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Pixelated grayscale portrait of a person with dark hair and glasses, wearing a light-colored top against a dark background.

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Pixelated grayscale portrait of a person with dark hair and glasses, wearing a light-colored top against a dark background.

Pixelated grayscale portrait of a person with dark hair and glasses, wearing a light-colored top against a dark background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIc…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered face
  • upper body crop
  • dark background

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixelated image shows a person with dark hair and glasses, light-colored top, dark background. The face is centered with visible eyes, nose, mouth, and part of the neck. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation. No text or symbols are present. The person's expression appears neutral. The image is cropped to show the upper body from the shoulders up.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale portrait of a person with dark hair and glasses, wearing a light-colored top 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 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200812241237161343454739

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixelated person
  • dark hair glasses neutral expression
  • upper body crop grayscale
  • pixelated grayscale portrait

Preprocessing Notes

  • low resolution
  • 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

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • dark hair
  • glasses
  • light-colored top
  • dark background
  • neutral expression
  • upper body
  • low resolution
  • centered face
  • no text
  • no symbols
  • shoulders up
  • visible eyes
  • visible mouth
  • visible nose
  • pixelation
  • grayscale tones
  • dark hairline
  • light top collar

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200812241237161343454739
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.9 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/3c/3c8e43c0dec26f1f3029d118f13efaa841d803b88e23a8818abff74bd1f068f2.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 UTC
Archive ID
3c8e43c0dec26f1f
SHA-256
3c8e43c0dec26f1f3029d118f13efaa841d803b88e23a8818abff74bd1f068f2
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 29, 2026 at 00:40 UTC
Run
15963
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000014

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:47 UTC
Run
107
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated grayscale portrait of a person with dark hair and glasses, wearing a light-colored top against a dark background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 15:16 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,395 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,093, response 800

Review tags

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

Colors

  • gray
  • black

Composition

  • centered face
  • upper body crop
  • dark background

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixelated image shows a person with dark hair and glasses, light-colored top, dark background. The face is centered with visible eyes, nose, mouth, and part of the neck. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation. No text or symbols are present. The person's expression appears neutral. The image is cropped to show the upper body from the shoulders up.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale portrait of a person with dark hair and glasses, wearing a light-colored top 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 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200812241237161343454739

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixelated person
  • dark hair glasses neutral expression
  • upper body crop grayscale
  • pixelated grayscale portrait

Preprocessing Notes

  • low resolution
  • pixelated

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • grayscale

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

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  • light-colored top
  • dark background
  • neutral expression
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  • no text
  • no symbols
  • shoulders up
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  • visible mouth
  • visible nose
  • pixelation
  • grayscale tones
  • dark hairline
  • light top collar
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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
200812241237161343454739
Archive entry
200812241237161343454739.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 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#200812241237161343454739.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200812241237161343454739.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016