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Pixelated close-up of a person with short dark hair, light skin tone, and visible ear wearing white clothing against dark background.

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Pixelated close-up of a person with short dark hair, light skin tone, and visible ear wearing white clothing against dark background.

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • partial face
  • vertical stripe on right

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image shows partial face and upper torso. Visible features include short dark hair, light brown skin tone, left ear, mouth showing teeth in slight smile, and white collar or shirt. Background is solid black with vertical gray strip on right edge. Image has low resolution with visible pixelation across all elements.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person with short dark hair, light skin tone, and visible ear wearing white clothing against dark background.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200709151823272112190241

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person smiling pixelated image
  • white clothing black background
  • gray vertical stripe face
  • light brown skin short hair

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-quality capture

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains multiple era and collection hints but no pixel evidence supports them

Wordwall

  • short dark hair
  • light brown skin
  • left ear visible
  • white clothing
  • black background
  • gray vertical stripe
  • pixelated image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709151823272112190241
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:46 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.1 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/49/492453de9dd90941e7ee7e149dd2017a752b0e1e3d25e32bb0f599da51496d10.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:46 UTC
Archive ID
492453de9dd90941
SHA-256
492453de9dd90941e7ee7e149dd2017a752b0e1e3d25e32bb0f599da51496d10
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:59 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.085340

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated close-up of a person with short dark hair, light skin tone, and visible ear wearing white clothing against dark background.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 02:28 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,438 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,094, response 638

Review tags

  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling

Colors

  • black
  • gray
  • white
  • light brown

Composition

  • close-up
  • partial face
  • vertical stripe on right

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image shows partial face and upper torso. Visible features include short dark hair, light brown skin tone, left ear, mouth showing teeth in slight smile, and white collar or shirt. Background is solid black with vertical gray strip on right edge. Image has low resolution with visible pixelation across all elements.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person with short dark hair, light skin tone, and visible ear wearing white clothing against dark background.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200709151823272112190241

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person smiling pixelated image
  • white clothing black background
  • gray vertical stripe face
  • light brown skin short hair

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-quality capture

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains multiple era and collection hints but no pixel evidence supports them

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • short dark hair
  • light brown skin
  • left ear visible
  • white clothing
  • black background
  • gray vertical stripe
  • pixelated image
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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
200709151823272112190241
Archive entry
200709151823272112190241.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:46 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#200709151823272112190241.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709151823272112190241.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016