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Pixelated static image of a person with light skin tone wearing dark clothing, set against a blurred background with blue and white tones.

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Pixelated static image of a person with light skin tone wearing dark clothing, set against a blurred background with blue and white tones.

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • partial figure view
  • blurred background

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image shows partial view of a figure with light skin tone. Figure wears dark-colored garment covering upper body. Background consists of blended blue and white pixels suggesting sky or light source. Image has low resolution with visible pixelation across all areas, no discernible facial features or text elements present.

Description

  • Pixelated static image of a person with light skin tone wearing dark clothing, set against a blurred background with blue and white tones.

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): 20080109140430204809592
  • observation file-name (gallery): 20080109140430204809592
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • celebrities

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person dark clothing blue background
  • pixelated figure low resolution
  • light skin tone pixelated image
  • blue white background person

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears heavily pixelated and low resolution, making fine details indistinguishable

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 skin tone
  • dark clothing
  • blue background
  • white background
  • pixelated image
  • low resolution

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080109140430204809592
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:09 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/2d/2d944bf2bb203c11464f96244bc323486261f6e6f5c244d81f14f4f0de2b97e4.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:09 UTC
Archive ID
2d944bf2bb203c11
SHA-256
2d944bf2bb203c11464f96244bc323486261f6e6f5c244d81f14f4f0de2b97e4
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:31 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.160154

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated static image of a person with light skin tone wearing dark clothing, set against a blurred background with blue and white tones.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 09:00 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,173 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,094, response 689

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • gray
  • purple
  • brown

Composition

  • partial figure view
  • blurred background

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image shows partial view of a figure with light skin tone. Figure wears dark-colored garment covering upper body. Background consists of blended blue and white pixels suggesting sky or light source. Image has low resolution with visible pixelation across all areas, no discernible facial features or text elements present.

Description

  • Pixelated static image of a person with light skin tone wearing dark clothing, set against a blurred background with blue and white tones.

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): 20080109140430204809592
  • observation file-name (gallery): 20080109140430204809592
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • celebrities

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person dark clothing blue background
  • pixelated figure low resolution
  • light skin tone pixelated image
  • blue white background person

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears heavily pixelated and low resolution, making fine details indistinguishable

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

Wordwall

  • light skin tone
  • dark clothing
  • blue background
  • white background
  • pixelated image
  • low resolution
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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
20080109140430204809592
Archive entry
20080109140430204809592.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:09 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#20080109140430204809592.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080109140430204809592.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016