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Pixelated image of a person with light brown curly hair wearing a white shirt with black collar, standing in front of a blurred background with red and blue elements.

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Pixelated image of a person with light brown curly hair wearing a white shirt with black collar, standing in front of a blurred background with red and blue elements.

Pixelated image of a person with light brown curly hair wearing a white shirt with black collar, standing in front of a blurred background with red and blue elements. Animated 48×…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • cropped to upper body
  • central subject
  • blurred background

Dense Caption

Pixelated image shows a person with light brown curly hair, wearing a white shirt with a black collar. The background contains blurred red and blue elements, possibly shelves or structures. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation, typical of early digital media. No text or additional objects are visible. The person's expression appears neutral. The image is cropped to show the upper body and head.

Description

Pixelated image of a person with light brown curly hair wearing a white shirt with black collar, standing in front of a blurred background with red and blue elements.

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 topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200909271159121115649745
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • light brown curly hair person
  • white shirt black collar
  • red blue background elements
  • pixelated low resolution image
  • neutral expression upper body
  • cropped image
  • blurred background
  • early digital media

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  • light brown curly hair
  • white shirt
  • black collar
  • red background elements
  • blue background elements
  • low resolution
  • pixelated
  • neutral expression
  • upper body
  • cropped image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200909271159121115649745
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/42/42393f6bc6467413e3fef7b758f540fc67a64172ed94eba60ca4b7ec58cbadd2.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 UTC
Archive ID
42393f6bc6467413
SHA-256
42393f6bc6467413e3fef7b758f540fc67a64172ed94eba60ca4b7ec58cbadd2
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 19, 2026 at 22:02 UTC
Run
1315
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000484

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 29, 2026 at 20:43 UTC
Run
1245
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.010228

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:52 UTC
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107
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image of a person with light brown curly hair wearing a white shirt with black collar, standing in front of a blurred background with red and blue elements.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 18:24 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,809 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 738

Review tags

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  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • early digital media (style, 0.80)
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  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • light brown
  • white
  • black
  • red
  • blue

Composition

  • cropped to upper body
  • central subject
  • blurred background

Dense Caption

Pixelated image shows a person with light brown curly hair, wearing a white shirt with a black collar. The background contains blurred red and blue elements, possibly shelves or structures. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation, typical of early digital media. No text or additional objects are visible. The person's expression appears neutral. The image is cropped to show the upper body and head.

Description

Pixelated image of a person with light brown curly hair wearing a white shirt with black collar, standing in front of a blurred background with red and blue elements.

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 topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200909271159121115649745
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • white shirt black collar
  • red blue background elements
  • pixelated low resolution image
  • neutral expression upper body
  • cropped image
  • blurred background
  • early digital media

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  • early digital media

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • light brown curly hair
  • white shirt
  • black collar
  • red background elements
  • blue background elements
  • low resolution
  • pixelated
  • neutral expression
  • upper body
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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
200909271159121115649745
Archive entry
200909271159121115649745.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 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#200909271159121115649745.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200909271159121115649745.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016