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A grayscale pixelated image shows a partial view of a figure with a rounded head and dark hair, set against a light background with diagonal lines.

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A grayscale pixelated image shows a partial view of a figure with a rounded head and dark hair, set against a light background with diagonal lines.

A grayscale pixelated image shows a partial view of a figure with a rounded head and dark hair, set against a light background with diagonal lines. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from I…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • partial view
  • centered head
  • diagonal background lines
  • black lower-left corner

Dense Caption

The image is a grayscale pixelated static icon. It shows a partial view of a figure with a rounded head and dark hair. The figure's head is positioned slightly left of center, with the right side of the head and part of the face visible. The background consists of light gray tones with diagonal dark gray lines. The lower-left corner contains a solid black area. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance with visible pixelation.

Description

A grayscale pixelated image shows a partial view of a figure with a rounded head and dark hair, set against a light background with diagonal lines.

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

  • grayscale pixelated figure
  • partial head dark hair
  • diagonal lines background
  • black lower-left corner
  • low-resolution blocky icon
  • grayscale partial figure
  • pixelated dark hair
  • diagonal background lines

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  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • partial figure
  • rounded head
  • dark hair
  • light background
  • diagonal lines
  • black lower-left corner
  • low-resolution
  • blocky appearance

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708291707281063796784
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.8 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/3b/3bf7e5cce081205727d8beb14b138aac232c6e48dfb6be7f99ad0ad17cd27985.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 UTC
Archive ID
3bf7e5cce0812057
SHA-256
3bf7e5cce081205727d8beb14b138aac232c6e48dfb6be7f99ad0ad17cd27985
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:46 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.116780

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A grayscale pixelated image shows a partial view of a figure with a rounded head and dark hair, set against a light background with diagonal lines.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 07:10 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,254 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,088, response 656

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • partial figure (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • gray
  • black

Composition

  • partial view
  • centered head
  • diagonal background lines
  • black lower-left corner

Dense Caption

The image is a grayscale pixelated static icon. It shows a partial view of a figure with a rounded head and dark hair. The figure's head is positioned slightly left of center, with the right side of the head and part of the face visible. The background consists of light gray tones with diagonal dark gray lines. The lower-left corner contains a solid black area. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance with visible pixelation.

Description

A grayscale pixelated image shows a partial view of a figure with a rounded head and dark hair, set against a light background with diagonal lines.

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

  • grayscale pixelated figure
  • partial head dark hair
  • diagonal lines background
  • black lower-left corner
  • low-resolution blocky icon
  • grayscale partial figure
  • pixelated dark hair
  • diagonal background lines

Style

  • pixelated
  • grayscale

Subjects

  • partial figure

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • partial figure
  • rounded head
  • dark hair
  • light background
  • diagonal lines
  • black lower-left corner
  • low-resolution
  • blocky appearance
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 13:35 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
200708291707281063796784
Archive entry
200708291707281063796784.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 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#200708291707281063796784.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708291707281063796784.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016