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Pixelated static image of a person with dark hair and light skin, wearing a red garment against a gradient background.

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Pixelated static image of a person with dark hair and light skin, wearing a red garment against a gradient background.

Pixelated static image of a person with dark hair and light skin, wearing a red garment against a gradient background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons S…

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Mood

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Source terms

Composition

  • centered figure
  • close-up crop
  • gradient background

Dense Caption

Static pixelated icon shows a figure with voluminous dark hair framing the face. The face has light skin tone with visible eyes, nose, and mouth in neutral expression. A small circular mark appears on forehead. Figure wears reddish-brown clothing at lower edge of frame. Background consists of gradient transitioning from warm orange-red tones on left to darker shades on right. Image exhibits low-resolution pixelation typical of early 2000s digital art.

Description

  • Pixelated static image of a person with dark hair and light skin, wearing a red garment against a gradient background.

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: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • celebrities

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • dark hair person red garment
  • pixelated neutral expression orange background
  • forehead mark pixel art
  • static image low resolution

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

  • dark hair
  • light skin
  • red garment
  • neutral expression
  • orange background
  • pixelated
  • static image
  • forehead mark

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709261305211632368175
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:47 UTC

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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/6a/6a48976b3abbde9ec333b6e84ce4854bdc862ae46e8a45d4430f31d134603172.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:47 UTC
Archive ID
6a48976b3abbde9e
SHA-256
6a48976b3abbde9ec333b6e84ce4854bdc862ae46e8a45d4430f31d134603172
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:18 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.462302

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.537698onnx/unsafe0.462302onnx/nsfw0.416076onnx/nsfl0.046226
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Pixelated static image of a person with dark hair and light skin, wearing a red garment against a gradient background.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 05:00 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,669 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,093, response 647

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • light skin tone (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution digital (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • orange
  • red
  • brown
  • black
  • light skin tone

Composition

  • centered figure
  • close-up crop
  • gradient background

Dense Caption

Static pixelated icon shows a figure with voluminous dark hair framing the face. The face has light skin tone with visible eyes, nose, and mouth in neutral expression. A small circular mark appears on forehead. Figure wears reddish-brown clothing at lower edge of frame. Background consists of gradient transitioning from warm orange-red tones on left to darker shades on right. Image exhibits low-resolution pixelation typical of early 2000s digital art.

Description

  • Pixelated static image of a person with dark hair and light skin, wearing a red garment against a gradient background.

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: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • celebrities

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • dark hair person red garment
  • pixelated neutral expression orange background
  • forehead mark pixel art
  • static image low resolution

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
  • low-resolution digital

Subjects

  • person

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • dark hair
  • light skin
  • red garment
  • neutral expression
  • orange background
  • pixelated
  • static image
  • forehead mark
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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
200709261305211632368175
Archive entry
200709261305211632368175.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:47 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#200709261305211632368175.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709261305211632368175.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016