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Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair and light skin, hands near face, dark clothing, and a bright light source on the right.

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Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair and light skin, hands near face, dark clothing, and a bright light source on the right.

Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair and light skin, hands near face, dark clothing, and a bright light source on the right. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archiv…

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Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • high-contrast

Dense Caption

Pixelated close-up view of a person with dark hair, light skin tone, and dark clothing. Hands are positioned near the face, with fingers visible. A bright light source appears on the right side of the frame, creating a high-contrast area. The background is dark and indistinct. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early 2000s digital imagery. No text or symbols are visible in the image.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair and light skin, hands near face, dark clothing, and a bright light source on the right.

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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person dark hair light skin
  • hands near face dark clothing
  • bright light source close-up
  • low-resolution blocky appearance

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • dark hair
  • light skin
  • hands near face
  • dark clothing
  • bright light source
  • low-resolution
  • blocky appearance
  • close-up
  • high-contrast

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090612091256338092843
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/77/77562d82fa78159786131cda186c5e8785a5cb012512cf68862179f08194386d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 UTC
Archive ID
77562d82fa781597
SHA-256
77562d82fa78159786131cda186c5e8785a5cb012512cf68862179f08194386d
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:03 UTC
Run
1049
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.091462

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair and light skin, hands near face, dark clothing, and a bright light source on the right.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 12:04 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,223 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,094, response 642

Review tags

  • hands near face (action, 0.80)
  • bright (color, 0.80)
  • dark (color, 0.80)
  • light (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • hands near face

Colors

  • dark
  • light
  • bright

Composition

  • close-up
  • high-contrast

Dense Caption

Pixelated close-up view of a person with dark hair, light skin tone, and dark clothing. Hands are positioned near the face, with fingers visible. A bright light source appears on the right side of the frame, creating a high-contrast area. The background is dark and indistinct. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early 2000s digital imagery. No text or symbols are visible in the image.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair and light skin, hands near face, dark clothing, and a bright light source on the right.

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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person dark hair light skin
  • hands near face dark clothing
  • bright light source close-up
  • low-resolution blocky appearance

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • dark hair
  • light skin
  • hands near face
  • dark clothing
  • bright light source
  • low-resolution
  • blocky appearance
  • close-up
  • high-contrast
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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
20090612091256338092843
Archive entry
20090612091256338092843.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 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#20090612091256338092843.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090612091256338092843.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016