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Pixelated image of a person wearing sunglasses, a sleeveless shirt, and earphones, with a black background.

Pixelated image of a person wearing sunglasses, a sleeveless shirt, and earphones, with a black background. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sha…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • head turns left to right across frames

Animation Summary

  • The head turns left to right across the frames.

Composition

  • solid black background
  • light gray area on right
  • head turned left in bottom-left frame
  • head turned right in top-left and top-right frames

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated depiction of a person with dark skin wearing dark sunglasses, a sleeveless shirt with white and brown sections, and white earphones. The person has short dark hair and a small earring in the left ear. The background is solid black. In the bottom-left frame, the person's head is turned slightly left; in the top-left and top-right frames, the head is turned slightly right. The right side of the bottom-right frame is a solid light gray area. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital art style.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person wearing sunglasses, a sleeveless shirt, and earphones, with a black background.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20081120182849323510998
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person with sunglasses earphones
  • sleeveless shirt black background
  • head turned left right
  • pixelated retro digital art
  • white earphones dark skin
  • brown and white shirt
  • light gray area
  • small earring

Wordwall

  • sunglasses
  • sleeveless shirt
  • earphones
  • black background
  • pixelated
  • dark skin
  • short hair
  • small earring
  • white earphones
  • brown and white shirt
  • head turned left
  • head turned right
  • light gray area
  • retro digital art

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081120182849323510998
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/7d/7d43554c6e548d88192cc8bb072f8e5ecf7d45a86868e7fcacb4a053ae126408.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC
Archive ID
7d43554c6e548d88
SHA-256
7d43554c6e548d88192cc8bb072f8e5ecf7d45a86868e7fcacb4a053ae126408
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 26, 2026 at 22:07 UTC
Run
1349
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000052

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:15 UTC
Run
1079
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.084269

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image of a person wearing sunglasses, a sleeveless shirt, and earphones, with a black background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 09:49 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,075 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 775

Review tags

  • head turned left (action, 0.80)
  • head turned right (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • earphones (object, 0.80)
  • sleeveless shirt (object, 0.80)
  • small earring (object, 0.80)
  • sunglasses (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital art (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • head turned left
  • head turned right

Animation

  • head turns left to right across frames

Animation Summary

  • The head turns left to right across the frames.

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • brown
  • gray
  • dark skin

Composition

  • solid black background
  • light gray area on right
  • head turned left in bottom-left frame
  • head turned right in top-left and top-right frames

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated depiction of a person with dark skin wearing dark sunglasses, a sleeveless shirt with white and brown sections, and white earphones. The person has short dark hair and a small earring in the left ear. The background is solid black. In the bottom-left frame, the person's head is turned slightly left; in the top-left and top-right frames, the head is turned slightly right. The right side of the bottom-right frame is a solid light gray area. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital art style.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person wearing sunglasses, a sleeveless shirt, and earphones, with a black background.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20081120182849323510998
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person with sunglasses earphones
  • sleeveless shirt black background
  • head turned left right
  • pixelated retro digital art
  • white earphones dark skin
  • brown and white shirt
  • light gray area
  • small earring

Objects

  • sunglasses
  • sleeveless shirt
  • earphones
  • small earring

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital art

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

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  • sleeveless shirt
  • earphones
  • black background
  • pixelated
  • dark skin
  • short hair
  • small earring
  • white earphones
  • brown and white shirt
  • head turned left
  • head turned right
  • light gray area
  • retro digital art
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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
20081120182849323510998
Archive entry
20081120182849323510998.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 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#20081120182849323510998.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081120182849323510998.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016