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A pixelated image of a person in a dark jacket with a red collar, showing two states: one with a white streak on the face and another with text overlay.

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A pixelated image of a person in a dark jacket with a red collar, showing two states: one with a white streak on the face and another with text overlay.

A pixelated image of a person in a dark jacket with a red collar, showing two states: one with a white streak on the face and another with text overlay. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM bud…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • the white streak on the face is replaced by a text overlay

Animation Summary

The animation shows a person with a white streak on the face in the first state, which is replaced by a text overlay reading 'DEAN' with a heart symbol in the second state.

Composition

  • centered subject
  • dark background

Dense Caption

The image shows a person with short brown hair wearing a dark jacket with a red collar. In the top-left view, there is a white streak on the left side of the face. In the top-right view, the white streak is replaced by a black rectangular overlay containing the text 'DEAN' in white capital letters and a small white heart symbol to the right of the text. The bottom-left view shows the person without any overlay or streak. The background is dark and indistinct. The image has a pixelated, low-resolution appearance typical of early 2000s digital art.

Description

A pixelated image of a person in a dark jacket with a red collar, showing two states: one with a white streak on the face and another with text overlay.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person dark jacket red collar
  • DEAN text overlay heart symbol
  • pixelated low-resolution image
  • white streak face replacement

Objects

  • heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • The image appears to be a static frame from an animation sequence showing two states of the same subject.

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 topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • DEAN

Wordwall

  • person
  • dark jacket
  • red collar
  • white streak
  • text overlay
  • DEAN
  • heart symbol
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • dark background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090723095113257483492
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
5.5 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/36/36a68d3b376ae9ec9bb641f32d3e142bf7903ba1f992c381fcb9378d245a5a8b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 UTC
Archive ID
36a68d3b376ae9ec
SHA-256
36a68d3b376ae9ec9bb641f32d3e142bf7903ba1f992c381fcb9378d245a5a8b
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:40 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.078640

OpenAI category scores

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A pixelated image of a person in a dark jacket with a red collar, showing two states: one with a white streak on the face and another with text overlay.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 15:08 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,109 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 821

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • dark (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • the white streak on the face is replaced by a text overlay

Animation Summary

The animation shows a person with a white streak on the face in the first state, which is replaced by a text overlay reading 'DEAN' with a heart symbol in the second state.

Colors

  • dark
  • red
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • centered subject
  • dark background

Dense Caption

The image shows a person with short brown hair wearing a dark jacket with a red collar. In the top-left view, there is a white streak on the left side of the face. In the top-right view, the white streak is replaced by a black rectangular overlay containing the text 'DEAN' in white capital letters and a small white heart symbol to the right of the text. The bottom-left view shows the person without any overlay or streak. The background is dark and indistinct. The image has a pixelated, low-resolution appearance typical of early 2000s digital art.

Description

A pixelated image of a person in a dark jacket with a red collar, showing two states: one with a white streak on the face and another with text overlay.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person dark jacket red collar
  • DEAN text overlay heart symbol
  • pixelated low-resolution image
  • white streak face replacement

Objects

  • heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • The image appears to be a static frame from an animation sequence showing two states of the same subject.

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 topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • DEAN

Wordwall

  • person
  • dark jacket
  • red collar
  • white streak
  • text overlay
  • DEAN
  • heart symbol
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • dark background
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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
20090723095113257483492
Archive entry
20090723095113257483492.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 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#20090723095113257483492.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090723095113257483492.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016