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Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair and light skin, wearing a dark cap and light-colored shirt, against a muted background.

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Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair and light skin, wearing a dark cap and light-colored shirt, against a muted background.

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • partial face
  • muted background

Dense Caption

Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair and light skin. The person wears a dark cap and a light-colored shirt. The background is muted with indistinct shapes and colors. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics. The person's face is partially visible, showing an eye, nose, and mouth. The lighting is flat with no strong shadows. The overall color palette includes shades of brown, gray, and muted blue.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair and light skin, wearing a dark cap and light-colored shirt, against a muted 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 topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person dark hair light skin
  • pixelated close-up dark cap
  • muted background low-resolution
  • light-colored shirt dark hair

Wordwall

  • dark hair
  • light skin
  • dark cap
  • light-colored shirt
  • muted background
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • close-up
  • indistinct shapes
  • flat lighting

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20091102162042440749421
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 UTC
Archive ID
7747fa66f59bf73f
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 11, 2026 at 14:31 UTC
Run
1284
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.010179

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:03 UTC
Run
1049
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Overall label
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Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair and light skin, wearing a dark cap and light-colored shirt, against a muted background.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 19:41 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,113 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,094, response 656

Review tags

  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light colored (color, 0.80)
  • muted blue (color, 0.80)
  • close up (style, 0.80)
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  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • brown
  • gray
  • muted blue
  • dark
  • light-colored

Composition

  • close-up
  • partial face
  • muted background

Dense Caption

Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair and light skin. The person wears a dark cap and a light-colored shirt. The background is muted with indistinct shapes and colors. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics. The person's face is partially visible, showing an eye, nose, and mouth. The lighting is flat with no strong shadows. The overall color palette includes shades of brown, gray, and muted blue.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair and light skin, wearing a dark cap and light-colored shirt, against a muted 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 topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person dark hair light skin
  • pixelated close-up dark cap
  • muted background low-resolution
  • light-colored shirt dark hair

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • close-up

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

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  • light skin
  • dark cap
  • light-colored shirt
  • muted background
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • close-up
  • indistinct shapes
  • flat lighting
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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
20091102162042440749421
Archive entry
20091102162042440749421.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 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#20091102162042440749421.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20091102162042440749421.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016