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A pixelated image of a person with long dark hair wearing a dark top, featuring overlaid text in the right portion.

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A pixelated image of a person with long dark hair wearing a dark top, featuring overlaid text in the right portion.

A pixelated image of a person with long dark hair wearing a dark top, featuring overlaid text in the right portion. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksI…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered subject
  • text overlaid on face

Dense Caption

The image shows a close-up of a person's face and upper shoulders. The individual has long dark hair and is wearing a dark-colored top. The background is dark and indistinct. On the right side of the image, there is pixelated black text overlaid on the face; the visible portion reads "FVCKH" above what appears to be "a S" or similar characters. The overall resolution is low with heavy pixelation.

Description

  • A pixelated image of a person with long dark hair wearing a dark top, featuring overlaid text in the right portion.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person text FVCKH
  • low-resolution face dark hair
  • text a S overlaid
  • dark top pixelated image

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be upscaled or low-quality capture

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

Visible Text

  • FVCKH
  • a S

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • long dark hair
  • dark top
  • pixelated face
  • overlaid text
  • low-resolution image
  • text: FVCKH
  • text: a S

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071230172255588982239
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:07 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.5 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/50/507c4b9b7cdbcb08db932ccf17bdb5995cb366e2faefc8114d8c44d451b58f5d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:07 UTC
Archive ID
507c4b9b7cdbcb08
SHA-256
507c4b9b7cdbcb08db932ccf17bdb5995cb366e2faefc8114d8c44d451b58f5d
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:21 UTC
Run
1034
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.221006

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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A pixelated image of a person with long dark hair wearing a dark top, featuring overlaid text in the right portion.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 06:07 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,083 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,141, response 659

Review tags

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

Colors

  • dark gray
  • black
  • light brown

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered subject
  • text overlaid on face

Dense Caption

The image shows a close-up of a person's face and upper shoulders. The individual has long dark hair and is wearing a dark-colored top. The background is dark and indistinct. On the right side of the image, there is pixelated black text overlaid on the face; the visible portion reads "FVCKH" above what appears to be "a S" or similar characters. The overall resolution is low with heavy pixelation.

Description

  • A pixelated image of a person with long dark hair wearing a dark top, featuring overlaid text in the right portion.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person text FVCKH
  • low-resolution face dark hair
  • text a S overlaid
  • dark top pixelated image

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be upscaled or low-quality capture

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
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • FVCKH
  • a S

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • long dark hair
  • dark top
  • pixelated face
  • overlaid text
  • low-resolution image
  • text: FVCKH
  • text: a S
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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
20071230172255588982239
Archive entry
20071230172255588982239.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:07 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#20071230172255588982239.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071230172255588982239.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016