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four pixelated images showing a person with brown hair and blue eyes in different poses against a patterned background

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • head turns from left to right

Animation Summary

  • The head turns from left to right across the top and bottom of the

Composition

  • solid gray

Dense Caption

Four pixelated images arranged in a 2x2 grid. Top-left and top-right images show a person with brown hair and blue eyes looking left, with a patterned background. Bottom-left image shows the same person looking right, with a patterned background. Bottom-right image is a solid light gray color. All images have low resolution and visible pixelation.

Description

  • four pixelated images showing a person with brown hair and blue eyes in different poses against a patterned background

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • 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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200903221051151065248179

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown hair blue eyes pixelated
  • person looking left right solid gray
  • pixelated images
  • low resolution patterned background solid gray

Preprocessing Notes

  • grid layout contains four panels; bottom-right panel is solid gray
  • quarantined description: A grid of four pixelated images showing a person with brown hair and blue eyes in different poses against a patterned background.
  • quarantined animationSummary: The head turns from left to right across the top and bottom rows of the grid.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: solid gray panel
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid pixelated images
  • quarantined retrieval: person looking left right solid gray panel
  • quarantined retrieval: brown hair blue eyes pixelated grid

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

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • blue eyes
  • patterned background
  • pixelated
  • solid gray
  • low resolution
  • looking left
  • looking right

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200903221051151065248179
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:54 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/70/709116a3ddff0394aca0aef312970b5b63aa49ed410e0a5c7f185f2ebcacbfb7.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:54 UTC
Archive ID
709116a3ddff0394
SHA-256
709116a3ddff0394aca0aef312970b5b63aa49ed410e0a5c7f185f2ebcacbfb7
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 7, 2026 at 01:54 UTC
Run
1272
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.010138

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:55 UTC
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1039
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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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four pixelated images showing a person with brown hair and blue eyes in different poses against a patterned background

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 03:47 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,340 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 780

Review tags

  • looking left (action, 0.80)
  • looking right (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • patterned background colors (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • head turns from left to right (other, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • looking left
  • looking right

Animation

  • head turns from left to right

Animation Summary

  • The head turns from left to right across the top and bottom of the

Colors

  • brown
  • blue
  • light gray
  • patterned background colors

Composition

  • solid gray

Dense Caption

Four pixelated images arranged in a 2x2 grid. Top-left and top-right images show a person with brown hair and blue eyes looking left, with a patterned background. Bottom-left image shows the same person looking right, with a patterned background. Bottom-right image is a solid light gray color. All images have low resolution and visible pixelation.

Description

  • four pixelated images showing a person with brown hair and blue eyes in different poses against a patterned background

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • 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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200903221051151065248179

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown hair blue eyes pixelated
  • person looking left right solid gray
  • pixelated images
  • low resolution patterned background solid gray

Preprocessing Notes

  • grid layout contains four panels; bottom-right panel is solid gray
  • quarantined description: A grid of four pixelated images showing a person with brown hair and blue eyes in different poses against a patterned background.
  • quarantined animationSummary: The head turns from left to right across the top and bottom rows of the grid.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: solid gray panel
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid pixelated images
  • quarantined retrieval: person looking left right solid gray panel
  • quarantined retrieval: brown hair blue eyes pixelated grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • 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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low resolution

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • blue eyes
  • patterned background
  • pixelated
  • solid gray
  • low resolution
  • looking left
  • looking right
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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
200903221051151065248179
Archive entry
200903221051151065248179.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:54 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#200903221051151065248179.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200903221051151065248179.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016