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A static image of a person with brown hair wearing dark sunglasses, a light-colored shirt, and a wide-brimmed hat in the top-right , with a separate showing the same person without the hat

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A static image of a person with brown hair wearing dark sunglasses, a light-colored shirt, and a wide-brimmed hat in the top-right , with a separate showing the same person without the hat

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Mood

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Source terms

Composition

  • four
  • top-left, top-right, bottom-left, bottom-right
  • bottom-right empty

Dense Caption

The image is a four-panel grid. Top-left panel: person with brown hair, dark sunglasses, light-colored shirt, blurred background with yellow and green tones. Top-right panel: same person wearing a wide-brimmed light brown hat, sunglasses, light-colored shirt, background includes blurred yellow and green tones. Bottom-left panel: same person with brown hair, dark sunglasses, light-colored shirt, blurred green background. Bottom-right panel: empty light gray space. All panels show the same person with consistent facial features and sunglasses. The image has low resolution and pixelation.

Description

A static image of a person with brown hair wearing dark sunglasses, a light-colored shirt, and a wide-brimmed hat in the top-right , with a separate showing the same person without the hat

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200901221540521676900319

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person brown hair sunglasses hat
  • sunglasses hat brown hair
  • low resolution image
  • four empty gray

Preprocessing Notes

  • image contains four panels; bottom-right is empty
  • quarantined description: A static image of a person with brown hair wearing dark sunglasses, a light-colored shirt, and a wide-brimmed hat in the top-right panel, with a separate panel showing the same person without the hat.
  • quarantined wordwall: empty gray panel
  • quarantined wordwall: four-panel grid
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: four-panel grid
  • quarantined retrieval: four panel grid empty gray
  • quarantined retrieval: low resolution grid image

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

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • dark sunglasses
  • light-colored shirt
  • wide-brimmed hat
  • blurred background
  • low resolution
  • four
  • empty gray

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200901221540521676900319
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:50 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
6.2 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
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 15:50 UTC
Archive ID
8c608808a33ca678
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 19, 2026 at 21:26 UTC
Run
1315
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000010

OpenAI category scores

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 14, 2026 at 10:10 UTC
Run
1290
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000614

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.000614falseself-harm0.000460falsesexual0.000020falseviolence/graphic0.000019falseself-harm/intent0.000003falseself-harm/instructions0.000001falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:42 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
0.149934

OpenAI category scores

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A static image of a person with brown hair wearing dark sunglasses, a light-colored shirt, and a wide-brimmed hat in the top-right , with a separate showing the same person without the hat

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 19:32 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,531 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,115, response 837

Review tags

  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • light (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • hat (object, 0.80)
  • sunglasses (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • brown
  • dark
  • light
  • green
  • yellow
  • gray

Composition

  • four
  • top-left, top-right, bottom-left, bottom-right
  • bottom-right empty

Dense Caption

The image is a four-panel grid. Top-left panel: person with brown hair, dark sunglasses, light-colored shirt, blurred background with yellow and green tones. Top-right panel: same person wearing a wide-brimmed light brown hat, sunglasses, light-colored shirt, background includes blurred yellow and green tones. Bottom-left panel: same person with brown hair, dark sunglasses, light-colored shirt, blurred green background. Bottom-right panel: empty light gray space. All panels show the same person with consistent facial features and sunglasses. The image has low resolution and pixelation.

Description

A static image of a person with brown hair wearing dark sunglasses, a light-colored shirt, and a wide-brimmed hat in the top-right , with a separate showing the same person without the hat

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200901221540521676900319

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person brown hair sunglasses hat
  • sunglasses hat brown hair
  • low resolution image
  • four empty gray

Objects

  • sunglasses
  • hat

Preprocessing Notes

  • image contains four panels; bottom-right is empty
  • quarantined description: A static image of a person with brown hair wearing dark sunglasses, a light-colored shirt, and a wide-brimmed hat in the top-right panel, with a separate panel showing the same person without the hat.
  • quarantined wordwall: empty gray panel
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  • quarantined composition: four-panel grid
  • quarantined retrieval: four panel grid empty gray
  • quarantined retrieval: low resolution grid image

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • dark sunglasses
  • light-colored shirt
  • wide-brimmed hat
  • blurred background
  • low resolution
  • four
  • empty gray
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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
200901221540521676900319
Archive entry
200901221540521676900319.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:50 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#200901221540521676900319.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200901221540521676900319.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016