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Pixelated image of a person with short dark hair wearing a dark jacket over a light shirt, standing in front of a blue and beige background with blurred shapes.

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Pixelated image of a person with short dark hair wearing a dark jacket over a light shirt, standing in front of a blue and beige background with blurred shapes.

Pixelated image of a person with short dark hair wearing a dark jacket over a light shirt, standing in front of a blue and beige background with blurred shapes. 50×50 GIF AIM budd…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central figure
  • background elements on left and right

Dense Caption

The image is a low-resolution pixelated depiction of a person with short dark hair and light skin. The person wears a dark jacket over a light-colored shirt. Behind the person, there is a blue structure on the left and a beige structure on the right, with a light blue background. The image has a grainy, blocky appearance typical of early digital compression. No text or distinct symbols are visible in the image.

Description

Pixelated image of a person with short dark hair wearing a dark jacket over a light shirt, standing in front of a blue and beige background with blurred shapes.

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 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200812261952222062042813

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person dark jacket light shirt
  • pixelated blue beige background
  • central figure blue structure beige structure
  • grainy blocky image

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be upscaled or heavily compressed

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

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • person
  • short dark hair
  • dark jacket
  • light shirt
  • blue structure
  • beige structure
  • light blue background
  • grainy
  • blocky

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200812261952222062042813
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 UTC
Archive ID
36b2f4d876b49e2f
SHA-256
36b2f4d876b49e2fea2a63c2e65dac9b9fa5891ef5a0ac41f874a73d8be759a8
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
0.095571

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image of a person with short dark hair wearing a dark jacket over a light shirt, standing in front of a blue and beige background with blurred shapes.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 15:29 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,990 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,092, response 805

Review tags

  • beige (color, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • dark gray (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • beige structure (object, 0.80)
  • blue structure (object, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • dark blue
  • light blue
  • beige
  • dark gray
  • light gray
  • white

Composition

  • central figure
  • background elements on left and right

Dense Caption

The image is a low-resolution pixelated depiction of a person with short dark hair and light skin. The person wears a dark jacket over a light-colored shirt. Behind the person, there is a blue structure on the left and a beige structure on the right, with a light blue background. The image has a grainy, blocky appearance typical of early digital compression. No text or distinct symbols are visible in the image.

Description

Pixelated image of a person with short dark hair wearing a dark jacket over a light shirt, standing in front of a blue and beige background with blurred shapes.

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 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200812261952222062042813

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person dark jacket light shirt
  • pixelated blue beige background
  • central figure blue structure beige structure
  • grainy blocky image

Objects

  • blue structure
  • beige structure

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be upscaled or heavily compressed

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • 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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • person
  • short dark hair
  • dark jacket
  • light shirt
  • blue structure
  • beige structure
  • light blue background
  • grainy
  • blocky
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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
200812261952222062042813
Archive entry
200812261952222062042813.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 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#200812261952222062042813.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200812261952222062042813.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016