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Pixelated image of a person in blue shirt with dark hair, surrounded by blurred background figures.

Pixelated image of a person in blue shirt with dark hair, surrounded by blurred background figures. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…,…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central figure dominates foreground
  • multiple background figures

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image shows central figure wearing solid blue short-sleeve shirt. Figure has light skin tone and brown hair styled upward. Background contains multiple indistinct human forms with varying colors including red, white, black, and gray tones. Pixelation obscures fine details of facial features and background elements. No visible text or symbols present in image.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person in blue shirt with dark hair, surrounded by blurred background figures.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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
  • 200802221804281072831517

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue shirt pixelated figure
  • multiple background figures
  • brown hair light skin tone
  • red white black gray tones

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-quality capture

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Wordwall

  • blue short-sleeve shirt
  • light skin tone
  • brown hair
  • pixelated rendering
  • multiple indistinct figures
  • red white black gray background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200802221804281072831517
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:15 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/3f/3fab153dd3f1941d46a939374c4b699a201207f9ed80493d13fb5a6bbe1043b3.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:15 UTC
Archive ID
3fab153dd3f1941d
SHA-256
3fab153dd3f1941d46a939374c4b699a201207f9ed80493d13fb5a6bbe1043b3
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:50 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.080948

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image of a person in blue shirt with dark hair, surrounded by blurred background figures.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 02:21 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,296 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,093, response 677

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light skin tone (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • background figures (subject, 0.80)
  • central figure (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • brown
  • light skin tone
  • red
  • white
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • central figure dominates foreground
  • multiple background figures

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image shows central figure wearing solid blue short-sleeve shirt. Figure has light skin tone and brown hair styled upward. Background contains multiple indistinct human forms with varying colors including red, white, black, and gray tones. Pixelation obscures fine details of facial features and background elements. No visible text or symbols present in image.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person in blue shirt with dark hair, surrounded by blurred background figures.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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
  • 200802221804281072831517

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue shirt pixelated figure
  • multiple background figures
  • brown hair light skin tone
  • red white black gray tones

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-quality capture

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • central figure
  • background figures

Wordwall

  • blue short-sleeve shirt
  • light skin tone
  • brown hair
  • pixelated rendering
  • multiple indistinct figures
  • red white black gray 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
200802221804281072831517
Archive entry
200802221804281072831517.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:15 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#200802221804281072831517.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200802221804281072831517.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016