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Pixelated close-up of a person with short brown hair wearing a dark blue shirt against a gradient background.

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Pixelated close-up of a person with short brown hair wearing a dark blue shirt against a gradient background.

Pixelated close-up of a person with short brown hair wearing a dark blue shirt against a gradient background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bud…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • cropped to head and shoulders

Dense Caption

Pixelated close-up of a person with short brown hair, visible right ear, and closed eyes. The person wears a dark blue shirt with a visible collar. A white cigarette is held between the lips. Background features a gradient from light blue on the left to dark gray on the right. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person with short brown hair wearing a dark blue shirt against a gradient background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • celebrities

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person holding cigarette
  • brown hair dark blue shirt
  • pixelated close-up
  • cigarette in mouth
  • light blue dark gray background
  • closed eyes brown hair
  • dark blue shirt collar
  • pixelated gradient background

Preprocessing Notes

  • low-resolution
  • pixelated

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

Wordwall

  • short brown hair
  • closed eyes
  • dark blue shirt
  • white cigarette
  • light blue background
  • dark gray background
  • pixelated
  • right ear visible
  • collar visible
  • gradient background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200711231140271366513937
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:59 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/7b/7b316717fa9f7701be940ea0db93a6d2da4469b5d0a259ce4fefee1ed350d94e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:59 UTC
Archive ID
7b316717fa9f7701
SHA-256
7b316717fa9f7701be940ea0db93a6d2da4469b5d0a259ce4fefee1ed350d94e
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 13, 2026 at 10:37 UTC
Run
1287
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.010224

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:10 UTC
Run
1069
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image
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.157389

OpenAI category scores

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

Pixelated close-up of a person with short brown hair wearing a dark blue shirt against a gradient background.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 10:37 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,594 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,090, response 644

Review tags

  • holding cigarette (action, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • dark gray (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • cigarette (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding cigarette

Colors

  • brown
  • dark blue
  • light blue
  • dark gray
  • white
  • pink

Composition

  • close-up
  • cropped to head and shoulders

Dense Caption

Pixelated close-up of a person with short brown hair, visible right ear, and closed eyes. The person wears a dark blue shirt with a visible collar. A white cigarette is held between the lips. Background features a gradient from light blue on the left to dark gray on the right. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person with short brown hair wearing a dark blue shirt against a gradient background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • celebrities

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person holding cigarette
  • brown hair dark blue shirt
  • pixelated close-up
  • cigarette in mouth
  • light blue dark gray background
  • closed eyes brown hair
  • dark blue shirt collar
  • pixelated gradient background

Objects

  • cigarette

Preprocessing Notes

  • low-resolution
  • pixelated

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • short brown hair
  • closed eyes
  • dark blue shirt
  • white cigarette
  • light blue background
  • dark gray background
  • pixelated
  • right ear visible
  • collar visible
  • gradient background
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 21:12 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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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
200711231140271366513937
Archive entry
200711231140271366513937.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:59 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#200711231140271366513937.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200711231140271366513937.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016