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A grayscale pixelated image shows a figure with dark hair and light clothing, partially cropped on the left side.

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A grayscale pixelated image shows a figure with dark hair and light clothing, partially cropped on the left side.

A grayscale pixelated image shows a figure with dark hair and light clothing, partially cropped on the left side. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • partial crop on left side
  • centered subject
  • plain background

Dense Caption

The image is a low-resolution grayscale photograph of a person's upper body. The subject has short dark hair visible on the left side of the frame. Light-colored fabric covers the torso area, while darker fabric appears to be draped over the shoulder or arm on the right side. The background is plain white with no discernible features. Pixelation and compression artifacts are prominent throughout the image. No text or symbols are present in the visual content.

Description

  • A grayscale pixelated image shows a figure with dark hair and light clothing, partially cropped on the left side.

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: historical-archive
  • 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
  • 20080315172107696617902

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixelated person image
  • dark hair light clothing white background

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be upscaled or low-resolution from original source

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 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

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • dark hair
  • light clothing
  • white background
  • cropped left edge

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080315172107696617902
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:18 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.8 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/79/799d890b3e4498c5426f4e0060c201440ed725bd95368382a9784294d93291ed.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:18 UTC
Archive ID
799d890b3e4498c5
SHA-256
799d890b3e4498c5426f4e0060c201440ed725bd95368382a9784294d93291ed
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:08 UTC
Run
1062
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.055273

OpenAI category scores

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A grayscale pixelated image shows a figure with dark hair and light clothing, partially cropped on the left side.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 07:20 UTC
Run
57
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,001 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,095, response 659

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • photographic (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • gray
  • white

Composition

  • partial crop on left side
  • centered subject
  • plain background

Dense Caption

The image is a low-resolution grayscale photograph of a person's upper body. The subject has short dark hair visible on the left side of the frame. Light-colored fabric covers the torso area, while darker fabric appears to be draped over the shoulder or arm on the right side. The background is plain white with no discernible features. Pixelation and compression artifacts are prominent throughout the image. No text or symbols are present in the visual content.

Description

  • A grayscale pixelated image shows a figure with dark hair and light clothing, partially cropped on the left side.

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: historical-archive
  • 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
  • 20080315172107696617902

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixelated person image
  • dark hair light clothing white background

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be upscaled or low-resolution from original source

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 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

  • photographic
  • pixelated

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • dark hair
  • light clothing
  • white background
  • cropped left edge
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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
20080315172107696617902
Archive entry
20080315172107696617902.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:18 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#20080315172107696617902.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080315172107696617902.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016