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A pixelated image shows a person with dark hair on the left and a blue background with '03' in white pixelated numbers on the right.

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A pixelated image shows a person with dark hair on the left and a blue background with '03' in white pixelated numbers on the right.

A pixelated image shows a person with dark hair on the left and a blue background with '03' in white pixelated numbers on the right. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Interne…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split left-right
  • left: close-up
  • right: solid background

Dense Caption

The image is split into two sections. On the left, a pixelated close-up shows a person with dark hair and light skin. On the right, a solid blue background displays the white pixelated numbers '03' with black outlines. The left section has a blurred, low-resolution appearance with visible pixelation. The right section's numbers are rendered in a blocky, retro digital style. The overall image has a low-resolution, pixelated aesthetic typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • A pixelated image shows a person with dark hair on the left and a blue background with '03' in white pixelated numbers on the right.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person dark hair blue background 03
  • 03 blue background white numbers
  • split composition pixelated numbers
  • low-resolution blue background 03

Visible Text

  • 03

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • dark hair
  • light skin
  • blue background
  • 03
  • white numbers
  • black outlines
  • blocky style
  • low-resolution
  • split composition

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080712220528347482142
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.7 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/5f/5f69fc16e050a1431352d070853106297a4b182a2185fd62a25095623386051a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 UTC
Archive ID
5f69fc16e050a143
SHA-256
5f69fc16e050a1431352d070853106297a4b182a2185fd62a25095623386051a
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:38 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.084915

OpenAI category scores

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A pixelated image shows a person with dark hair on the left and a blue background with '03' in white pixelated numbers on the right.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 12:07 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,109 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,149, response 675

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • dark hair (color, 0.80)
  • light skin (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • numbers (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • black
  • light skin
  • dark hair

Composition

  • split left-right
  • left: close-up
  • right: solid background

Dense Caption

The image is split into two sections. On the left, a pixelated close-up shows a person with dark hair and light skin. On the right, a solid blue background displays the white pixelated numbers '03' with black outlines. The left section has a blurred, low-resolution appearance with visible pixelation. The right section's numbers are rendered in a blocky, retro digital style. The overall image has a low-resolution, pixelated aesthetic typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • A pixelated image shows a person with dark hair on the left and a blue background with '03' in white pixelated numbers on the right.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person dark hair blue background 03
  • 03 blue background white numbers
  • split composition pixelated numbers
  • low-resolution blue background 03

Objects

  • numbers

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • 03

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • dark hair
  • light skin
  • blue background
  • 03
  • white numbers
  • black outlines
  • blocky style
  • low-resolution
  • split composition
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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
20080712220528347482142
Archive entry
20080712220528347482142.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 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#20080712220528347482142.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080712220528347482142.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016