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A pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair pulled back, wearing a dark jacket and large hoop earrings, against a blurred background.

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A pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair pulled back, wearing a dark jacket and large hoop earrings, against a blurred background.

A pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair pulled back, wearing a dark jacket and large hoop earrings, against a blurred background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Ar…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • head and shoulders
  • centered subject
  • blurred background

Dense Caption

The image is a static, pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair pulled back, showing the head and upper shoulders. The person has fair skin, dark eyebrows, and is wearing a dark jacket with visible shoulder details. Large hoop earrings are visible on both ears. The background is blurred with muted brown and gray tones. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital compression. No text or symbols are visible on the person or in the background.

Description

  • A pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair pulled back, wearing a dark jacket and large hoop earrings, against a blurred 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person dark hair hoop earrings
  • low-resolution close-up dark jacket
  • blurred background fair skin
  • hoop earrings dark jacket pixelated

Preprocessing Notes

  • low-resolution compression artifacts

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata about collection era and topic coverage but no pixel evidence supports these claims

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • dark hair
  • hoop earrings
  • dark jacket
  • fair skin
  • blurred background
  • low-resolution
  • close-up
  • shoulders visible
  • muted tones

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070727165713659855564
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:34 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/68/6874d18e990f8f4e34077f1e46826fd849a18889e4e1f8aed0a470d245ddee58.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:34 UTC
Archive ID
6874d18e990f8f4e
SHA-256
6874d18e990f8f4e34077f1e46826fd849a18889e4e1f8aed0a470d245ddee58
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 16, 2026 at 12:52 UTC
Run
1298
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.022712

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:47 UTC
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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair pulled back, wearing a dark jacket and large hoop earrings, against a blurred background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 15:18 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
5,875 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,093, response 684

Review tags

  • beige (color, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • dark brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • dark jacket (object, 0.80)
  • hoop earrings (object, 0.80)
  • close up (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • dark brown
  • gray
  • beige
  • black

Composition

  • head and shoulders
  • centered subject
  • blurred background

Dense Caption

The image is a static, pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair pulled back, showing the head and upper shoulders. The person has fair skin, dark eyebrows, and is wearing a dark jacket with visible shoulder details. Large hoop earrings are visible on both ears. The background is blurred with muted brown and gray tones. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital compression. No text or symbols are visible on the person or in the background.

Description

  • A pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair pulled back, wearing a dark jacket and large hoop earrings, against a blurred 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person dark hair hoop earrings
  • low-resolution close-up dark jacket
  • blurred background fair skin
  • hoop earrings dark jacket pixelated

Objects

  • hoop earrings
  • dark jacket

Preprocessing Notes

  • low-resolution compression artifacts

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata about collection era and topic coverage but no pixel evidence supports these claims

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • close-up

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • dark hair
  • hoop earrings
  • dark jacket
  • fair skin
  • blurred background
  • low-resolution
  • close-up
  • shoulders visible
  • muted tones
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 09:30 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
Raw JSON
Source semantic tags (2)
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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
20070727165713659855564
Archive entry
20070727165713659855564.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:34 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#20070727165713659855564.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070727165713659855564.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016