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Pixelated grayscale portrait of a person with short dark hair, wearing a dark collared shirt against light and dark background sections.

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Pixelated grayscale portrait of a person with short dark hair, wearing a dark collared shirt against light and dark background sections.

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • head-and-shoulders crop
  • centered subject
  • light and dark background contrast

Dense Caption

The image is a static pixelated grayscale photograph. It shows the upper torso and head of an individual with short dark hair styled in a side-parted cut. The subject wears a dark collared garment. Background elements include a light gray section on the left, a darker vertical shape on the right, and a bright white area behind the right shoulder. Facial features visible are eyes, nose, mouth, and eyebrows; expression appears neutral. Pixelation is high throughout.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale portrait of a person with short dark hair, wearing a dark collared shirt against light and dark background sections.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated grayscale person
  • dark collared shirt neutral expression
  • light gray and dark background portrait

Preprocessing Notes

  • high pixelation reduces detail clarity

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • pixelated grayscale
  • short dark hair
  • side-parted cut
  • dark collared shirt
  • light gray background left
  • dark vertical shape right
  • white area behind shoulder
  • neutral facial expression

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071103223108906475775
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:53 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8c/8c1157c6bddcea459ccc5ea7a66ccbc155a06d9f09c029e6de253bda7263e10d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:53 UTC
Archive ID
8c1157c6bddcea45
SHA-256
8c1157c6bddcea459ccc5ea7a66ccbc155a06d9f09c029e6de253bda7263e10d
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:42 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.078180

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated grayscale portrait of a person with short dark hair, wearing a dark collared shirt against light and dark background sections.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 14:58 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,758 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,087, response 697

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • photographic (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • gray
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • head-and-shoulders crop
  • centered subject
  • light and dark background contrast

Dense Caption

The image is a static pixelated grayscale photograph. It shows the upper torso and head of an individual with short dark hair styled in a side-parted cut. The subject wears a dark collared garment. Background elements include a light gray section on the left, a darker vertical shape on the right, and a bright white area behind the right shoulder. Facial features visible are eyes, nose, mouth, and eyebrows; expression appears neutral. Pixelation is high throughout.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale portrait of a person with short dark hair, wearing a dark collared shirt against light and dark background sections.

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

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated grayscale person
  • dark collared shirt neutral expression
  • light gray and dark background portrait

Preprocessing Notes

  • high pixelation reduces detail clarity

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Style

  • photographic
  • pixelated

Subjects

  • person

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • pixelated grayscale
  • short dark hair
  • side-parted cut
  • dark collared shirt
  • light gray background left
  • dark vertical shape right
  • white area behind shoulder
  • neutral facial expression
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TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
20071103223108906475775
Archive entry
20071103223108906475775.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:53 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#20071103223108906475775.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071103223108906475775.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016