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Pixelated image of a person with dark hair wearing a light-colored shirt, set against a warm-toned background with blurred light sources.

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Pixelated image of a person with dark hair wearing a light-colored shirt, set against a warm-toned background with blurred light sources.

Pixelated image of a person with dark hair wearing a light-colored shirt, set against a warm-toned background with blurred light sources. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Ar…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered subject
  • blurred background
  • warm color palette

Dense Caption

The image is a low-resolution, pixelated static icon. A person with dark hair is centered, wearing a light-colored shirt with a dark collar. The background features blurred warm-toned light sources in yellow and orange hues, with darker brown and black areas. The person's face shows a neutral expression with visible eyes, nose, and mouth. The image has a grainy texture typical of early digital compression. No text or symbols are visible in the pixels.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with dark hair wearing a light-colored shirt, set against a warm-toned background with blurred light sources.

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.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200708242001491696718607

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person dark hair light shirt
  • yellow orange background neutral expression
  • grainy texture centered subject
  • light gray shirt dark collar

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original dimensions

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

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  • pixelated
  • dark hair
  • light-colored shirt
  • dark collar
  • neutral expression
  • yellow light sources
  • orange light sources
  • brown background
  • grainy texture
  • centered subject

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708242001491696718607
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/41/41c2cdf332b5e3aa2129f6271b0372fdbd0d188c57f77e08837dd20f87eea307.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC
Archive ID
41c2cdf332b5e3aa
SHA-256
41c2cdf332b5e3aa2129f6271b0372fdbd0d188c57f77e08837dd20f87eea307
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 14, 2026 at 10:41 UTC
Run
1290
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.023241

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:59 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.149762

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated image of a person with dark hair wearing a light-colored shirt, set against a warm-toned background with blurred light sources.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 04:56 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,609 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,092, response 718

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • grainy (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • yellow
  • orange
  • brown
  • black
  • light gray

Composition

  • centered subject
  • blurred background
  • warm color palette

Dense Caption

The image is a low-resolution, pixelated static icon. A person with dark hair is centered, wearing a light-colored shirt with a dark collar. The background features blurred warm-toned light sources in yellow and orange hues, with darker brown and black areas. The person's face shows a neutral expression with visible eyes, nose, and mouth. The image has a grainy texture typical of early digital compression. No text or symbols are visible in the pixels.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with dark hair wearing a light-colored shirt, set against a warm-toned background with blurred light sources.

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.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200708242001491696718607

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person dark hair light shirt
  • yellow orange background neutral expression
  • grainy texture centered subject
  • light gray shirt dark collar

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original dimensions

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
  • low-resolution
  • grainy

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • dark hair
  • light-colored shirt
  • dark collar
  • neutral expression
  • yellow light sources
  • orange light sources
  • brown background
  • grainy texture
  • centered subject
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 12:58 UTC
Run
52
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
200708242001491696718607
Archive entry
200708242001491696718607.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 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#200708242001491696718607.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708242001491696718607.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016