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Pixelated grayscale image of a person in profile wearing a white shirt with a dark collar, looking toward the right side of the frame.

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Pixelated grayscale image of a person in profile wearing a white shirt with a dark collar, looking toward the right side of the frame.

Pixelated grayscale image of a person in profile wearing a white shirt with a dark collar, looking toward the right side of the frame. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archi…

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Source terms

Composition

  • profile view
  • cropped to head and torso
  • dark background

Dense Caption

The image is a static, pixelated grayscale portrait of a person in profile view, facing right. The individual has short dark hair and visible facial features including an eye with a white highlight, a nose, and a mouth. They wear a white shirt with a dark collar. The background is dark and indistinct. The image exhibits low resolution with visible pixelation, characteristic of early digital graphics. A small yellow pixel cluster appears in the bottom-right corner. The composition is cropped to show the head and upper torso.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale image of a person in profile wearing a white shirt with a dark collar, looking toward the right side of the frame.

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 topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20090318174149997136658
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale profile person white shirt
  • pixelated grayscale person short hair
  • white shirt dark collar grayscale
  • grayscale person eye highlight
  • low resolution grayscale portrait
  • cropped head torso grayscale
  • yellow pixel grayscale image
  • grayscale profile view white collar

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • profile view
  • white shirt
  • dark collar
  • short hair
  • eye with white highlight
  • small yellow pixel
  • low resolution
  • cropped to head and torso

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090318174149997136658
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:54 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.1 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 15:54 UTC
Archive ID
7c2dc2060f95bc06
SHA-256
7c2dc2060f95bc06832482088aad2fc37b88b0e3abd8d5ffc5fb6e7c0a7d3d6d
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:12 UTC
Run
1074
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.111502

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Pixelated grayscale image of a person in profile wearing a white shirt with a dark collar, looking toward the right side of the frame.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 03:19 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
11,639 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,088, response 766

Review tags

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  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • gray
  • white
  • black
  • yellow

Composition

  • profile view
  • cropped to head and torso
  • dark background

Dense Caption

The image is a static, pixelated grayscale portrait of a person in profile view, facing right. The individual has short dark hair and visible facial features including an eye with a white highlight, a nose, and a mouth. They wear a white shirt with a dark collar. The background is dark and indistinct. The image exhibits low resolution with visible pixelation, characteristic of early digital graphics. A small yellow pixel cluster appears in the bottom-right corner. The composition is cropped to show the head and upper torso.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale image of a person in profile wearing a white shirt with a dark collar, looking toward the right side of the frame.

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 topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20090318174149997136658
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale profile person white shirt
  • pixelated grayscale person short hair
  • white shirt dark collar grayscale
  • grayscale person eye highlight
  • low resolution grayscale portrait
  • cropped head torso grayscale
  • yellow pixel grayscale image
  • grayscale profile view white collar

Style

  • pixelated
  • grayscale
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

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  • pixelated
  • profile view
  • white shirt
  • dark collar
  • short hair
  • eye with white highlight
  • small yellow pixel
  • low resolution
  • cropped to head and torso
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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
20090318174149997136658
Archive entry
20090318174149997136658.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:54 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#20090318174149997136658.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090318174149997136658.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016