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Pixelated close-up of a person's head and upper torso against dark background, wearing light blue shirt.

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Pixelated close-up of a person's head and upper torso against dark background, wearing light blue shirt.

Pixelated close-up of a person's head and upper torso against dark background, wearing light blue shirt. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Ic…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • partial view
  • dark background

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image shows partial view of human subject from shoulder up. Subject has short light brown hair, visible ear, neck, and part of face including eye, nose, and mouth area. Skin tone is light. Subject wears solid light blue fabric garment covering shoulders and upper chest. Background is uniformly dark with no distinguishable features. Image resolution appears low, creating blocky pixelation across all elements.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person's head and upper torso against dark background, wearing light blue shirt.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Metadata Only Entities

  • celebrities

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • light blue shirt pixelated face
  • dark background human head close-up
  • pixelated light brown hair dark background

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-quality capture

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

Wordwall

  • light brown hair
  • light blue shirt
  • dark background
  • pixelated image
  • partial face view
  • visible ear
  • neck visible

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709251306281068208312
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 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/28/28a647d9b1e550a7ea9964abc03c6f329d5f344c35ae7e3abdaa60586214c6be.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:47 UTC
Archive ID
28a647d9b1e550a7
SHA-256
28a647d9b1e550a7ea9964abc03c6f329d5f344c35ae7e3abdaa60586214c6be
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
0.144546

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated close-up of a person's head and upper torso against dark background, wearing light blue shirt.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 04:44 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,537 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,093, response 595

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • skin tone (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static image (style, 0.80)
  • human subject (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • light blue
  • light brown
  • black
  • skin tone

Composition

  • close-up
  • partial view
  • dark background

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image shows partial view of human subject from shoulder up. Subject has short light brown hair, visible ear, neck, and part of face including eye, nose, and mouth area. Skin tone is light. Subject wears solid light blue fabric garment covering shoulders and upper chest. Background is uniformly dark with no distinguishable features. Image resolution appears low, creating blocky pixelation across all elements.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person's head and upper torso against dark background, wearing light blue shirt.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Metadata Only Entities

  • celebrities

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • light blue shirt pixelated face
  • dark background human head close-up
  • pixelated light brown hair dark background

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-quality capture

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
  • static image

Subjects

  • human subject

Wordwall

  • light brown hair
  • light blue shirt
  • dark background
  • pixelated image
  • partial face view
  • visible ear
  • neck visible
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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
200709251306281068208312
Archive entry
200709251306281068208312.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#200709251306281068208312.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709251306281068208312.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016