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Black-and-white image of a person with short hair wearing a sleeveless top, positioned against a textured background.

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Black-and-white image of a person with short hair wearing a sleeveless top, positioned against a textured background.

Black-and-white image of a person with short hair wearing a sleeveless top, positioned against a textured background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Frank…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • upper body focus
  • centered subject
  • cropped frame

Dense Caption

Grayscale photograph shows a person with short dark hair and visible ear. The individual wears a sleeveless garment with thin straps over the shoulders. Background features a soft, indistinct texture resembling fabric or wall surface. Image appears cropped to focus on upper body and head. No text or symbols are present in the frame.

Description

  • Black-and-white image of a person with short hair wearing a sleeveless top, positioned against a textured background.

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): 200805271818331554645686
  • observation file-name (gallery): 200805271818331554645686
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • celebrities

Preprocessing Notes

  • no visible animation changes across observations

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

  • black-and-white
  • short hair
  • sleeveless top
  • textured background
  • cropped image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200805271818331554645686
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:28 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.8 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/2f/2fd17270d9e4606c616e1cb64e69ed6f5dfb8661963a9f5a8c95e3ca82bd2288.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:28 UTC
Archive ID
2fd17270d9e4606c
SHA-256
2fd17270d9e4606c616e1cb64e69ed6f5dfb8661963a9f5a8c95e3ca82bd2288
Content-safety assessments (3)
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Assessed
August 5, 2026 at 19:52 UTC
Run
1269
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000049

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August 1, 2026 at 15:48 UTC
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1252
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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July 23, 2026 at 07:33 UTC
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OpenAI category scores

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Black-and-white image of a person with short hair wearing a sleeveless top, positioned against a textured background.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 19:48 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
16,663 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 656

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • photographic (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • upper body focus
  • centered subject
  • cropped frame

Dense Caption

Grayscale photograph shows a person with short dark hair and visible ear. The individual wears a sleeveless garment with thin straps over the shoulders. Background features a soft, indistinct texture resembling fabric or wall surface. Image appears cropped to focus on upper body and head. No text or symbols are present in the frame.

Description

  • Black-and-white image of a person with short hair wearing a sleeveless top, positioned against a textured background.

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): 200805271818331554645686
  • observation file-name (gallery): 200805271818331554645686
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • celebrities

Mood

  • neutral

Preprocessing Notes

  • no visible animation changes across observations

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

  • photographic
  • grayscale

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • black-and-white
  • short hair
  • sleeveless top
  • textured background
  • cropped image
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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
200805271818331554645686
Archive entry
200805271818331554645686.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:28 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#200805271818331554645686.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200805271818331554645686.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016