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Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair and a dark jacket against a blue background with light blue and white pixel clusters.

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Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair and a dark jacket against a blue background with light blue and white pixel clusters.

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • face angled left
  • background with clusters

Dense Caption

Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair and a dark jacket against a blue background with light blue and white pixel clusters. The person's face is angled slightly left, with visible eyes, nose, and mouth. The background features a gradient of blue tones with scattered light blue and white pixel clusters. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics. No text or symbols are visible on the person or background.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair and a dark jacket against a blue background with light blue and white pixel clusters.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200708211758392002069496

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person dark hair dark jacket blue background
  • low-resolution face angled left
  • blue background light blue white clusters
  • pixelated close-up dark jacket

Preprocessing Notes

  • low-resolution
  • blocky appearance

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

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • close-up
  • dark hair
  • dark jacket
  • blue background
  • light blue clusters
  • white clusters
  • low-resolution
  • blocky appearance
  • face angled left
  • eyes visible
  • nose visible
  • mouth visible

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708211758392002069496
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/42/429e52698b0dae6488d3e04806b079c572acdd0bcca549c60dee35fa34fff2c1.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 UTC
Archive ID
429e52698b0dae64
SHA-256
429e52698b0dae6488d3e04806b079c572acdd0bcca549c60dee35fa34fff2c1
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:53 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.072331

OpenAI category scores

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

Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair and a dark jacket against a blue background with light blue and white pixel clusters.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 03:37 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,978 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,089, response 712

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • dark brown (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • tan (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
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  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • light blue
  • white
  • dark brown
  • tan

Composition

  • close-up
  • face angled left
  • background with clusters

Dense Caption

Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair and a dark jacket against a blue background with light blue and white pixel clusters. The person's face is angled slightly left, with visible eyes, nose, and mouth. The background features a gradient of blue tones with scattered light blue and white pixel clusters. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics. No text or symbols are visible on the person or background.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair and a dark jacket against a blue background with light blue and white pixel clusters.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200708211758392002069496

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person dark hair dark jacket blue background
  • low-resolution face angled left
  • blue background light blue white clusters
  • pixelated close-up dark jacket

Preprocessing Notes

  • low-resolution
  • blocky appearance

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

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  • dark hair
  • dark jacket
  • blue background
  • light blue clusters
  • white clusters
  • low-resolution
  • blocky appearance
  • face angled left
  • eyes visible
  • nose visible
  • mouth visible
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 12:35 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)
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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
200708211758392002069496
Archive entry
200708211758392002069496.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 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#200708211758392002069496.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708211758392002069496.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016