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Pixelated close-up of a person with brown skin tone wearing a checkered shirt with white and dark gray squares, set against a dark background.

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Pixelated close-up of a person with brown skin tone wearing a checkered shirt with white and dark gray squares, set against a dark background.

Pixelated close-up of a person with brown skin tone wearing a checkered shirt with white and dark gray squares, set against a dark background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Intern…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered face
  • dark background

Dense Caption

Pixelated close-up of a person with brown skin tone wearing a checkered shirt with white and dark gray squares. The shirt has a visible collar and appears to be a long-sleeve garment. The background is solid dark color. The person's face is centered in the frame with visible eyes, nose, and mouth. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation across all elements.

Description

Pixelated close-up of a person with brown skin tone wearing a checkered shirt with white and dark gray squares, set against a dark background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080902095551613044620

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown skin checkered shirt
  • pixelated person dark background
  • white gray checkered shirt
  • low resolution face

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be upscaled from smaller original

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 topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Wordwall

  • brown skin tone
  • checkered shirt
  • white and dark gray squares
  • long-sleeve garment
  • dark background
  • low resolution
  • pixelated
  • centered face
  • visible eyes
  • visible nose
  • visible mouth

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080902095551613044620
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC

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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/50/503dace632d5fa34277d6395c5c717baa46b73577b2f9d07aaa1e7eb461d8d0e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC
Archive ID
503dace632d5fa34
SHA-256
503dace632d5fa34277d6395c5c717baa46b73577b2f9d07aaa1e7eb461d8d0e
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 16, 2026 at 13:47 UTC
Run
1298
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.002771

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:20 UTC
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1034
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Overall label
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Overall score
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Pixelated close-up of a person with brown skin tone wearing a checkered shirt with white and dark gray squares, set against a dark background.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 22:38 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,593 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,091, response 690

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • checkered shirt (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • brown
  • white
  • dark gray
  • black

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered face
  • dark background

Dense Caption

Pixelated close-up of a person with brown skin tone wearing a checkered shirt with white and dark gray squares. The shirt has a visible collar and appears to be a long-sleeve garment. The background is solid dark color. The person's face is centered in the frame with visible eyes, nose, and mouth. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation across all elements.

Description

Pixelated close-up of a person with brown skin tone wearing a checkered shirt with white and dark gray squares, set against a dark background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080902095551613044620

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown skin checkered shirt
  • pixelated person dark background
  • white gray checkered shirt
  • low resolution face

Objects

  • checkered shirt

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be upscaled from smaller original

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 topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • low resolution

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • brown skin tone
  • checkered shirt
  • white and dark gray squares
  • long-sleeve garment
  • dark background
  • low resolution
  • pixelated
  • centered face
  • visible eyes
  • visible nose
  • visible mouth
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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
20080902095551613044620
Archive entry
20080902095551613044620.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 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#20080902095551613044620.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080902095551613044620.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016