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Pixelated grayscale image of a person with short hair, wearing glasses and a dark jacket over a light shirt.

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Pixelated grayscale image of a person with short hair, wearing glasses and a dark jacket over a light shirt.

Pixelated grayscale image of a person with short hair, wearing glasses and a dark jacket over a light shirt. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Budd…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered subject
  • cropped to shoulders

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixel art depicts a figure with short hair, large round eyeglasses, and a dark outer garment over a light inner layer. The face shows a neutral expression with visible eyes, nose, and mouth. Background is indistinct dark gray and black pixels. Image has low resolution with blocky pixelation typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale image of a person with short hair, wearing glasses and a dark jacket over a light shirt.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080221000906318954421
  • franksicons
  • 2007
  • buddy-icons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixel art person glasses jacket
  • pixelated neutral expression short hair
  • low resolution grayscale eyeglasses
  • blocky pixels dark jacket light shirt

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

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • short hair
  • round eyeglasses
  • dark jacket
  • light shirt
  • neutral expression
  • blocky pixels

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080221000906318954421
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:15 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.8 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/66/66f4bc186018b9854cbc6a61724e631d01fc33d10eca14b1064cc443c8e1bea0.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:15 UTC
Archive ID
66f4bc186018b985
SHA-256
66f4bc186018b9854cbc6a61724e631d01fc33d10eca14b1064cc443c8e1bea0
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 7, 2026 at 02:49 UTC
Run
1272
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000027

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:45 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.150948

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated grayscale image of a person with short hair, wearing glasses and a dark jacket over a light shirt.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 01:11 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,280 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,090, response 705

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • eyeglasses (object, 0.80)
  • jacket (object, 0.80)
  • shirt (object, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered subject
  • cropped to shoulders

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixel art depicts a figure with short hair, large round eyeglasses, and a dark outer garment over a light inner layer. The face shows a neutral expression with visible eyes, nose, and mouth. Background is indistinct dark gray and black pixels. Image has low resolution with blocky pixelation typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale image of a person with short hair, wearing glasses and a dark jacket over a light shirt.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080221000906318954421
  • franksicons
  • 2007
  • buddy-icons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixel art person glasses jacket
  • pixelated neutral expression short hair
  • low resolution grayscale eyeglasses
  • blocky pixels dark jacket light shirt

Objects

  • eyeglasses
  • jacket
  • shirt

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

  • pixel art
  • grayscale
  • low resolution

Subjects

  • person

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • short hair
  • round eyeglasses
  • dark jacket
  • light shirt
  • neutral expression
  • blocky pixels
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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
20080221000906318954421
Archive entry
20080221000906318954421.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:15 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#20080221000906318954421.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080221000906318954421.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016