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Black-and-white portrait of a person with dark hair and a collared shirt, displayed in a with visible pixelation

Black-and-white portrait of a person with dark hair and a collared shirt, displayed in a with visible pixelation. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIco…

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Style

Mood

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Source terms

Animation Summary

  • The image shows a static with three sections; no visible motion changes occur between sections

Composition

  • three sections
  • white background

Dense Caption

Black-and-white image of a person with dark, voluminous hair partially covering the forehead. The person wears a collared shirt with a visible collar and a dark inner layer. The image is pixelated, with a grid layout showing three distinct sections: top-left, top-right, and bottom-left. The top-right section appears slightly brighter than the others. The background is plain white. The image has a low-resolution, grainy texture typical of early digital photography.

Description

  • Black-and-white portrait of a person with dark hair and a collared shirt, displayed in a with visible pixelation

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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
  • 20090128172949514011074

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • black-and-white portrait
  • pixelated collared shirt
  • grainy texture
  • dark hair white background

Preprocessing Notes

  • grid layout indicates multiple views of the same asset
  • quarantined description: Black-and-white portrait of a person with dark hair and a collared shirt, displayed in a grid layout with visible pixelation.
  • quarantined animationSummary: The image shows a static grid layout with three sections; no visible motion changes occur between sections.
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: grainy texture grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: black-and-white grid portrait

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

  • black-and-white
  • dark hair
  • collared shirt
  • pixelated
  • white background
  • grainy texture
  • voluminous hair
  • collar visible
  • low-resolution

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090128172949514011074
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:50 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.6 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/75/757bb81afb543a7b01c1a004d63e05755e8fc9375cc3a3a32c319e3157d1bf92.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:50 UTC
Archive ID
757bb81afb543a7b
SHA-256
757bb81afb543a7b01c1a004d63e05755e8fc9375cc3a3a32c319e3157d1bf92
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:00 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.083449

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.916551onnx/unsafe0.083449onnx/nsfl0.050369onnx/nsfw0.033080
Enrichment records (1)
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Black-and-white portrait of a person with dark hair and a collared shirt, displayed in a with visible pixelation

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 20:34 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,481 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 723

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • black and white (style, 0.80)
  • grainy (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • The image shows a static with three sections; no visible motion changes occur between sections

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • three sections
  • white background

Dense Caption

Black-and-white image of a person with dark, voluminous hair partially covering the forehead. The person wears a collared shirt with a visible collar and a dark inner layer. The image is pixelated, with a grid layout showing three distinct sections: top-left, top-right, and bottom-left. The top-right section appears slightly brighter than the others. The background is plain white. The image has a low-resolution, grainy texture typical of early digital photography.

Description

  • Black-and-white portrait of a person with dark hair and a collared shirt, displayed in a with visible pixelation

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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
  • 20090128172949514011074

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • black-and-white portrait
  • pixelated collared shirt
  • grainy texture
  • dark hair white background

Preprocessing Notes

  • grid layout indicates multiple views of the same asset
  • quarantined description: Black-and-white portrait of a person with dark hair and a collared shirt, displayed in a grid layout with visible pixelation.
  • quarantined animationSummary: The image shows a static grid layout with three sections; no visible motion changes occur between sections.
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: grainy texture grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: black-and-white grid portrait

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

  • black-and-white
  • pixelated
  • grainy

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • black-and-white
  • dark hair
  • collared shirt
  • pixelated
  • white background
  • grainy texture
  • voluminous hair
  • collar visible
  • low-resolution
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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
20090128172949514011074
Archive entry
20090128172949514011074.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:50 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#20090128172949514011074.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090128172949514011074.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016