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Pixelated grayscale image of a person with short dark hair wearing a dark jacket over a light collared shirt against a dark background.

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Pixelated grayscale image of a person with short dark hair wearing a dark jacket over a light collared shirt against a dark background.

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered subject
  • dark background
  • close-up crop

Dense Caption

The image is a static, pixelated grayscale photograph of a person with short dark hair styled upward. The person wears a dark jacket with visible lapels over a light-colored collared shirt. The background is dark and indistinct. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation, suggesting it is a small digital icon. No text or symbols are present in the image. The person's expression appears neutral, with eyes looking slightly downward. The lighting is dim, creating high contrast between the subject and background.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale image of a person with short dark hair wearing a dark jacket over a light collared shirt against a dark 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200802271717521542851002
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixelated person
  • dark jacket light collared shirt
  • neutral expression low resolution
  • dark background pixelated

Preprocessing Notes

  • low-resolution pixelation
  • grayscale conversion

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200802271717521542851002
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • short dark hair
  • dark jacket
  • light collared shirt
  • dark background
  • neutral expression
  • low resolution
  • dim lighting
  • high contrast

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200802271717521542851002
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.7 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/3c/3c6f7ac70492630809cd0b5387b4ea361a42982925d704d4e4345b088346c175.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 UTC
Archive ID
3c6f7ac704926308
SHA-256
3c6f7ac70492630809cd0b5387b4ea361a42982925d704d4e4345b088346c175
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 27, 2026 at 18:51 UTC
Run
1196
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.016229

OpenAI category scores

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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
0.090565

OpenAI category scores

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

Pixelated grayscale image of a person with short dark hair wearing a dark jacket over a light collared shirt against a dark background.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 13:24 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,405 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,097, response 772

Review tags

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

Colors

  • gray
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • centered subject
  • dark background
  • close-up crop

Dense Caption

The image is a static, pixelated grayscale photograph of a person with short dark hair styled upward. The person wears a dark jacket with visible lapels over a light-colored collared shirt. The background is dark and indistinct. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation, suggesting it is a small digital icon. No text or symbols are present in the image. The person's expression appears neutral, with eyes looking slightly downward. The lighting is dim, creating high contrast between the subject and background.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale image of a person with short dark hair wearing a dark jacket over a light collared shirt against a dark 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200802271717521542851002
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixelated person
  • dark jacket light collared shirt
  • neutral expression low resolution
  • dark background pixelated

Preprocessing Notes

  • low-resolution pixelation
  • grayscale conversion

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200802271717521542851002
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Style

  • pixelated
  • grayscale
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • short dark hair
  • dark jacket
  • light collared shirt
  • dark background
  • neutral expression
  • low resolution
  • dim lighting
  • high contrast
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 04:20 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
Raw JSON
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
200802271717521542851002
Archive entry
200802271717521542851002.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 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#200802271717521542851002.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200802271717521542851002.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016