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Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with dark hair and a dark jacket over a light shirt, next to a handwritten signature on a light background.

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Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with dark hair and a dark jacket over a light shirt, next to a handwritten signature on a light background.

Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with dark hair and a dark jacket over a light shirt, next to a handwritten signature on a light background. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM budd…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation Summary

  • no visible animation changes

Composition

  • person on left
  • signature on right
  • plain background

Dense Caption

Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with dark hair styled in a short, rounded cut, wearing a dark jacket over a light-colored shirt. The person's face is visible with a neutral expression, showing eyes, nose, and mouth. To the right of the person, there is a handwritten signature in a cursive style. The background is a plain light color. The image has a low-resolution, grainy appearance typical of early digital photography or scanned documents.

Description

Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with dark hair and a dark jacket over a light shirt, next to a handwritten signature on a light background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2005
  • provenance era: 2011
  • provenance source-name: Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs
  • provenance topic-coverage: action
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: cars
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: dolls
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Metadata Only Entities

  • buddy-icons
  • aim
  • buddy-icons-info

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person signature black-and-white pixelated
  • dark hair short rounded cut
  • handwritten cursive signature
  • low-resolution grainy image
  • person on left signature on right
  • neutral expression dark jacket light shirt
  • black-and-white pixelated signature
  • grainy appearance signature background

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears static despite metadata suggesting animation

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2005
  • provenance era: 2011
  • provenance source-name: Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs
  • provenance topic-coverage: action
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: cars
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: dolls
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Uncertain Text

  • signature text unreadable

Wordwall

  • black-and-white
  • pixelated
  • dark hair
  • short rounded cut
  • dark jacket
  • light shirt
  • neutral expression
  • handwritten signature
  • cursive style
  • light background
  • low-resolution
  • grainy appearance

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 11, 2026

Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs

Source title
28235
Category
img / icon
Era
Mid-to-Late-2000s AIM Portal
Observed
July 11, 2026 at 22:17 UTC

Original record Source download

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
4.5 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 11, 2026
Relative path
icons/7a/7ae3d771335e9dafd1e6ed6562a09a155f2e4cc81f8a40dd4918dd691915e49f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 11, 2026 at 22:17 UTC
Archive ID
7ae3d771335e9daf
SHA-256
7ae3d771335e9dafd1e6ed6562a09a155f2e4cc81f8a40dd4918dd691915e49f
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:09 UTC
Run
1067
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.097847

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.931059onnx/unsafe0.097847onnx/nsfw0.051910onnx/nsfl0.045937
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with dark hair and a dark jacket over a light shirt, next to a handwritten signature on a light background.

Reviewed
August 24, 2026 at 17:20 UTC
Run
68
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,386 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,079, response 792

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • black and white (style, 0.80)
  • grainy (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)
  • signature (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • no visible animation changes

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • person on left
  • signature on right
  • plain background

Dense Caption

Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with dark hair styled in a short, rounded cut, wearing a dark jacket over a light-colored shirt. The person's face is visible with a neutral expression, showing eyes, nose, and mouth. To the right of the person, there is a handwritten signature in a cursive style. The background is a plain light color. The image has a low-resolution, grainy appearance typical of early digital photography or scanned documents.

Description

Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with dark hair and a dark jacket over a light shirt, next to a handwritten signature on a light background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2005
  • provenance era: 2011
  • provenance source-name: Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs
  • provenance topic-coverage: action
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: cars
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: dolls
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Metadata Only Entities

  • buddy-icons
  • aim
  • buddy-icons-info

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person signature black-and-white pixelated
  • dark hair short rounded cut
  • handwritten cursive signature
  • low-resolution grainy image
  • person on left signature on right
  • neutral expression dark jacket light shirt
  • black-and-white pixelated signature
  • grainy appearance signature background

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears static despite metadata suggesting animation

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2005
  • provenance era: 2011
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  • provenance topic-coverage: action
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: cars
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: dolls
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Style

  • pixelated
  • black-and-white
  • grainy

Subjects

  • person
  • signature

Uncertain Text

  • signature text unreadable

Wordwall

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  • pixelated
  • dark hair
  • short rounded cut
  • dark jacket
  • light shirt
  • neutral expression
  • handwritten signature
  • cursive style
  • light background
  • low-resolution
  • grainy appearance
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 04:22 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 (1)
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Full source records (1)
Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs (wayback-buddy-icons-info-img-icon-gifs)
Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-to-Late-2000s AIM Portal
Type
Wayback direct native asset enumeration
Category
img / icon
Alt
28235
Observed
July 11, 2026 at 22:17 UTC
Rights
mixed user-submitted and licensed imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
native Buddy-Icons.info AIM icon assets spanning user submissions, fandom, identity, relationships, school, sports, music, movies, and celebrity culture
Original: http://buddy-icons.info/img/icon/28235.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20111122205033id_/http://buddy-icons.info/img/icon/28235.gif