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Pixelated image of a person wearing a red sweater with a dark collar, standing against a dark background with a vertical light stripe on the left.

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Pixelated image of a person wearing a red sweater with a dark collar, standing against a dark background with a vertical light stripe on the left.

Pixelated image of a person wearing a red sweater with a dark collar, standing against a dark background with a vertical light stripe on the left. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from In…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • upper body
  • dark background
  • vertical light stripe on left

Dense Caption

Pixelated static image of a person with short dark hair, light skin, and a neutral expression. The person wears a red sweater with a dark collar. The background is dark with a vertical light stripe on the left side. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early 2000s digital art. No visible text or symbols are present. The person's posture is upright, and the image is cropped to show the upper body from the shoulders up.

Description

Pixelated image of a person wearing a red sweater with a dark collar, standing against a dark background with a vertical light stripe on the left.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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
  • 200809231823101577506110

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red sweater person dark background
  • pixelated upper body neutral expression
  • dark collar vertical light stripe
  • low-resolution blocky appearance

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original dimensions

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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

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  • red sweater
  • dark collar
  • short dark hair
  • light skin
  • neutral expression
  • dark background
  • vertical light stripe
  • low-resolution
  • blocky appearance
  • upper body
  • upright posture

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200809231823101577506110
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC
Archive ID
7b1dc2bf4bbe96a8
SHA-256
7b1dc2bf4bbe96a82397c5b9b78e35774ec693fa759f81bfe650ce2617a9450b
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:10 UTC
Run
1069
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.063978

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image of a person wearing a red sweater with a dark collar, standing against a dark background with a vertical light stripe on the left.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 01:24 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,885 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,092, response 796

Review tags

  • dark (color, 0.80)
  • light (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • dark
  • light

Composition

  • upper body
  • dark background
  • vertical light stripe on left

Dense Caption

Pixelated static image of a person with short dark hair, light skin, and a neutral expression. The person wears a red sweater with a dark collar. The background is dark with a vertical light stripe on the left side. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early 2000s digital art. No visible text or symbols are present. The person's posture is upright, and the image is cropped to show the upper body from the shoulders up.

Description

Pixelated image of a person wearing a red sweater with a dark collar, standing against a dark background with a vertical light stripe on the left.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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
  • 200809231823101577506110

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red sweater person dark background
  • pixelated upper body neutral expression
  • dark collar vertical light stripe
  • low-resolution blocky appearance

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original dimensions

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • static
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

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  • dark collar
  • short dark hair
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  • neutral expression
  • dark background
  • vertical light stripe
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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
200809231823101577506110
Archive entry
200809231823101577506110.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 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#200809231823101577506110.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200809231823101577506110.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016