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Pixelated grayscale image of a person wearing sunglasses and a cap, with text reading 'kavln' and '1999' in the lower-left corner.

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Pixelated grayscale image of a person wearing sunglasses and a cap, with text reading 'kavln' and '1999' in the lower-left corner.

Pixelated grayscale image of a person wearing sunglasses and a cap, with text reading 'kavln' and '1999' in the lower-left corner. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive F…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • profile view
  • text in lower-left corner
  • solid black background

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixelated static image shows a person's face in profile view, wearing dark sunglasses and a light-colored cap. The person has a broad smile with visible teeth. Left hand is raised near the face. Lower-left corner contains white pixelated text: 'kavln' on top line, '1999' below it. Background is solid black. Image uses dithering for shading. Pixelation is high, reducing facial details. Text appears to be a name and year. No other objects or symbols visible.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale image of a person wearing sunglasses and a cap, with text reading 'kavln' and '1999' in the lower-left corner.

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
  • 2007-2016
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale smiling person sunglasses cap
  • kavln 1999 pixelated text
  • hand raised profile view
  • black background pixelated image

Objects

  • hand

Preprocessing Notes

  • high pixelation reduces facial details

Source Metadata Interpretation

untrustedSourceHintsJson contains multiple era claims (2007-2016) and collection claims (franksicons, aim, historical-archive) but these are not confirmed by image pixels

Visible Text

  • kavln
  • 1999

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • sunglasses
  • cap
  • smiling
  • hand raised
  • pixelated
  • black background
  • text 'kavln'
  • text '1999'

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080903191312691998809
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.5 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/83/8332202f4be977dfda4dc80b412e72c331cc4adfad5ccfbb74cd049e4f787a84.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC
Archive ID
8332202f4be977df
SHA-256
8332202f4be977dfda4dc80b412e72c331cc4adfad5ccfbb74cd049e4f787a84
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:28 UTC
Run
1109
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.069004

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.930996onnx/unsafe0.069004onnx/nsfl0.036419onnx/nsfw0.032585
Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated grayscale image of a person wearing sunglasses and a cap, with text reading 'kavln' and '1999' in the lower-left corner.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 22:49 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,163 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,087, response 683

Review tags

  • hand raised (action, 0.80)
  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • cap (object, 0.80)
  • hand (object, 0.80)
  • sunglasses (object, 0.80)
  • dithered (style, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling
  • hand raised

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • profile view
  • text in lower-left corner
  • solid black background

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixelated static image shows a person's face in profile view, wearing dark sunglasses and a light-colored cap. The person has a broad smile with visible teeth. Left hand is raised near the face. Lower-left corner contains white pixelated text: 'kavln' on top line, '1999' below it. Background is solid black. Image uses dithering for shading. Pixelation is high, reducing facial details. Text appears to be a name and year. No other objects or symbols visible.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale image of a person wearing sunglasses and a cap, with text reading 'kavln' and '1999' in the lower-left corner.

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
  • 2007-2016
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons

Mood

  • happy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale smiling person sunglasses cap
  • kavln 1999 pixelated text
  • hand raised profile view
  • black background pixelated image

Objects

  • sunglasses
  • cap
  • hand

Preprocessing Notes

  • high pixelation reduces facial details

Source Metadata Interpretation

untrustedSourceHintsJson contains multiple era claims (2007-2016) and collection claims (franksicons, aim, historical-archive) but these are not confirmed by image pixels

Style

  • pixelated
  • grayscale
  • dithered

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • kavln
  • 1999

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • sunglasses
  • cap
  • smiling
  • hand raised
  • pixelated
  • black background
  • text 'kavln'
  • text '1999'
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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
20080903191312691998809
Archive entry
20080903191312691998809.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 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#20080903191312691998809.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080903191312691998809.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016