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Pixelated image of a person with dark hair wearing a white shirt, set against a light brown background.

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Pixelated image of a person with dark hair wearing a white shirt, set against a light brown background.

Pixelated image of a person with dark hair wearing a white shirt, set against a light brown background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Ico…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered subject
  • cropped to upper body

Dense Caption

The icon is a static pixelated image showing the upper body and head of an individual. The subject has short dark hair styled in a side-parted manner. They wear a white collared shirt with visible red accents on the collar area. The background consists of a textured, light brown surface with subtle variations in tone. Pixelation creates blocky visual artifacts across all elements. No text or symbols are present within the image.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with dark hair wearing a white shirt, set against a light brown background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20071008163604941942662

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • dark hair white shirt pixelated
  • person brown background red accents
  • white collared shirt dark hair
  • pixelated celebrity icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original dimensions

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Visually Supported Entities

  • celebrities

Wordwall

  • dark hair
  • white shirt
  • red accents
  • light brown background
  • pixelated
  • side-parted hair
  • collared shirt

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071008163604941942662
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:49 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/28/289de3e04a9021c7f9385c94266fcf14e82a16d5cac343c7579e874185c66725.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:49 UTC
Archive ID
289de3e04a9021c7
SHA-256
289de3e04a9021c7f9385c94266fcf14e82a16d5cac343c7579e874185c66725
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:26 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.106577

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image of a person with dark hair wearing a white shirt, set against a light brown background.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 08:31 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,248 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,094, response 675

Review tags

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

Colors

  • brown
  • white
  • red
  • black

Composition

  • centered subject
  • cropped to upper body

Dense Caption

The icon is a static pixelated image showing the upper body and head of an individual. The subject has short dark hair styled in a side-parted manner. They wear a white collared shirt with visible red accents on the collar area. The background consists of a textured, light brown surface with subtle variations in tone. Pixelation creates blocky visual artifacts across all elements. No text or symbols are present within the image.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with dark hair wearing a white shirt, set against a light brown background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20071008163604941942662

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • dark hair white shirt pixelated
  • person brown background red accents
  • white collared shirt dark hair
  • pixelated celebrity icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original dimensions

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Visually Supported Entities

  • celebrities

Wordwall

  • dark hair
  • white shirt
  • red accents
  • light brown background
  • pixelated
  • side-parted hair
  • collared shirt
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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
20071008163604941942662
Archive entry
20071008163604941942662.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:49 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#20071008163604941942662.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071008163604941942662.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016