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Static grayscale image of a person with dark hair, light skin tone, and visible ear against neutral background.

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Static grayscale image of a person with dark hair, light skin tone, and visible ear against neutral background.

Static grayscale image of a person with dark hair, light skin tone, and visible ear against neutral background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared B…

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Composition

  • partial profile view
  • tight crop on head and neck
  • two-toned background gradient

Dense Caption

Grayscale static icon shows partial profile view of individual with short dark hair. Visible features include left ear, side of nose, mouth area, and neck. Skin tone is light gray scale. Background consists of two-toned gradient: lighter on left, darker on right. Image has low resolution with pixelated texture. No visible clothing or accessories. Composition crops tightly around head and upper neck.

Description

  • Static grayscale image of a person with dark hair, light skin tone, and visible ear against neutral 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: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200805101941152025322114

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale static profile icon
  • dark hair light skin tone
  • pixelated grayscale portrait
  • two-toned background profile

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • static
  • partial profile
  • dark hair
  • light skin tone
  • left ear visible
  • no clothing
  • pixelated texture
  • two-toned background
  • low resolution

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200805101941152025322114
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:26 UTC

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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
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:26 UTC
Archive ID
8ac8c7cbfcffb6ec
SHA-256
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:40 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.072399

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Static grayscale image of a person with dark hair, light skin tone, and visible ear against neutral background.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 13:59 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
13,605 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,089, response 615

Review tags

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  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • gray
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • partial profile view
  • tight crop on head and neck
  • two-toned background gradient

Dense Caption

Grayscale static icon shows partial profile view of individual with short dark hair. Visible features include left ear, side of nose, mouth area, and neck. Skin tone is light gray scale. Background consists of two-toned gradient: lighter on left, darker on right. Image has low resolution with pixelated texture. No visible clothing or accessories. Composition crops tightly around head and upper neck.

Description

  • Static grayscale image of a person with dark hair, light skin tone, and visible ear against neutral 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: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200805101941152025322114

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale static profile icon
  • dark hair light skin tone
  • pixelated grayscale portrait
  • two-toned background profile

Style

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • static

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

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  • static
  • partial profile
  • dark hair
  • light skin tone
  • left ear visible
  • no clothing
  • pixelated texture
  • two-toned background
  • low resolution
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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
200805101941152025322114
Archive entry
200805101941152025322114.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:26 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#200805101941152025322114.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200805101941152025322114.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016