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Static grayscale image of a person's face with short dark hair, wearing a dark jacket over a light shirt, cropped to show shoulders and upper chest.

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Static grayscale image of a person's face with short dark hair, wearing a dark jacket over a light shirt, cropped to show shoulders and upper chest.

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered face
  • cropped to shoulders

Dense Caption

Grayscale static image showing a person's face with short dark hair, dark eyebrows, and dark eyes. The person has a neutral expression with closed lips. Visible clothing includes a dark jacket with broad shoulders and a light-colored shirt collar. The background is a plain light gray. The image is cropped to show the shoulders and upper chest. Pixelation is visible across the entire image. No text or symbols are present.

Description

Static grayscale image of a person's face with short dark hair, wearing a dark jacket over a light shirt, cropped to show shoulders and upper chest.

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

  • 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

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale person face
  • dark jacket light shirt
  • pixelated neutral expression
  • cropped shoulders

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled

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
  • static
  • short dark hair
  • dark eyebrows
  • closed lips
  • dark jacket
  • light shirt collar
  • plain light gray background
  • pixelated
  • cropped to shoulders

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200812181311091948364311
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 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/40/40eba8b8c27c53835eb0c05c97e7703c74156a5b285c137cec6512bf206ff09b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 UTC
Archive ID
40eba8b8c27c5383
SHA-256
40eba8b8c27c53835eb0c05c97e7703c74156a5b285c137cec6512bf206ff09b
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:51 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.076802

OpenAI category scores

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Static grayscale image of a person's face with short dark hair, wearing a dark jacket over a light shirt, cropped to show shoulders and upper chest.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 14:13 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,360 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,093, response 707

Review tags

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

Colors

  • gray
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • centered face
  • cropped to shoulders

Dense Caption

Grayscale static image showing a person's face with short dark hair, dark eyebrows, and dark eyes. The person has a neutral expression with closed lips. Visible clothing includes a dark jacket with broad shoulders and a light-colored shirt collar. The background is a plain light gray. The image is cropped to show the shoulders and upper chest. Pixelation is visible across the entire image. No text or symbols are present.

Description

Static grayscale image of a person's face with short dark hair, wearing a dark jacket over a light shirt, cropped to show shoulders and upper chest.

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

  • 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

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale person face
  • dark jacket light shirt
  • pixelated neutral expression
  • cropped shoulders

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled

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

  • photorealistic
  • pixelated

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • static
  • short dark hair
  • dark eyebrows
  • closed lips
  • dark jacket
  • light shirt collar
  • plain light gray background
  • pixelated
  • cropped to shoulders
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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
200812181311091948364311
Archive entry
200812181311091948364311.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 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#200812181311091948364311.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200812181311091948364311.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016