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Pixelated close-up of a person's face wearing dark sunglasses with reflective highlights, set against a light brown background.

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Pixelated close-up of a person's face wearing dark sunglasses with reflective highlights, set against a light brown background.

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • cropped to face
  • side profile

Dense Caption

The image is a static pixelated close-up showing the right side of a person's head and upper face. The individual wears large dark sunglasses with visible white reflections on the lenses. Skin tone appears medium-brown. Background consists of blurred light brown tones with brighter vertical elements on both sides. Pixelation obscures fine details but reveals no clothing or additional props beyond the sunglasses.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person's face wearing dark sunglasses with reflective highlights, set against a light brown background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Metadata Only Entities

  • celebrities

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated sunglasses reflection
  • medium-brown skin close-up
  • light brown background profile

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original dimensions

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • sunglasses
  • reflection
  • medium-brown skin
  • light brown background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200802211827501618151896
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:15 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/84/845f1603d3ce2b6c5e78bd168574d2e31329d0a546bf8c71a16772b246361b80.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:15 UTC
Archive ID
845f1603d3ce2b6c
SHA-256
845f1603d3ce2b6c5e78bd168574d2e31329d0a546bf8c71a16772b246361b80
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:31 UTC
Run
1115
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.095034

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated close-up of a person's face wearing dark sunglasses with reflective highlights, set against a light brown background.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 01:39 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,303 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,097, response 576

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • sunglasses (object, 0.80)
  • close up (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • brown
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • cropped to face
  • side profile

Dense Caption

The image is a static pixelated close-up showing the right side of a person's head and upper face. The individual wears large dark sunglasses with visible white reflections on the lenses. Skin tone appears medium-brown. Background consists of blurred light brown tones with brighter vertical elements on both sides. Pixelation obscures fine details but reveals no clothing or additional props beyond the sunglasses.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person's face wearing dark sunglasses with reflective highlights, set against a light brown background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Metadata Only Entities

  • celebrities

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated sunglasses reflection
  • medium-brown skin close-up
  • light brown background profile

Objects

  • sunglasses

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original dimensions

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Style

  • pixelated
  • close-up

Subjects

  • person

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • sunglasses
  • reflection
  • medium-brown skin
  • light brown 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
200802211827501618151896
Archive entry
200802211827501618151896.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:15 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#200802211827501618151896.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200802211827501618151896.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016