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Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with dark hair and light skin, wearing a white top against a gray background.

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Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with dark hair and light skin, wearing a white top against a gray background.

Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with dark hair and light skin, wearing a white top against a gray background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcon…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • profile view
  • centered subject
  • minimal background

Dense Caption

Monochrome 8-bit style icon showing a figure in profile view facing right. The figure has short dark hair styled upward on the left side, visible ear, and closed mouth expression. Light-toned clothing covers the torso with subtle shading. Background consists of uniform grayscale pixels without distinct shapes or patterns. Image exhibits heavy pixelation typical of early digital graphics with limited color depth.

Description

  • Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with dark hair and light skin, wearing a white top against a gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation file-name (gallery): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • observation title (gallery): 200807082218271980706652
  • observation file-name (gallery): 200807082218271980706652
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • 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
  • 200807082218271980706652

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person profile monochrome pixel art
  • dark hair white clothing gray background
  • 8-bit style grayscale icon
  • closed mouth neutral expression

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original dimensions

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

  • 8-bit style
  • monochrome
  • profile view
  • dark hair
  • closed mouth
  • light skin
  • white clothing
  • gray background
  • pixelated

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200807082218271980706652
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
50×50 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/64/647469d115dcbbaf1cf82c4686addc3752cfdbe0bc03a3a3f745f9f06fe53191.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 UTC
Archive ID
647469d115dcbbaf
SHA-256
647469d115dcbbaf1cf82c4686addc3752cfdbe0bc03a3a3f745f9f06fe53191
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:43 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.115518

OpenAI category scores

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Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with dark hair and light skin, wearing a white top against a gray background.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 11:19 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,289 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,090, response 786

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • 8 bit pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • monochrome (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • profile view
  • centered subject
  • minimal background

Dense Caption

Monochrome 8-bit style icon showing a figure in profile view facing right. The figure has short dark hair styled upward on the left side, visible ear, and closed mouth expression. Light-toned clothing covers the torso with subtle shading. Background consists of uniform grayscale pixels without distinct shapes or patterns. Image exhibits heavy pixelation typical of early digital graphics with limited color depth.

Description

  • Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with dark hair and light skin, wearing a white top against a gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation file-name (gallery): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • observation title (gallery): 200807082218271980706652
  • observation file-name (gallery): 200807082218271980706652
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • 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
  • 200807082218271980706652

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person profile monochrome pixel art
  • dark hair white clothing gray background
  • 8-bit style grayscale icon
  • closed mouth neutral expression

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original dimensions

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

  • 8-bit pixel art
  • monochrome

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • 8-bit style
  • monochrome
  • profile view
  • dark hair
  • closed mouth
  • light skin
  • white clothing
  • gray background
  • pixelated
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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
200807082218271980706652
Archive entry
200807082218271980706652.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#200807082218271980706652.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200807082218271980706652.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016