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Pixelated close-up of a person wearing dark sunglasses and a dark cap, with light-colored hair visible at the sides, against a blurred outdoor background.

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Pixelated close-up of a person wearing dark sunglasses and a dark cap, with light-colored hair visible at the sides, against a blurred outdoor background.

Pixelated close-up of a person wearing dark sunglasses and a dark cap, with light-colored hair visible at the sides, against a blurred outdoor background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • blurred background

Dense Caption

The image is a static, pixelated close-up of a person's face. The person wears large dark sunglasses covering the eyes and a dark cap. Light brown or blonde hair is visible on the left side of the head. The background is blurred with light and dark patches suggesting an outdoor setting. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital images. No text is visible in the image.

Description

Pixelated close-up of a person wearing dark sunglasses and a dark cap, with light-colored hair visible at the sides, against a blurred outdoor 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person wearing dark sunglasses
  • pixelated close-up
  • light brown hair
  • blurred outdoor background
  • dark cap
  • low-resolution image
  • sunglasses and cap
  • pixelated face

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • close-up
  • dark sunglasses
  • dark cap
  • light brown hair
  • blurred background
  • outdoor setting
  • low-resolution
  • blocky appearance

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090421172308997944369
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/53/533760f78982f9441e0923e9c7c1bcb52f3dc4dccbad6323614908d2a74c3455.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 UTC
Archive ID
533760f78982f944
SHA-256
533760f78982f9441e0923e9c7c1bcb52f3dc4dccbad6323614908d2a74c3455
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:25 UTC
Run
1037
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.064864

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated close-up of a person wearing dark sunglasses and a dark cap, with light-colored hair visible at the sides, against a blurred outdoor background.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 07:33 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,280 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,092, response 646

Review tags

  • blurred (color, 0.80)
  • dark (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • cap (object, 0.80)
  • sunglasses (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • dark
  • light brown
  • blurred

Composition

  • close-up
  • blurred background

Dense Caption

The image is a static, pixelated close-up of a person's face. The person wears large dark sunglasses covering the eyes and a dark cap. Light brown or blonde hair is visible on the left side of the head. The background is blurred with light and dark patches suggesting an outdoor setting. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital images. No text is visible in the image.

Description

Pixelated close-up of a person wearing dark sunglasses and a dark cap, with light-colored hair visible at the sides, against a blurred outdoor 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person wearing dark sunglasses
  • pixelated close-up
  • light brown hair
  • blurred outdoor background
  • dark cap
  • low-resolution image
  • sunglasses and cap
  • pixelated face

Objects

  • sunglasses
  • cap

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • close-up
  • dark sunglasses
  • dark cap
  • light brown hair
  • blurred background
  • outdoor setting
  • low-resolution
  • blocky appearance
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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
20090421172308997944369
Archive entry
20090421172308997944369.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 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#20090421172308997944369.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090421172308997944369.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016