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A pixelated image of a person with brown hair wearing a dark jacket over a black shirt, with the text 'edward' below and '11.21.08' at the top.

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A pixelated image of a person with brown hair wearing a dark jacket over a black shirt, with the text 'edward' below and '11.21.08' at the top.

A pixelated image of a person with brown hair wearing a dark jacket over a black shirt, with the text 'edward' below and '11.21.08' at the top. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon f…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static

Animation Summary

  • The image is static with no visible motion changes.

Composition

  • central subject
  • text overlay

Dense Caption

The image shows a person with brown hair styled in a slightly tousled manner, wearing a dark jacket with visible stitching details over a black shirt. The background is a muted gray tone. The text 'edward' appears in large, light-colored letters across the lower portion of the image. The date '11.21.08' is displayed in white numerals at the top left corner. The image has a pixelated quality typical of early 2000s digital graphics. The person's expression is neutral, with eyes partially closed. The image is part of a grid layout with adjacent panels visible on the right and below.

Description

A pixelated image of a person with brown hair wearing a dark jacket over a black shirt, with the text 'edward' below and '11.21.08' at the top.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200809091844341530170348

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • edward 11.21.08
  • brown hair dark jacket
  • 11.21.08 edward
  • pixelated edward image

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be cropped from a larger grid
  • quarantined composition: grid layout

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

Visible Text

  • 11.21.08
  • edward

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • dark jacket
  • black shirt
  • edward text
  • 11.21.08 date
  • gray background
  • pixelated
  • neutral expression
  • stitched jacket
  • light-colored text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200809091844341530170348
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
4.4 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/73/73c73e75550dd953bb26ec36452d2d0af7fd3c335c0d5c8785a00843aa5a7691.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC
Archive ID
73c73e75550dd953
SHA-256
73c73e75550dd953bb26ec36452d2d0af7fd3c335c0d5c8785a00843aa5a7691
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:58 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.071672

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.933115onnx/unsafe0.071672onnx/nsfl0.037677onnx/nsfw0.033995
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A pixelated image of a person with brown hair wearing a dark jacket over a black shirt, with the text 'edward' below and '11.21.08' at the top.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 23:37 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,835 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 814

Review tags

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  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • static (other, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static

Animation Summary

  • The image is static with no visible motion changes.

Colors

  • gray
  • brown
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • central subject
  • text overlay

Dense Caption

The image shows a person with brown hair styled in a slightly tousled manner, wearing a dark jacket with visible stitching details over a black shirt. The background is a muted gray tone. The text 'edward' appears in large, light-colored letters across the lower portion of the image. The date '11.21.08' is displayed in white numerals at the top left corner. The image has a pixelated quality typical of early 2000s digital graphics. The person's expression is neutral, with eyes partially closed. The image is part of a grid layout with adjacent panels visible on the right and below.

Description

A pixelated image of a person with brown hair wearing a dark jacket over a black shirt, with the text 'edward' below and '11.21.08' at the top.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200809091844341530170348

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • edward 11.21.08
  • brown hair dark jacket
  • 11.21.08 edward
  • pixelated edward image

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be cropped from a larger grid
  • quarantined composition: grid layout

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • grayscale

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • 11.21.08
  • edward

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • dark jacket
  • black shirt
  • edward text
  • 11.21.08 date
  • gray background
  • pixelated
  • neutral expression
  • stitched jacket
  • light-colored text
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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
200809091844341530170348
Archive entry
200809091844341530170348.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 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#200809091844341530170348.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200809091844341530170348.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016