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A pixelated close-up of a person wearing dark sunglasses with a reflective lens, showing a green text overlay reading AVIATORS at the bottom.

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A pixelated close-up of a person wearing dark sunglasses with a reflective lens, showing a green text overlay reading AVIATORS at the bottom.

A pixelated close-up of a person wearing dark sunglasses with a reflective lens, showing a green text overlay reading AVIATORS at the bottom. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Interne…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered face
  • text at bottom

Dense Caption

The image is a pixelated close-up of a person's face. The person wears dark sunglasses with reflective lenses showing a bright white reflection. The skin tone is brown. The mouth is closed with a neutral expression. At the bottom of the image, there is green text in a blocky, pixelated font spelling AVIATORS. The background is indistinct due to pixelation. The image has a low-resolution, digital appearance with visible pixelation throughout.

Description

A pixelated close-up of a person wearing dark sunglasses with a reflective lens, showing a green text overlay reading AVIATORS at the bottom.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070801190826384023110

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • sunglasses aviators
  • green text aviators
  • pixelated aviators
  • brown skin aviators
  • reflective sunglasses aviators
  • low resolution aviators
  • blocky font aviators
  • neutral expression aviators

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • AVIATORS

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • sunglasses
  • reflective lens
  • brown skin
  • neutral expression
  • green text
  • AVIATORS
  • blocky font
  • low-resolution
  • digital appearance

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070801190826384023110
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 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/35/357715f61d6e87d2e8274b26fc8bd7336ec9d596aacd400c2f2f95247bb7a250.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC
Archive ID
357715f61d6e87d2
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:39 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.087586

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A pixelated close-up of a person wearing dark sunglasses with a reflective lens, showing a green text overlay reading AVIATORS at the bottom.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 17:27 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,615 ms
Tokens
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Review tags

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  • dark gray (color, 0.80)
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  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • sunglasses (object, 0.80)
  • digital (style, 0.80)
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  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • brown
  • dark gray
  • green
  • white

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered face
  • text at bottom

Dense Caption

The image is a pixelated close-up of a person's face. The person wears dark sunglasses with reflective lenses showing a bright white reflection. The skin tone is brown. The mouth is closed with a neutral expression. At the bottom of the image, there is green text in a blocky, pixelated font spelling AVIATORS. The background is indistinct due to pixelation. The image has a low-resolution, digital appearance with visible pixelation throughout.

Description

A pixelated close-up of a person wearing dark sunglasses with a reflective lens, showing a green text overlay reading AVIATORS at the bottom.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

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  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070801190826384023110

Metadata Supported By Image

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  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

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  • brown skin aviators
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  • low resolution aviators
  • blocky font aviators
  • neutral expression aviators

Objects

  • sunglasses

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

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  • digital

Subjects

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Visible Text

  • AVIATORS

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • sunglasses
  • reflective lens
  • brown skin
  • neutral expression
  • green text
  • AVIATORS
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 10:05 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
20070801190826384023110
Archive entry
20070801190826384023110.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 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#20070801190826384023110.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070801190826384023110.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016