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Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair and blue clothing, smiling slightly against a blurred background.

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Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair and blue clothing, smiling slightly against a blurred background.

Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair and blue clothing, smiling slightly against a blurred background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared B…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • cropped to face and upper torso

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image shows partial face of individual with dark brown or black hair styled in straight cut. Visible features include light skin tone, closed mouth showing slight smile, eyes partially visible under hair strands. Person wears blue garment on right shoulder and white collar below. Background consists of indistinct gray and blue tones. Image has low resolution with blocky pixelation typical of early 2000s digital images.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair and blue clothing, smiling slightly against a blurred background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • celebrities

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person blue clothing
  • dark hair smiling close-up
  • low-resolution face white collar
  • blue and gray background pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original dimensions

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • dark hair
  • blue clothing
  • light skin tone
  • slight smile
  • pixelated image
  • white collar
  • gray background
  • closed mouth

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071217194856140074050
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:05 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/78/78f19e8d2e2a2a7cc95b7c9fceb5631159c11f0ebb03f0a5fedf6f13092d4e9d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:05 UTC
Archive ID
78f19e8d2e2a2a7c
SHA-256
78f19e8d2e2a2a7cc95b7c9fceb5631159c11f0ebb03f0a5fedf6f13092d4e9d
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:07 UTC
Run
1057
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.119665

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair and blue clothing, smiling slightly against a blurred background.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 02:53 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,910 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,091, response 674

Review tags

  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • subtly positive (mood, 0.80)
  • clothing (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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  • static (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling

Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • gray
  • black
  • light skin tone

Composition

  • close-up
  • cropped to face and upper torso

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image shows partial face of individual with dark brown or black hair styled in straight cut. Visible features include light skin tone, closed mouth showing slight smile, eyes partially visible under hair strands. Person wears blue garment on right shoulder and white collar below. Background consists of indistinct gray and blue tones. Image has low resolution with blocky pixelation typical of early 2000s digital images.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair and blue clothing, smiling slightly against a blurred background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • celebrities

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral
  • subtly positive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person blue clothing
  • dark hair smiling close-up
  • low-resolution face white collar
  • blue and gray background pixel art

Objects

  • clothing

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original dimensions

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • static

Subjects

  • person

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • dark hair
  • blue clothing
  • light skin tone
  • slight smile
  • pixelated image
  • white collar
  • gray background
  • closed mouth
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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
20071217194856140074050
Archive entry
20071217194856140074050.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:05 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#20071217194856140074050.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071217194856140074050.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016