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Pixelated image of a person with gray hair in blue shirt against blurred background, adjacent to black with blue text

Pixelated image of a person with gray hair in blue shirt against blurred background, adjacent to black with blue text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fran…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split composition
  • left figure
  • right text

Dense Caption

Left side shows pixelated figure with short gray hair wearing blue collared shirt over red undershirt; mouth open in mid-expression. Right side features solid black rectangular area containing blue pixelated text 'i love kara' in lowercase letters. Background behind figure is blurred with indistinct shapes and colors including white, brown, and red tones. Image has low-resolution digital rendering style typical of early 2000s web graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with gray hair in blue shirt against blurred background, adjacent to black with blue text

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • gray hair blue shirt
  • i love kara text
  • pixelated person expression
  • split composition black

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pixelated image of a person with gray hair in blue shirt against blurred background, adjacent to black panel with blue text.
  • quarantined wordwall: black panel
  • quarantined composition: right text panel
  • quarantined retrieval: split composition black panel

Visible Text

  • i love kara

Visually Supported Entities

  • kara

Wordwall

  • gray hair
  • blue shirt
  • red undershirt
  • open mouth
  • black
  • pixelated text
  • i love kara
  • low resolution
  • blurred background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200804260708331181194491
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:24 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/3b/3b6ae8e9f520b37ff98da8f86205d3a940b1784a5a9c108ef975abbe0d19b0b1.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:24 UTC
Archive ID
3b6ae8e9f520b37f
SHA-256
3b6ae8e9f520b37ff98da8f86205d3a940b1784a5a9c108ef975abbe0d19b0b1
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 22, 2026 at 15:43 UTC
Run
93
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.121303

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.913636onnx/unsafe0.121303onnx/nsfw0.072236onnx/nsfl0.049067
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Pixelated image of a person with gray hair in blue shirt against blurred background, adjacent to black with blue text

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 08:50 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,160 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,147, response 573

Review tags

  • mouth open (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • expressive (mood, 0.80)
  • digital rendering (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • mouth open

Colors

  • gray
  • blue
  • red
  • black
  • white
  • brown

Composition

  • split composition
  • left figure
  • right text

Dense Caption

Left side shows pixelated figure with short gray hair wearing blue collared shirt over red undershirt; mouth open in mid-expression. Right side features solid black rectangular area containing blue pixelated text 'i love kara' in lowercase letters. Background behind figure is blurred with indistinct shapes and colors including white, brown, and red tones. Image has low-resolution digital rendering style typical of early 2000s web graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with gray hair in blue shirt against blurred background, adjacent to black with blue text

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

Mood

  • expressive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • gray hair blue shirt
  • i love kara text
  • pixelated person expression
  • split composition black

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pixelated image of a person with gray hair in blue shirt against blurred background, adjacent to black panel with blue text.
  • quarantined wordwall: black panel
  • quarantined composition: right text panel
  • quarantined retrieval: split composition black panel

Style

  • pixelated
  • low resolution
  • digital rendering

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • i love kara

Visually Supported Entities

  • kara

Wordwall

  • gray hair
  • blue shirt
  • red undershirt
  • open mouth
  • black
  • pixelated text
  • i love kara
  • low resolution
  • blurred background
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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
200804260708331181194491
Archive entry
200804260708331181194491.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:24 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#200804260708331181194491.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200804260708331181194491.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016