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Pixelated grayscale image of a person with short dark hair wearing light-colored clothing against plain background.

Pixelated grayscale image of a person with short dark hair wearing light-colored clothing against plain background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shar…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • chest-up view
  • centered subject
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Static pixelated grayscale image shows figure from chest up. Figure has short, straight black hair styled in classic 1970s cut. Face features visible eyes, nose, and mouth; expression appears neutral. Clothing is light gray or off-white with subtle darker shading on left side of torso. Background is solid white. Image exhibits low-resolution pixelation typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale image of a person with short dark hair wearing light-colored clothing against plain background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200709231146331786930270

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007-2016

Named Entities

  • Bruce Lee

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • bruce lee pixelated grayscale
  • grayscale celebrity icon
  • short black hair neutral expression
  • chest-up view bruce lee

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from smaller source

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Visually Supported Entities

  • celebrities

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • short black hair
  • light clothing
  • neutral expression
  • chest-up view
  • solid background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709231146331786930270
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:47 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.1 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/88/887c0b68878d00b73b5dd8cdd8cc1898af8003df8609a67d6e4b8720886b6755.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:47 UTC
Archive ID
887c0b68878d00b7
SHA-256
887c0b68878d00b73b5dd8cdd8cc1898af8003df8609a67d6e4b8720886b6755
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:38 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.102021

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated grayscale image of a person with short dark hair wearing light-colored clothing against plain background.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 04:15 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,624 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,095, response 625

Review tags

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

Colors

  • black
  • gray
  • white

Composition

  • chest-up view
  • centered subject
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Static pixelated grayscale image shows figure from chest up. Figure has short, straight black hair styled in classic 1970s cut. Face features visible eyes, nose, and mouth; expression appears neutral. Clothing is light gray or off-white with subtle darker shading on left side of torso. Background is solid white. Image exhibits low-resolution pixelation typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale image of a person with short dark hair wearing light-colored clothing against plain background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200709231146331786930270

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007-2016

Mood

  • neutral

Named Entities

  • Bruce Lee

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • bruce lee pixelated grayscale
  • grayscale celebrity icon
  • short black hair neutral expression
  • chest-up view bruce lee

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from smaller source

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Style

  • pixelated
  • grayscale
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Visually Supported Entities

  • celebrities

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • short black hair
  • light clothing
  • neutral expression
  • chest-up view
  • solid 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
200709231146331786930270
Archive entry
200709231146331786930270.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:47 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#200709231146331786930270.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709231146331786930270.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016