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Pixelated grayscale image of a figure with light-colored hair and dark clothing, partially obscured by low resolution.

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Pixelated grayscale image of a figure with light-colored hair and dark clothing, partially obscured by low resolution.

Pixelated grayscale image of a figure with light-colored hair and dark clothing, partially obscured by low resolution. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons S…

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • partial figure
  • mid-left frame
  • vertical dark element left of center

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixel art depicts a partial figure with light-toned hair against a dark background. The subject's upper body is visible in mid-left frame, wearing dark attire with subtle shading on the right shoulder. A vertical dark element appears left of center. Pixelation obscures facial features and fine details; no text or symbols are present.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale image of a figure with light-colored hair and dark clothing, partially obscured by low resolution.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation file-name (gallery): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • observation title (gallery): 20080214153832760057426
  • observation file-name (gallery): 20080214153832760057426

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixel art figure
  • light hair dark clothing grayscale
  • partial figure vertical element

Preprocessing Notes

  • low resolution reduces detail clarity

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

Subjects

  • figure

Visually Supported Entities

  • figure

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • partial figure
  • light hair
  • dark clothing
  • vertical dark element
  • no text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080214153832760057426
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:14 UTC

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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/2a/2adace38e50b4e694be56fd12c73425f4f3b4f3f333f076217daeab03319bbf8.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:14 UTC
Archive ID
2adace38e50b4e69
SHA-256
2adace38e50b4e694be56fd12c73425f4f3b4f3f333f076217daeab03319bbf8
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:28 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.080454

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated grayscale image of a figure with light-colored hair and dark clothing, partially obscured by low resolution.

Reviewed
August 3, 2026 at 21:46 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,517 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,089, response 646

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • figure (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • partial figure
  • mid-left frame
  • vertical dark element left of center

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixel art depicts a partial figure with light-toned hair against a dark background. The subject's upper body is visible in mid-left frame, wearing dark attire with subtle shading on the right shoulder. A vertical dark element appears left of center. Pixelation obscures facial features and fine details; no text or symbols are present.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale image of a figure with light-colored hair and dark clothing, partially obscured by low resolution.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation file-name (gallery): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • observation title (gallery): 20080214153832760057426
  • observation file-name (gallery): 20080214153832760057426

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixel art figure
  • light hair dark clothing grayscale
  • partial figure vertical element

Preprocessing Notes

  • low resolution reduces detail clarity

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

  • pixel art

Subjects

  • figure

Visually Supported Entities

  • figure

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • partial figure
  • light hair
  • dark clothing
  • vertical dark element
  • no text
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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
20080214153832760057426
Archive entry
20080214153832760057426.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:14 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#20080214153832760057426.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080214153832760057426.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016