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Pixelated close-up of a person with dark curly hair, light skin, and a red tie, wearing a dark jacket over a light shirt against a white background.

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Pixelated close-up of a person with dark curly hair, light skin, and a red tie, wearing a dark jacket over a light shirt against a white background.

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • head and upper torso
  • white background

Dense Caption

Pixelated close-up of a person with dark curly hair, light skin, and a red tie, wearing a dark jacket over a light shirt against a white background. The image shows the person's head and upper torso. The hair is dark brown or black, curly, and covers the top of the head. The skin tone is light. The tie is red with a slight gradient. The jacket is dark gray or black. The shirt is light gray or white. The background is solid white. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated appearance typical of early 2000s digital imagery.

Description

Pixelated close-up of a person with dark curly hair, light skin, and a red tie, wearing a dark jacket over a light shirt against a white 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 topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070821163109417943405
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person dark curly hair red tie
  • pixelated close-up white background
  • dark jacket light shirt
  • low-resolution head upper torso

Wordwall

  • dark curly hair
  • light skin
  • red tie
  • dark jacket
  • light shirt
  • white background
  • pixelated
  • close-up
  • head and upper torso
  • low-resolution

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070821163109417943405
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 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 14:40 UTC
Archive ID
4b777ccbf5d9d6f9
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:15 UTC
Run
1033
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated close-up of a person with dark curly hair, light skin, and a red tie, wearing a dark jacket over a light shirt against a white background.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 03:33 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,327 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,091, response 770

Review tags

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  • red (color, 0.80)
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  • dark brown
  • black
  • light skin
  • red
  • dark gray
  • white

Composition

  • head and upper torso
  • white background

Dense Caption

Pixelated close-up of a person with dark curly hair, light skin, and a red tie, wearing a dark jacket over a light shirt against a white background. The image shows the person's head and upper torso. The hair is dark brown or black, curly, and covers the top of the head. The skin tone is light. The tie is red with a slight gradient. The jacket is dark gray or black. The shirt is light gray or white. The background is solid white. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated appearance typical of early 2000s digital imagery.

Description

Pixelated close-up of a person with dark curly hair, light skin, and a red tie, wearing a dark jacket over a light shirt against a white 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 topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070821163109417943405
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

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  • pixelated close-up white background
  • dark jacket light shirt
  • low-resolution head upper torso

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  • tie
  • jacket
  • shirt

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • close-up

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  • person

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 12:34 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
20070821163109417943405
Archive entry
20070821163109417943405.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#20070821163109417943405.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070821163109417943405.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016