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Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair and light skin wearing a dark top against a muted background.

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Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair and light skin wearing a dark top against a muted background.

Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair and light skin wearing a dark top against a muted background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Mood

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Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered subject
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair and light skin wearing a dark top against a muted background. The hair is shoulder-length with darker roots and lighter ends. The person's face is slightly angled with visible eyes, nose, and mouth. The background is a solid light brown color. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital images.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair and light skin wearing a dark top against a muted 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20081221133205335937438
  • 200812211333231851600263

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person dark hair light skin
  • low-resolution dark hair light skin
  • dark hair light skin pixelated
  • person dark hair light skin
  • pixelated face dark hair
  • low-resolution face dark hair
  • dark hair light skin person
  • person face dark hair

Preprocessing Notes

  • low-resolution
  • blocky pixels

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

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  • light skin
  • dark top
  • muted background
  • shoulder-length hair
  • low-resolution
  • blocky appearance
  • face
  • eyes
  • nose
  • mouth
  • light brown background
  • slightly angled face
  • hair roots darker
  • hair ends lighter

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081221133205335937438
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200812211333231851600263
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/84/84b8c4238a9310fd9ab08071567db68d627b2e40a3185a70d956574b6416e0b4.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 UTC
Archive ID
84b8c4238a9310fd
SHA-256
84b8c4238a9310fd9ab08071567db68d627b2e40a3185a70d956574b6416e0b4
Content-safety assessments (3)
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Assessed
August 18, 2026 at 14:54 UTC
Run
1312
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000082

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 27, 2026 at 10:54 UTC
Run
1196
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:32 UTC
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1117
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Overall label
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Overall score
0.633583

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair and light skin wearing a dark top against a muted background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 14:47 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,871 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,140, response 815

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • dark brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • dark brown
  • light brown
  • gray
  • black

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered subject
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair and light skin wearing a dark top against a muted background. The hair is shoulder-length with darker roots and lighter ends. The person's face is slightly angled with visible eyes, nose, and mouth. The background is a solid light brown color. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital images.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair and light skin wearing a dark top against a muted 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20081221133205335937438
  • 200812211333231851600263

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • low-resolution dark hair light skin
  • dark hair light skin pixelated
  • person dark hair light skin
  • pixelated face dark hair
  • low-resolution face dark hair
  • dark hair light skin person
  • person face dark hair

Preprocessing Notes

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Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
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  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
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Subjects

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  • face
  • eyes
  • nose
  • mouth
  • light brown background
  • slightly angled face
  • hair roots darker
  • hair ends lighter
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Full source records (2)

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
20081221133205335937438
Archive entry
20081221133205335937438.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 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#20081221133205335937438.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081221133205335937438.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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
200812211333231851600263
Archive entry
200812211333231851600263.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 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#200812211333231851600263.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200812211333231851600263.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016