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Pixelated grayscale portrait of a person with glasses and a blue garment, set against a dark background with blue and white accents.

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Pixelated grayscale portrait of a person with glasses and a blue garment, set against a dark background with blue and white accents.

Pixelated grayscale portrait of a person with glasses and a blue garment, set against a dark background with blue and white accents. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered subject
  • dark background
  • blue and white accents

Dense Caption

The image is a static, pixelated grayscale portrait of a person with glasses. The person has short hair and is wearing a blue garment with visible blue and white accents. The background is dark, with blue and white elements on the left and right sides. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics. No text or additional objects are visible.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale portrait of a person with glasses and a blue garment, set against a dark background with blue and white accents.

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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200707291816111211074003

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale portrait glasses blue garment
  • pixelated grayscale person glasses
  • blue garment dark background pixelated
  • grayscale portrait short hair glasses

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 topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Wordwall

  • grayscale portrait
  • glasses
  • short hair
  • blue garment
  • dark background
  • blue accents
  • white accents
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky appearance

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200707291816111211074003
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/77/77e01b2a2fff8c2f3a32b1375bdc94f35faa98607ee402683c1bebd088897903.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 UTC
Archive ID
77e01b2a2fff8c2f
SHA-256
77e01b2a2fff8c2f3a32b1375bdc94f35faa98607ee402683c1bebd088897903
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 29, 2026 at 07:36 UTC
Run
15963
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000019

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
August 6, 2026 at 00:56 UTC
Run
1269
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001220

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:03 UTC
Run
1051
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.278062

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated grayscale portrait of a person with glasses and a blue garment, set against a dark background with blue and white accents.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 16:07 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,129 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,093, response 690

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • gray
  • black
  • blue
  • white

Composition

  • centered subject
  • dark background
  • blue and white accents

Dense Caption

The image is a static, pixelated grayscale portrait of a person with glasses. The person has short hair and is wearing a blue garment with visible blue and white accents. The background is dark, with blue and white elements on the left and right sides. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics. No text or additional objects are visible.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale portrait of a person with glasses and a blue garment, set against a dark background with blue and white accents.

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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200707291816111211074003

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale portrait glasses blue garment
  • pixelated grayscale person glasses
  • blue garment dark background pixelated
  • grayscale portrait short hair glasses

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 topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • grayscale
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • grayscale portrait
  • glasses
  • short hair
  • blue garment
  • dark background
  • blue accents
  • white accents
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky appearance
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 09:43 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
Raw JSON
Source semantic tags (2)
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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
200707291816111211074003
Archive entry
200707291816111211074003.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 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#200707291816111211074003.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200707291816111211074003.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016