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Pixelated image of a person wearing sunglasses and earphones, with a sleeveless striped shirt against dark background.

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Pixelated image of a person wearing sunglasses and earphones, with a sleeveless striped shirt against dark background.

Pixelated image of a person wearing sunglasses and earphones, with a sleeveless striped shirt against dark background. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fran…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered subject
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The icon shows a pixelated figure from the shoulders up. The figure wears large dark sunglasses, white over-ear headphones, and a sleeveless shirt with horizontal black-and-white stripes. Skin tone is medium brown. Background is solid black in all visible sections except for one section showing light gray. The image has low resolution with blocky pixels typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person wearing sunglasses and earphones, with a sleeveless striped shirt against dark background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person wearing headphones sunglasses
  • striped shirt pixelated icon
  • black background medium skin tone

Preprocessing Notes

  • one section shows light gray instead of black background

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: celebrities

Visually Supported Entities

  • celebrities

Wordwall

  • sunglasses
  • headphones
  • striped shirt
  • pixelated
  • black background
  • medium skin tone

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080828111018711290708
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/88/8893d71516e058f588e586b321ff7800606221546d72c32b3d2f039e0c1bcae1.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 UTC
Archive ID
8893d71516e058f5
SHA-256
8893d71516e058f588e586b321ff7800606221546d72c32b3d2f039e0c1bcae1
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 11, 2026 at 05:29 UTC
Run
1281
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000619

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:38 UTC
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1127
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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Pixelated image of a person wearing sunglasses and earphones, with a sleeveless striped shirt against dark background.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 21:56 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,912 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 593

Review tags

  • wearing headphones (action, 0.80)
  • wearing sunglasses (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • headphones (object, 0.80)
  • shirt (object, 0.80)
  • sunglasses (object, 0.80)
  • digital art (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • wearing headphones
  • wearing sunglasses

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • brown
  • gray

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered subject
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The icon shows a pixelated figure from the shoulders up. The figure wears large dark sunglasses, white over-ear headphones, and a sleeveless shirt with horizontal black-and-white stripes. Skin tone is medium brown. Background is solid black in all visible sections except for one section showing light gray. The image has low resolution with blocky pixels typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person wearing sunglasses and earphones, with a sleeveless striped shirt against dark background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person wearing headphones sunglasses
  • striped shirt pixelated icon
  • black background medium skin tone

Objects

  • headphones
  • sunglasses
  • shirt

Preprocessing Notes

  • one section shows light gray instead of black background

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: celebrities

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • digital art

Subjects

  • person

Visually Supported Entities

  • celebrities

Wordwall

  • sunglasses
  • headphones
  • striped shirt
  • pixelated
  • black background
  • medium skin tone
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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
20080828111018711290708
Archive entry
20080828111018711290708.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 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#20080828111018711290708.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080828111018711290708.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016