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A pixelated close-up of a person with light skin, brown hair, and a red garment, set against a red background with brown and orange tones.

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A pixelated close-up of a person with light skin, brown hair, and a red garment, set against a red background with brown and orange tones.

A pixelated close-up of a person with light skin, brown hair, and a red garment, set against a red background with brown and orange tones. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet A…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • cropped
  • close-up
  • upper body
  • red background on left
  • brown/orange background on right

Dense Caption

The image is a static, pixelated close-up of a person with light skin tone, brown hair, and a red garment. The person has a neutral expression with visible eyes, nose, and mouth. The background features a solid red section on the left and brown/orange tones on the right. The image uses a low-resolution, blocky rendering style with visible pixelation. No text or symbols are present. The composition is cropped to show the upper body and head.

Description

  • A pixelated close-up of a person with light skin, brown hair, and a red garment, set against a red background with brown and orange tones.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person red background
  • brown hair light skin
  • red garment cropped close-up
  • low-resolution blocky rendering

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution

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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  • pixelated
  • light skin
  • brown hair
  • red garment
  • red background
  • neutral expression
  • low-resolution
  • blocky rendering
  • upper body
  • cropped composition

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070817163058808517157
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/81/81a04a4aad3dcefd45a928199f4f70174d2adfd93be9ee3b13197ef7d95ca1a9.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC
Archive ID
81a04a4aad3dcefd
SHA-256
81a04a4aad3dcefd45a928199f4f70174d2adfd93be9ee3b13197ef7d95ca1a9
Content-safety assessments (3)
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Assessed
August 27, 2026 at 00:52 UTC
Run
1349
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
August 1, 2026 at 06:30 UTC
Run
1252
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:25 UTC
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OpenAI category scores

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

A pixelated close-up of a person with light skin, brown hair, and a red garment, set against a red background with brown and orange tones.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 01:30 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,033 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,088, response 728

Review tags

  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • light skin (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • brown
  • orange
  • light skin

Composition

  • cropped
  • close-up
  • upper body
  • red background on left
  • brown/orange background on right

Dense Caption

The image is a static, pixelated close-up of a person with light skin tone, brown hair, and a red garment. The person has a neutral expression with visible eyes, nose, and mouth. The background features a solid red section on the left and brown/orange tones on the right. The image uses a low-resolution, blocky rendering style with visible pixelation. No text or symbols are present. The composition is cropped to show the upper body and head.

Description

  • A pixelated close-up of a person with light skin, brown hair, and a red garment, set against a red background with brown and orange tones.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person red background
  • brown hair light skin
  • red garment cropped close-up
  • low-resolution blocky rendering

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
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  • 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
  • blocky

Subjects

  • person

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 12:00 UTC
Run
52
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
20070817163058808517157
Archive entry
20070817163058808517157.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 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#20070817163058808517157.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070817163058808517157.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016