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Pixelated grayscale image of a person with dark hair, mustache, and formal attire holding a dark object near the mouth.

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Pixelated grayscale image of a person with dark hair, mustache, and formal attire holding a dark object near the mouth.

Pixelated grayscale image of a person with dark hair, mustache, and formal attire holding a dark object near the mouth. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • cropped upper body
  • light background

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixelated image shows a person with dark hair, mustache, and formal attire. The person holds a dark object near the mouth. The background is light. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation. The person's expression appears neutral. The object held is dark and elongated. The attire includes a light-colored collar. The hair is dark and styled. The image is cropped to show the upper body and head.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale image of a person with dark hair, mustache, and formal attire holding a dark object near the mouth.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixelated person mustache
  • person holding dark object
  • cropped upper body grayscale
  • neutral expression pixelated

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
  • mustache
  • formal attire
  • light collar
  • dark object
  • neutral expression
  • low resolution
  • cropped upper body

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200711271929511390687764
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:00 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/3d/3d7eaf2d6d58d9a3805511f57a84e51442c1ee3646f79f99ba36010ad4df8607.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:00 UTC
Archive ID
3d7eaf2d6d58d9a3
SHA-256
3d7eaf2d6d58d9a3805511f57a84e51442c1ee3646f79f99ba36010ad4df8607
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:48 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.067080

OpenAI category scores

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

Pixelated grayscale image of a person with dark hair, mustache, and formal attire holding a dark object near the mouth.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 11:58 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,537 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,095, response 659

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • dark object (object, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding

Colors

  • gray
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • cropped upper body
  • light background

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixelated image shows a person with dark hair, mustache, and formal attire. The person holds a dark object near the mouth. The background is light. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation. The person's expression appears neutral. The object held is dark and elongated. The attire includes a light-colored collar. The hair is dark and styled. The image is cropped to show the upper body and head.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale image of a person with dark hair, mustache, and formal attire holding a dark object near the mouth.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixelated person mustache
  • person holding dark object
  • cropped upper body grayscale
  • neutral expression pixelated

Objects

  • dark object

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • grayscale

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • dark hair
  • mustache
  • formal attire
  • light collar
  • dark object
  • neutral expression
  • low resolution
  • cropped upper body
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 21:39 UTC
Run
53
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)
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
200711271929511390687764
Archive entry
200711271929511390687764.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:00 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#200711271929511390687764.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200711271929511390687764.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016