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Pixelated close-up of a person with short dark hair wearing a gray collared shirt against a light background.

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Pixelated close-up of a person with short dark hair wearing a gray collared shirt against a light background.

Pixelated close-up of a person with short dark hair wearing a gray collared shirt against a light background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bud…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered subject
  • cropped to shoulders

Dense Caption

Pixelated close-up of a person with short dark hair, light skin tone, and visible facial features including eyes, nose, mouth, and a small red mark on the forehead. The person wears a gray collared shirt with a dark inner collar visible. Background is a light, neutral tone with subtle pixelated variations. Image has low resolution with visible pixelation across all elements. No text or symbols are present in the image.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person with short dark hair wearing a gray collared shirt against a light 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
  • 200808301317431305195374

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person pixelated gray shirt
  • short dark hair neutral background
  • light skin tone red mark
  • gray collared shirt dark inner collar

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution

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

  • short dark hair
  • light skin tone
  • gray collared shirt
  • light neutral background
  • pixelated image
  • visible facial features
  • small red mark on forehead
  • dark inner collar

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200808301317431305195374
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/71/7114375af369bd709c3ff7193193f2c2ffd2399da321e998bb05ebe6208f8e83.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 UTC
Archive ID
7114375af369bd70
SHA-256
7114375af369bd709c3ff7193193f2c2ffd2399da321e998bb05ebe6208f8e83
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:55 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.111919

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated close-up of a person with short dark hair wearing a gray collared shirt against a light background.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 22:14 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,391 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,092, response 778

Review tags

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  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light beige (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
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  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • gray
  • dark brown
  • light beige
  • red

Composition

  • centered subject
  • cropped to shoulders

Dense Caption

Pixelated close-up of a person with short dark hair, light skin tone, and visible facial features including eyes, nose, mouth, and a small red mark on the forehead. The person wears a gray collared shirt with a dark inner collar visible. Background is a light, neutral tone with subtle pixelated variations. Image has low resolution with visible pixelation across all elements. No text or symbols are present in the image.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person with short dark hair wearing a gray collared shirt against a light 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
  • 200808301317431305195374

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person pixelated gray shirt
  • short dark hair neutral background
  • light skin tone red mark
  • gray collared shirt dark inner collar

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • close-up

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • short dark hair
  • light skin tone
  • gray collared shirt
  • light neutral background
  • pixelated image
  • visible facial features
  • small red mark on forehead
  • dark inner collar
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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
200808301317431305195374
Archive entry
200808301317431305195374.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 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#200808301317431305195374.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200808301317431305195374.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016