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Pixelated static image of a person with dark hair and light skin wearing a dark top, positioned against a blurred background.

Pixelated static image of a person with dark hair and light skin wearing a dark top, positioned against a blurred background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Franks…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • partial view
  • centered figure
  • vertical framing

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image shows partial view of a figure from shoulders up. Figure has short dark hair, light skin tone, and wears dark clothing. Background consists of indistinct light-colored vertical elements on left and right edges with central area in darker tones. Image quality is low-resolution with visible pixelation across all areas.

Description

  • Pixelated static image of a person with dark hair and light skin wearing a dark top, positioned against a blurred background.

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
  • 200709231854571933198338

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person dark hair light skin
  • static image dark clothing blurred background
  • vertical elements pixelated figure
  • low-resolution static portrait

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be a cropped section of larger image with no visible motion or animation

Source Metadata Interpretation

untrustedSourceHintsJson contains multiple era and collection references but pixels show only static content without supporting evidence for specific topics like anime, celebrities, games, holidays, humor

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • static image
  • dark hair
  • light skin
  • dark clothing
  • blurred background
  • vertical elements

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709231854571933198338
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:47 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/39/39ae5acecff5206df12f74b5d9a7d2f87a996c2676647b2266de6838aa151213.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:47 UTC
Archive ID
39ae5acecff5206d
SHA-256
39ae5acecff5206df12f74b5d9a7d2f87a996c2676647b2266de6838aa151213
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:41 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.084941

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.915059onnx/unsafe0.084941onnx/nsfw0.046240onnx/nsfl0.038701
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Pixelated static image of a person with dark hair and light skin wearing a dark top, positioned against a blurred background.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 04:27 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,007 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,092, response 636

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • dark gray (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • dark gray
  • light gray
  • purple
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • partial view
  • centered figure
  • vertical framing

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image shows partial view of a figure from shoulders up. Figure has short dark hair, light skin tone, and wears dark clothing. Background consists of indistinct light-colored vertical elements on left and right edges with central area in darker tones. Image quality is low-resolution with visible pixelation across all areas.

Description

  • Pixelated static image of a person with dark hair and light skin wearing a dark top, positioned against a blurred background.

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
  • 200709231854571933198338

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person dark hair light skin
  • static image dark clothing blurred background
  • vertical elements pixelated figure
  • low-resolution static portrait

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be a cropped section of larger image with no visible motion or animation

Source Metadata Interpretation

untrustedSourceHintsJson contains multiple era and collection references but pixels show only static content without supporting evidence for specific topics like anime, celebrities, games, holidays, humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • static image
  • dark hair
  • light skin
  • dark clothing
  • blurred background
  • vertical elements
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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
200709231854571933198338
Archive entry
200709231854571933198338.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:47 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#200709231854571933198338.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709231854571933198338.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016