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Pixelated image of a person with short dark hair wearing a black shirt, standing against a green background.

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Pixelated image of a person with short dark hair wearing a black shirt, standing against a green background.

Pixelated image of a person with short dark hair wearing a black shirt, standing against a green background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Budd…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered figure
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated figure with short dark hair and light skin. The figure wears a black V-neck shirt over a white undershirt. One arm is extended forward. The background consists of solid green pixels. The image has low resolution with visible blocky artifacts typical of early digital compression.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with short dark hair wearing a black shirt, standing against a green background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Metadata Only Entities

  • celebrities

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person black shirt green background
  • short dark hair extended arm pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original dimensions

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • short dark hair
  • black V-neck shirt
  • white undershirt
  • green background
  • one arm extended

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200803291624111969601227
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 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/8c651ccebe756bf2e8d8f5ab19970b2fdca4e400a7c2e1f07c6a4a8e96c2767d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 UTC
Archive ID
8c651ccebe756bf2
SHA-256
8c651ccebe756bf2e8d8f5ab19970b2fdca4e400a7c2e1f07c6a4a8e96c2767d
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
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
0.109256

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image of a person with short dark hair wearing a black shirt, standing against a green background.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 21:18 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,412 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,093, response 565

Review tags

  • arm extended (action, 0.80)
  • standing (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • standing
  • arm extended

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • green
  • light brown

Composition

  • centered figure
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated figure with short dark hair and light skin. The figure wears a black V-neck shirt over a white undershirt. One arm is extended forward. The background consists of solid green pixels. The image has low resolution with visible blocky artifacts typical of early digital compression.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with short dark hair wearing a black shirt, standing against a green background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Metadata Only Entities

  • celebrities

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person black shirt green background
  • short dark hair extended arm pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original dimensions

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • short dark hair
  • black V-neck shirt
  • white undershirt
  • green background
  • one arm extended
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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
200803291624111969601227
Archive entry
200803291624111969601227.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 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#200803291624111969601227.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200803291624111969601227.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016