair wearing a dark tie and light shirt, facing slightly left with a neutral expression.

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Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with long dark hair wearing a dark tie and light shirt, facing slightly left with a neutral expression.

Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with long dark hair wearing a dark tie and light shirt, facing slightly left with a neutral expression. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from I…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered subject
  • cropped to shoulders

Dense Caption

Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with long dark hair, wearing a dark tie and light shirt. The person's head is turned slightly left, showing a neutral facial expression with visible eyes, nose, and mouth. The background is dark and indistinct. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics. No text or additional objects are visible.

Description

Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with long dark hair wearing a dark tie and light shirt, facing slightly left with a neutral expression.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 20081004124818333008535

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person long dark hair dark tie light shirt
  • black-and-white pixelated neutral expression
  • low-resolution blocky appearance
  • indistinct background

Preprocessing Notes

  • low-resolution
  • blocky pixels

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

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  • black-and-white
  • pixelated
  • long dark hair
  • dark tie
  • light shirt
  • neutral expression
  • slightly left
  • low-resolution
  • blocky appearance
  • indistinct background

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081004124818333008535
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.9 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/18/18bc4f3b33a014fbb96866711900ba6b9e85819d5abd18c2a51d70fee3bb4a68.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC
Archive ID
18bc4f3b33a014fb
SHA-256
18bc4f3b33a014fbb96866711900ba6b9e85819d5abd18c2a51d70fee3bb4a68
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:09 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.102051

OpenAI category scores

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Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with long dark hair wearing a dark tie and light shirt, facing slightly left with a neutral expression.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 02:51 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,734 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,090, response 763

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • dark tie (object, 0.80)
  • light shirt (object, 0.80)
  • monochrome (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered subject
  • cropped to shoulders

Dense Caption

Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with long dark hair, wearing a dark tie and light shirt. The person's head is turned slightly left, showing a neutral facial expression with visible eyes, nose, and mouth. The background is dark and indistinct. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics. No text or additional objects are visible.

Description

Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with long dark hair wearing a dark tie and light shirt, facing slightly left with a neutral expression.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 20081004124818333008535

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person long dark hair dark tie light shirt
  • black-and-white pixelated neutral expression
  • low-resolution blocky appearance
  • indistinct background

Objects

  • dark tie
  • light shirt

Preprocessing Notes

  • low-resolution
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Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Style

  • pixel art
  • monochrome

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

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  • pixelated
  • long dark hair
  • dark tie
  • light shirt
  • neutral expression
  • slightly left
  • low-resolution
  • blocky appearance
  • indistinct 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
20081004124818333008535
Archive entry
20081004124818333008535.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 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#20081004124818333008535.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081004124818333008535.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016