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A pixelated close-up of a figure with brown hair and dark clothing against a light background, showing partial facial features and a blurred environment.

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A pixelated close-up of a figure with brown hair and dark clothing against a light background, showing partial facial features and a blurred environment.

A pixelated close-up of a figure with brown hair and dark clothing against a light background, showing partial facial features and a blurred environment. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon…

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Source terms

Composition

  • cropped
  • close-up
  • tight framing

Dense Caption

The image is a heavily pixelated close-up of a figure with brown hair and dark clothing. Visible elements include a partial face with light skin tone, dark eyes, and a nose. The background is light-colored with indistinct shapes. The figure's clothing appears dark, possibly black or dark brown. The image has low resolution and high pixelation, obscuring fine details. No text or distinct symbols are visible. The composition is cropped tightly around the figure's upper body and face.

Description

A pixelated close-up of a figure with brown hair and dark clothing against a light background, showing partial facial features and a blurred environment.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated figure brown hair dark clothing
  • low resolution close-up face
  • cropped composition light background
  • brown hair dark clothing pixelated

Subjects

  • figure

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • brown hair
  • dark clothing
  • light background
  • partial face
  • low resolution
  • cropped composition
  • indistinct shapes

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090222170242383944673
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/37/37d1fba7e964aff2851d501f608824bacd519800e51a4306630b23feeb704af8.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 UTC
Archive ID
37d1fba7e964aff2
SHA-256
37d1fba7e964aff2851d501f608824bacd519800e51a4306630b23feeb704af8
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:42 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.063843

OpenAI category scores

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A pixelated close-up of a figure with brown hair and dark clothing against a light background, showing partial facial features and a blurred environment.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 00:17 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,593 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,090, response 641

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light beige (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • figure (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • brown
  • dark brown
  • black
  • light beige
  • gray

Composition

  • cropped
  • close-up
  • tight framing

Dense Caption

The image is a heavily pixelated close-up of a figure with brown hair and dark clothing. Visible elements include a partial face with light skin tone, dark eyes, and a nose. The background is light-colored with indistinct shapes. The figure's clothing appears dark, possibly black or dark brown. The image has low resolution and high pixelation, obscuring fine details. No text or distinct symbols are visible. The composition is cropped tightly around the figure's upper body and face.

Description

A pixelated close-up of a figure with brown hair and dark clothing against a light background, showing partial facial features and a blurred environment.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated figure brown hair dark clothing
  • low resolution close-up face
  • cropped composition light background
  • brown hair dark clothing pixelated

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • figure

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • brown hair
  • dark clothing
  • light background
  • partial face
  • low resolution
  • cropped composition
  • indistinct shapes
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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
20090222170242383944673
Archive entry
20090222170242383944673.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 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#20090222170242383944673.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090222170242383944673.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016