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Pixelated grayscale image of a person wearing dark sunglasses and a light-colored cap, facing left with a neutral expression.

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Pixelated grayscale image of a person wearing dark sunglasses and a light-colored cap, facing left with a neutral expression.

Pixelated grayscale image of a person wearing dark sunglasses and a light-colored cap, facing left with a neutral expression. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Franks…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • profile view
  • centered subject
  • plain background

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixel art depicts a figure in profile view facing left. The figure wears large dark sunglasses covering the eyes and a light-toned cap with visible brim detail. Facial features include a defined nose, closed mouth, and ear partially obscured by hair. Background is plain white. Image exhibits low-resolution pixelation typical of early digital graphics. No text or additional objects are present.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale image of a person wearing dark sunglasses and a light-colored cap, facing left with a neutral expression.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071020154017957458546

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixel art sunglasses cap
  • person profile view neutral expression
  • pixelated grayscale image white background

Preprocessing Notes

  • low-resolution pixelation affects facial detail clarity

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

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • sunglasses
  • cap
  • profile view
  • neutral expression
  • white background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071020154017957458546
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 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
icons/57/57e4bbbbfd8e9c7ff591fb96162fa4eb0066d9940896bad1616c4ecd6bbcbb9a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 UTC
Archive ID
57e4bbbbfd8e9c7f
SHA-256
57e4bbbbfd8e9c7ff591fb96162fa4eb0066d9940896bad1616c4ecd6bbcbb9a
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:30 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.075675

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.924325onnx/unsafe0.075675onnx/nsfl0.042988onnx/nsfw0.032687
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Pixelated grayscale image of a person wearing dark sunglasses and a light-colored cap, facing left with a neutral expression.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 11:33 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,291 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,083, response 635

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • cap (object, 0.80)
  • sunglasses (object, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • gray
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • profile view
  • centered subject
  • plain background

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixel art depicts a figure in profile view facing left. The figure wears large dark sunglasses covering the eyes and a light-toned cap with visible brim detail. Facial features include a defined nose, closed mouth, and ear partially obscured by hair. Background is plain white. Image exhibits low-resolution pixelation typical of early digital graphics. No text or additional objects are present.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale image of a person wearing dark sunglasses and a light-colored cap, facing left with a neutral expression.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071020154017957458546

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixel art sunglasses cap
  • person profile view neutral expression
  • pixelated grayscale image white background

Objects

  • sunglasses
  • cap

Preprocessing Notes

  • low-resolution pixelation affects facial detail clarity

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

  • pixel art
  • grayscale

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • sunglasses
  • cap
  • profile view
  • neutral expression
  • white background
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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
20071020154017957458546
Archive entry
20071020154017957458546.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 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#20071020154017957458546.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071020154017957458546.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016