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A grayscale portrait of a person with long dark hair, featuring a bright pink pixelated symbol in the lower center.

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A grayscale portrait of a person with long dark hair, featuring a bright pink pixelated symbol in the lower center.

A grayscale portrait of a person with long dark hair, featuring a bright pink pixelated symbol in the lower center. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksI…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered subject
  • symbol in lower center

Dense Caption

The image shows a grayscale portrait of a person with long dark hair, eyes closed, and a neutral expression. The background is light and indistinct. A bright pink pixelated symbol resembling a left-pointing arrow with a '3' inside it is positioned in the lower center of the image. The symbol is the only colored element in an otherwise monochrome composition. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated appearance typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • A grayscale portrait of a person with long dark hair, featuring a bright pink pixelated symbol in the lower center.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale portrait pink symbol
  • person long hair pink arrow 3
  • pixelated symbol 3
  • grayscale portrait neutral expression

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be a single frame with no visible animation changes

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

  • grayscale portrait
  • long dark hair
  • eyes closed
  • neutral expression
  • pink pixelated symbol
  • left-pointing arrow
  • digit 3
  • low-resolution
  • monochrome background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090820110358298152900
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:01 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
3.9 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/7f/7fc9dcdb41294be8329968e271be4976ccf0f5aa39ca30ec022903b17cf84703.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:01 UTC
Archive ID
7fc9dcdb41294be8
SHA-256
7fc9dcdb41294be8329968e271be4976ccf0f5aa39ca30ec022903b17cf84703
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 8, 2026 at 04:26 UTC
Run
1275
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.016125

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:21 UTC
Run
1093
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.226257

OpenAI category scores

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A grayscale portrait of a person with long dark hair, featuring a bright pink pixelated symbol in the lower center.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 16:46 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,349 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,141, response 729

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • pink pixelated symbol (object, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • gray
  • black
  • white
  • pink

Composition

  • centered subject
  • symbol in lower center

Dense Caption

The image shows a grayscale portrait of a person with long dark hair, eyes closed, and a neutral expression. The background is light and indistinct. A bright pink pixelated symbol resembling a left-pointing arrow with a '3' inside it is positioned in the lower center of the image. The symbol is the only colored element in an otherwise monochrome composition. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated appearance typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • A grayscale portrait of a person with long dark hair, featuring a bright pink pixelated symbol in the lower center.

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

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale portrait pink symbol
  • person long hair pink arrow 3
  • pixelated symbol 3
  • grayscale portrait neutral expression

Objects

  • pink pixelated symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be a single frame with no visible animation changes

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
  • grayscale

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • grayscale portrait
  • long dark hair
  • eyes closed
  • neutral expression
  • pink pixelated symbol
  • left-pointing arrow
  • digit 3
  • low-resolution
  • monochrome background
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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
20090820110358298152900
Archive entry
20090820110358298152900.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:01 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#20090820110358298152900.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090820110358298152900.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016