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Pixelated grayscale image of a person with dark hair, wearing a light-colored shirt and holding a rectangular object near their chest.

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Pixelated grayscale image of a person with dark hair, wearing a light-colored shirt and holding a rectangular object near their chest.

Pixelated grayscale image of a person with dark hair, wearing a light-colored shirt and holding a rectangular object near their chest. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archi…

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Source terms

Composition

  • shoulders-up view
  • central figure
  • indistinct background

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixelated static icon showing a figure from the shoulders up. The figure has dark hair styled in long strands framing the face. Facial features include eyes, nose, mouth, and visible cheekbones. The figure wears a light-toned collared shirt with a darker tie or neckband. A rectangular object is held close to the chest area. Background consists of indistinct light and dark pixel clusters without discernible shapes. Pixelation obscures fine details but preserves overall form and contrast.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale image of a person with dark hair, wearing a light-colored shirt and holding a rectangular object near their chest.

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: 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.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20090921161549474496757

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixelated person dark hair collared shirt rectangular object
  • person holding rectangular object grayscale icon
  • shoulders-up view pixelated grayscale figure

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution from original source

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 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

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • dark hair
  • collared shirt
  • rectangular object
  • shoulders-up view
  • light-toned clothing
  • indistinct background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090921161549474496757
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 UTC
Archive ID
434feedc6f08f48d
SHA-256
434feedc6f08f48d7a708569b8690a961cbd95471ce5d5f68596296c82d7bc73
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Assessed
August 8, 2026 at 04:25 UTC
Run
1275
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
0.001265

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July 23, 2026 at 07:54 UTC
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Pixelated grayscale image of a person with dark hair, wearing a light-colored shirt and holding a rectangular object near their chest.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 18:08 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,025 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,091, response 702

Review tags

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  • white (color, 0.80)
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  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • shoulders-up view
  • central figure
  • indistinct background

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixelated static icon showing a figure from the shoulders up. The figure has dark hair styled in long strands framing the face. Facial features include eyes, nose, mouth, and visible cheekbones. The figure wears a light-toned collared shirt with a darker tie or neckband. A rectangular object is held close to the chest area. Background consists of indistinct light and dark pixel clusters without discernible shapes. Pixelation obscures fine details but preserves overall form and contrast.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale image of a person with dark hair, wearing a light-colored shirt and holding a rectangular object near their chest.

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: 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.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20090921161549474496757

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixelated person dark hair collared shirt rectangular object
  • person holding rectangular object grayscale icon
  • shoulders-up view pixelated grayscale figure

Objects

  • rectangular object

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution from original source

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 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
  • grayscale

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • dark hair
  • collared shirt
  • rectangular object
  • shoulders-up view
  • light-toned clothing
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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
20090921161549474496757
Archive entry
20090921161549474496757.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#20090921161549474496757.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090921161549474496757.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016