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Pixelated static image of a person with short dark hair, neutral expression, and visible ear, set against a dark background with partial text at the bottom.

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Pixelated static image of a person with short dark hair, neutral expression, and visible ear, set against a dark background with partial text at the bottom.

Pixelated static image of a person with short dark hair, neutral expression, and visible ear, set against a dark background with partial text at the bottom. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy ic…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • profile view
  • head and shoulders
  • text at bottom

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image shows a person's head and upper shoulders in profile view, facing right. The person has short dark hair, visible ear, and neutral facial expression with closed mouth. The background is solid black. At the bottom of the image, there is a row of white pixelated text that appears to be 'HONOR' or similar, with some characters indistinct due to pixelation. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation throughout, typical of early 2000s digital graphics. The person's skin tone is light, and the overall color palette is limited to shades of gray, black, and white.

Description

Pixelated static image of a person with short dark hair, neutral expression, and visible ear, set against a dark background with partial text at the bottom.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Metadata Only Entities

  • celebrities

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated profile head
  • black background white text
  • HONOR text
  • low resolution early 2000s
  • neutral expression profile
  • white text at bottom
  • short dark hair profile
  • buddy icon pixelated

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be upscaled or low-resolution capture

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

Visible Text

  • HONOR

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • profile view
  • short dark hair
  • visible ear
  • neutral expression
  • closed mouth
  • black background
  • white text at bottom
  • low resolution
  • light skin tone
  • gray black white palette
  • HONOR text
  • static image
  • head and shoulders
  • early 2000s graphics

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708262202081315063523
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
2.3 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/45/45248cc297a04b6d4832e8abad01cb4cc69fed1ef3fb6ac0b1fd0e40a0562dde.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC
Archive ID
45248cc297a04b6d
SHA-256
45248cc297a04b6d4832e8abad01cb4cc69fed1ef3fb6ac0b1fd0e40a0562dde
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:55 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.078371

OpenAI category scores

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

Pixelated static image of a person with short dark hair, neutral expression, and visible ear, set against a dark background with partial text at the bottom.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 05:57 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,273 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,086, response 798

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • early 2000s digital graphics (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • profile view
  • head and shoulders
  • text at bottom

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image shows a person's head and upper shoulders in profile view, facing right. The person has short dark hair, visible ear, and neutral facial expression with closed mouth. The background is solid black. At the bottom of the image, there is a row of white pixelated text that appears to be 'HONOR' or similar, with some characters indistinct due to pixelation. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation throughout, typical of early 2000s digital graphics. The person's skin tone is light, and the overall color palette is limited to shades of gray, black, and white.

Description

Pixelated static image of a person with short dark hair, neutral expression, and visible ear, set against a dark background with partial text at the bottom.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Metadata Only Entities

  • celebrities

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated profile head
  • black background white text
  • HONOR text
  • low resolution early 2000s
  • neutral expression profile
  • white text at bottom
  • short dark hair profile
  • buddy icon pixelated

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be upscaled or low-resolution capture

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • 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
  • low-resolution
  • early 2000s digital graphics

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • HONOR

Wordwall

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  • profile view
  • short dark hair
  • visible ear
  • neutral expression
  • closed mouth
  • black background
  • white text at bottom
  • low resolution
  • light skin tone
  • gray black white palette
  • HONOR text
  • static image
  • head and shoulders
  • early 2000s graphics
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 13:16 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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TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
200708262202081315063523
Archive entry
200708262202081315063523.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#200708262202081315063523.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708262202081315063523.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016