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Pixelated image of a person with long brown hair wearing a red and white striped headband, dark eyeliner, and a red top against a dark blue background.

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Pixelated image of a person with long brown hair wearing a red and white striped headband, dark eyeliner, and a red top against a dark blue background.

Pixelated image of a person with long brown hair wearing a red and white striped headband, dark eyeliner, and a red top against a dark blue background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon fr…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered subject
  • dark background

Dense Caption

The image is a pixelated close-up of a person with long brown hair. They wear a red and white striped headband with a dark section at the top. The person has dark eyeliner, a mustache, and a red top. The background is dark blue. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics. No text is visible in the image.

Description

Pixelated image of a person with long brown hair wearing a red and white striped headband, dark eyeliner, and a red top against a dark blue 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071121120426452593776

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person with red and white striped headband
  • long brown hair pixelated image
  • dark blue background headband
  • mustache pixelated close-up

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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

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  • long brown hair
  • red and white striped headband
  • dark eyeliner
  • mustache
  • red top
  • dark blue background
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky appearance

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071121120426452593776
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:59 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.7 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/6d/6d78a3c5ec7faa3ba3a8aee6b7b3ba9f60c32598f72ff430bca1b6c3c6a60c23.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:59 UTC
Archive ID
6d78a3c5ec7faa3b
SHA-256
6d78a3c5ec7faa3ba3a8aee6b7b3ba9f60c32598f72ff430bca1b6c3c6a60c23
Content-safety assessments (3)
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Assessed
August 27, 2026 at 07:41 UTC
Run
1351
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000509

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
August 2, 2026 at 12:57 UTC
Run
1254
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:51 UTC
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OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image of a person with long brown hair wearing a red and white striped headband, dark eyeliner, and a red top against a dark blue background.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 09:56 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,555 ms
Tokens
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Review tags

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  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • headband (object, 0.80)
  • top (object, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • white
  • brown
  • dark blue
  • black

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered subject
  • dark background

Dense Caption

The image is a pixelated close-up of a person with long brown hair. They wear a red and white striped headband with a dark section at the top. The person has dark eyeliner, a mustache, and a red top. The background is dark blue. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics. No text is visible in the image.

Description

Pixelated image of a person with long brown hair wearing a red and white striped headband, dark eyeliner, and a red top against a dark blue 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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

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  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
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Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • long brown hair pixelated image
  • dark blue background headband
  • mustache pixelated close-up

Objects

  • headband
  • top

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

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Subjects

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 21:01 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
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Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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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
20071121120426452593776
Archive entry
20071121120426452593776.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:59 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#20071121120426452593776.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071121120426452593776.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016