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Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair wearing sunglasses and a white shirt against a blue background.

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Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair wearing sunglasses and a white shirt against a blue background.

Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair wearing sunglasses and a white shirt against a blue background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bud…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • profile view
  • partial face
  • asymmetrical background

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image shows partial face in profile view. Subject has voluminous dark curly hair, dark sunglasses covering eyes, light skin tone, visible ear, and mouth showing slight smile. Wearing plain white sleeveless top. Background consists of solid blue on right side and grayish tones on left. Image exhibits low-resolution digital rendering with blocky pixelation typical of early 2000s web graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair wearing sunglasses and a white shirt against a blue background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • 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
  • 200901181835471600791389
  • franksicons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • dark curly hair sunglasses white shirt blue background
  • profile view person with sunglasses
  • pixelated image dark hair blue background
  • white sleeveless top profile

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from smaller original

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • dark curly hair
  • sunglasses
  • white shirt
  • blue background
  • gray background
  • profile view
  • slight smile
  • light skin tone

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200901181835471600791389
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/4f/4fdde9212a4c0cc8cf96705896a6104df47b3c9567d7bbb56edbb261eaa68c37.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 UTC
Archive ID
4fdde9212a4c0cc8
SHA-256
4fdde9212a4c0cc8cf96705896a6104df47b3c9567d7bbb56edbb261eaa68c37
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 18, 2026 at 19:05 UTC
Run
1312
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000023

OpenAI category scores

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 29, 2026 at 15:39 UTC
Run
1245
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.010147

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:16 UTC
Run
1033
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.523233

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair wearing sunglasses and a white shirt against a blue background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 19:01 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,486 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,090, response 727

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • casual (mood, 0.80)
  • relaxed (mood, 0.80)
  • sunglasses (object, 0.80)
  • digital rendering (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • dark blue
  • gray
  • white
  • black
  • light brown

Composition

  • close-up
  • profile view
  • partial face
  • asymmetrical background

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image shows partial face in profile view. Subject has voluminous dark curly hair, dark sunglasses covering eyes, light skin tone, visible ear, and mouth showing slight smile. Wearing plain white sleeveless top. Background consists of solid blue on right side and grayish tones on left. Image exhibits low-resolution digital rendering with blocky pixelation typical of early 2000s web graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair wearing sunglasses and a white shirt against a blue background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • 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
  • 200901181835471600791389
  • franksicons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • casual
  • relaxed

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • dark curly hair sunglasses white shirt blue background
  • profile view person with sunglasses
  • pixelated image dark hair blue background
  • white sleeveless top profile

Objects

  • sunglasses

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from smaller original

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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
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  • digital rendering

Subjects

  • person

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • dark curly hair
  • sunglasses
  • white shirt
  • blue background
  • gray background
  • profile view
  • slight smile
  • light skin tone
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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
200901181835471600791389
Archive entry
200901181835471600791389.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 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#200901181835471600791389.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200901181835471600791389.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016