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Pixelated static image of a character with dark hair, light skin, and closed eyes, wearing a dark top against a blurred background with red and brown tones.

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Pixelated static image of a character with dark hair, light skin, and closed eyes, wearing a dark top against a blurred background with red and brown tones.

Pixelated static image of a character with dark hair, light skin, and closed eyes, wearing a dark top against a blurred background with red and brown tones. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy ic…

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Source terms

Composition

  • centered character
  • horizontal background bands
  • non-detailed backdrop

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image shows a character with dark brown hair, light beige skin, and closed eyes with white highlights. The character wears a dark brown top with visible collar. Background features blurred horizontal bands of red, brown, and beige tones. Image has low resolution with visible pixelation across all elements. No text or symbols are present. Composition centers the character's upper body against a non-detailed backdrop.

Description

Pixelated static image of a character with dark hair, light skin, and closed eyes, wearing a dark top against a blurred background with red and brown tones.

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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200709021928511505125900

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • dark brown hair closed eyes
  • pixelated character static image
  • red brown beige background bands
  • low resolution character upper body

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  • dark brown hair
  • closed eyes
  • light beige skin
  • dark brown top
  • red background bands
  • brown background bands
  • beige background bands
  • pixelated image
  • static image
  • non-detailed backdrop
  • character upper body
  • white eye highlights
  • horizontal background bands
  • low resolution
  • visible pixelation

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709021928511505125900
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 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/8b/8bc0202f8309ee4e1bdddb0fdce0da2bbad90505e4f80d3763985f397f40df88.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 UTC
Archive ID
8bc0202f8309ee4e
SHA-256
8bc0202f8309ee4e1bdddb0fdce0da2bbad90505e4f80d3763985f397f40df88
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:41 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.113578

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated static image of a character with dark hair, light skin, and closed eyes, wearing a dark top against a blurred background with red and brown tones.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 09:24 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,835 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,089, response 737

Review tags

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  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark brown (color, 0.80)
  • light beige (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
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  • static (style, 0.80)
  • character (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • dark brown
  • light beige
  • red
  • brown
  • beige
  • white

Composition

  • centered character
  • horizontal background bands
  • non-detailed backdrop

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image shows a character with dark brown hair, light beige skin, and closed eyes with white highlights. The character wears a dark brown top with visible collar. Background features blurred horizontal bands of red, brown, and beige tones. Image has low resolution with visible pixelation across all elements. No text or symbols are present. Composition centers the character's upper body against a non-detailed backdrop.

Description

Pixelated static image of a character with dark hair, light skin, and closed eyes, wearing a dark top against a blurred background with red and brown tones.

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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200709021928511505125900

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • dark brown hair closed eyes
  • pixelated character static image
  • red brown beige background bands
  • low resolution character upper body

Style

  • pixelated
  • static
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • character

Wordwall

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  • closed eyes
  • light beige skin
  • dark brown top
  • red background bands
  • brown background bands
  • beige background bands
  • pixelated image
  • static image
  • non-detailed backdrop
  • character upper body
  • white eye highlights
  • horizontal background bands
  • low resolution
  • visible pixelation
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 14:01 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
200709021928511505125900
Archive entry
200709021928511505125900.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 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#200709021928511505125900.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709021928511505125900.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016