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Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with dark hair and sunglasses, wearing a dark top against a blurred background.

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Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with dark hair and sunglasses, wearing a dark top against a blurred background.

Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with dark hair and sunglasses, wearing a dark top against a blurred background. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered subject
  • cropped bottom-right corner

Dense Caption

The icon is a black-and-white pixelated image showing a person with medium-length dark hair styled in layers. The individual wears dark sunglasses covering the eyes and has a neutral expression with lips closed. They are dressed in a dark high-necked garment. The background consists of indistinct light and dark shapes suggesting foliage or blurred outdoor elements. In the bottom-right corner, there is a solid gray rectangular area that appears to be cropped or missing content. The image exhibits low resolution typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with dark hair and sunglasses, wearing a dark top 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 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

Preprocessing Notes

The image appears to be a cropped or incomplete frame from an animation sequence, with the rightmost section showing consistent elements across frames.

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

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • black-and-white
  • pixelated
  • medium-length hair
  • dark sunglasses
  • neutral expression
  • closed lips
  • dark high-necked garment
  • blurred background
  • gray rectangular area

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200805061855291033852512
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:25 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.9 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/24/24300917526f700612b15c9b6dbb5fb50974e5c3951927835917dde21a420790.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:25 UTC
Archive ID
24300917526f7006
SHA-256
24300917526f700612b15c9b6dbb5fb50974e5c3951927835917dde21a420790
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:21 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.100924

OpenAI category scores

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Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with dark hair and sunglasses, wearing a dark top against a blurred background.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 12:45 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
13,977 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,115, response 725

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • monochrome (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • centered subject
  • cropped bottom-right corner

Dense Caption

The icon is a black-and-white pixelated image showing a person with medium-length dark hair styled in layers. The individual wears dark sunglasses covering the eyes and has a neutral expression with lips closed. They are dressed in a dark high-necked garment. The background consists of indistinct light and dark shapes suggesting foliage or blurred outdoor elements. In the bottom-right corner, there is a solid gray rectangular area that appears to be cropped or missing content. The image exhibits low resolution typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with dark hair and sunglasses, wearing a dark top 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 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

Mood

  • neutral

Preprocessing Notes

The image appears to be a cropped or incomplete frame from an animation sequence, with the rightmost section showing consistent elements across frames.

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
  • monochrome

Subjects

  • person

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • black-and-white
  • pixelated
  • medium-length hair
  • dark sunglasses
  • neutral expression
  • closed lips
  • dark high-necked garment
  • blurred background
  • gray rectangular area
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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
200805061855291033852512
Archive entry
200805061855291033852512.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:25 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#200805061855291033852512.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200805061855291033852512.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016