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A pixelated portrait of a person with dark hair and a white shirt, featuring a red pixelated symbol on the right side of the head.

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A pixelated portrait of a person with dark hair and a white shirt, featuring a red pixelated symbol on the right side of the head.

A pixelated portrait of a person with dark hair and a white shirt, featuring a red pixelated symbol on the right side of the head. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive F…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered subject
  • red symbol on right head side

Dense Caption

The image is a pixelated portrait of a person with dark, shoulder-length hair and a white shirt. The person is smiling with eyes partially closed. A red pixelated symbol resembling a stylized 'C' or 'G' is positioned on the right side of the head. The background is indistinct with dark and light tones. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • A pixelated portrait of a person with dark hair and a white shirt, featuring a red pixelated symbol on the right side of the head.

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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200707261947571928398428

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person red symbol
  • smiling dark hair white shirt
  • red symbol on head
  • low-resolution portrait

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or pixelated

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 portrait
  • dark hair
  • white shirt
  • smiling
  • red symbol
  • indistinct background
  • low-resolution
  • blocky appearance

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200707261947571928398428
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:34 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.8 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/38/38081a1fa83f309377350f5f7cacc08b08af63f840ee4af8c8f2f48cb7577f49.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:34 UTC
Archive ID
38081a1fa83f3093
SHA-256
38081a1fa83f309377350f5f7cacc08b08af63f840ee4af8c8f2f48cb7577f49
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
0.084724

OpenAI category scores

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

A pixelated portrait of a person with dark hair and a white shirt, featuring a red pixelated symbol on the right side of the head.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 14:58 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,934 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,093, response 769

Review tags

  • eyes partially closed (action, 0.80)
  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • dark brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • red symbol (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling
  • eyes partially closed

Colors

  • dark brown
  • white
  • red
  • gray

Composition

  • centered subject
  • red symbol on right head side

Dense Caption

The image is a pixelated portrait of a person with dark, shoulder-length hair and a white shirt. The person is smiling with eyes partially closed. A red pixelated symbol resembling a stylized 'C' or 'G' is positioned on the right side of the head. The background is indistinct with dark and light tones. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • A pixelated portrait of a person with dark hair and a white shirt, featuring a red pixelated symbol on the right side of the head.

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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200707261947571928398428

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • happy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person red symbol
  • smiling dark hair white shirt
  • red symbol on head
  • low-resolution portrait

Objects

  • red symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or pixelated

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • 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

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • pixelated portrait
  • dark hair
  • white shirt
  • smiling
  • red symbol
  • indistinct background
  • low-resolution
  • blocky appearance
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 09:24 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
200707261947571928398428
Archive entry
200707261947571928398428.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:34 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#200707261947571928398428.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200707261947571928398428.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016