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Pixelated portrait of a person with dark hair, light skin, and a neutral expression wearing a dark shirt against a light background.

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Pixelated portrait of a person with dark hair, light skin, and a neutral expression wearing a dark shirt against a light background.

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered
  • upper-body portrait
  • light background

Dense Caption

Pixelated static image of a person with short dark hair, light skin tone, and a neutral facial expression. The person wears a dark-colored shirt with visible collar and shoulder details. Background is a light, uniform color with subtle gradient. Image has low resolution with visible pixelation across all elements. No text or symbols are present. Composition is centered on the upper body and head. The image shows no motion or animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated portrait of a person with dark hair, light skin, and a neutral expression wearing a dark shirt against a light background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • celebrities

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person dark hair
  • low resolution neutral expression
  • dark shirt light background
  • static upper body portrait

Preprocessing Notes

  • pixelation
  • 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

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • dark hair
  • light skin
  • neutral expression
  • dark shirt
  • light background
  • low resolution
  • centered composition
  • no text
  • static image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200707251938371618905271
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:33 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/36/36e76f2b6dcb12f5de2e149a054c07487d22a54b5a4211b29ada05e46722d59e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:33 UTC
Archive ID
36e76f2b6dcb12f5
SHA-256
36e76f2b6dcb12f5de2e149a054c07487d22a54b5a4211b29ada05e46722d59e
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 10, 2026 at 18:53 UTC
Run
1281
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001163

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:41 UTC
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107
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Overall label
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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated portrait of a person with dark hair, light skin, and a neutral expression wearing a dark shirt against a light background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 14:28 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,059 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,096, response 629

Review tags

  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • dark brown (color, 0.80)
  • light beige (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • dark brown
  • light beige
  • white
  • dark blue

Composition

  • centered
  • upper-body portrait
  • light background

Dense Caption

Pixelated static image of a person with short dark hair, light skin tone, and a neutral facial expression. The person wears a dark-colored shirt with visible collar and shoulder details. Background is a light, uniform color with subtle gradient. Image has low resolution with visible pixelation across all elements. No text or symbols are present. Composition is centered on the upper body and head. The image shows no motion or animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated portrait of a person with dark hair, light skin, and a neutral expression wearing a dark shirt against a light background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • celebrities

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person dark hair
  • low resolution neutral expression
  • dark shirt light background
  • static upper body portrait

Preprocessing Notes

  • pixelation
  • 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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • static

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • dark hair
  • light skin
  • neutral expression
  • dark shirt
  • light background
  • low resolution
  • centered composition
  • no text
  • static image
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 09:16 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)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
200707251938371618905271
Archive entry
200707251938371618905271.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:33 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#200707251938371618905271.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200707251938371618905271.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016