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Pixelated static image of a person with long blonde hair wearing dark sunglasses and a gray beanie, set against a brown wooden background.

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Pixelated static image of a person with long blonde hair wearing dark sunglasses and a gray beanie, set against a brown wooden background.

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • chest-up view
  • centered subject
  • horizontal background lines

Dense Caption

Static pixelated icon shows a figure from the chest up. The figure has light skin tone, wears dark rectangular sunglasses covering eyes, and a gray knit beanie with visible texture. Long straight blonde hair extends below shoulders. Dark clothing is partially visible on left shoulder. Background consists of horizontal brown wooden planks with subtle grain patterns. Pixelation creates blocky appearance across entire image.

Description

  • Pixelated static image of a person with long blonde hair wearing dark sunglasses and a gray beanie, set against a brown wooden 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 topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • celebrities

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blonde hair sunglasses beanie
  • gray beanie brown wood background
  • pixelated person chest-up view
  • dark clothing wooden planks

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • long blonde hair
  • dark sunglasses
  • gray beanie
  • brown wood background
  • light skin tone
  • chest-up view
  • pixelated texture

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200711151636201451611162
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:57 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/89/8924d1b593caca160a5ef4126a931af69c0a54dcc0feca25f8a0e7ca6b1c80a9.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:57 UTC
Archive ID
8924d1b593caca16
SHA-256
8924d1b593caca160a5ef4126a931af69c0a54dcc0feca25f8a0e7ca6b1c80a9
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:16 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.085955

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated static image of a person with long blonde hair wearing dark sunglasses and a gray beanie, set against a brown wooden background.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 18:42 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,866 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,091, response 557

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blonde (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light skin tone (color, 0.80)
  • beanie (object, 0.80)
  • sunglasses (object, 0.80)
  • wooden planks (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • gray
  • brown
  • black
  • blonde
  • light skin tone

Composition

  • chest-up view
  • centered subject
  • horizontal background lines

Dense Caption

Static pixelated icon shows a figure from the chest up. The figure has light skin tone, wears dark rectangular sunglasses covering eyes, and a gray knit beanie with visible texture. Long straight blonde hair extends below shoulders. Dark clothing is partially visible on left shoulder. Background consists of horizontal brown wooden planks with subtle grain patterns. Pixelation creates blocky appearance across entire image.

Description

  • Pixelated static image of a person with long blonde hair wearing dark sunglasses and a gray beanie, set against a brown wooden 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 topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • celebrities

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blonde hair sunglasses beanie
  • gray beanie brown wood background
  • pixelated person chest-up view
  • dark clothing wooden planks

Objects

  • sunglasses
  • beanie
  • wooden planks

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • static

Subjects

  • person

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • long blonde hair
  • dark sunglasses
  • gray beanie
  • brown wood background
  • light skin tone
  • chest-up view
  • pixelated texture
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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
200711151636201451611162
Archive entry
200711151636201451611162.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:57 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#200711151636201451611162.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200711151636201451611162.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016