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Pixelated grayscale profile of a person wearing a light-colored cap and dark sunglasses against a black background.

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Pixelated grayscale profile of a person wearing a light-colored cap and dark sunglasses against a black background.

Pixelated grayscale profile of a person wearing a light-colored cap and dark sunglasses against a black background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shar…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • right profile
  • centered subject
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Static pixelated grayscale image showing a right-profile view of a person's head and upper shoulders. The figure wears a light-colored cap with a rounded crown and flat brim, and dark sunglasses covering the eyes. The background is solid black. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation, creating a blocky appearance. The cap's brim casts a shadow on the forehead area. The person's hair is dark and appears to be short. The nose is prominent in profile, and the mouth is closed. The lighting creates a high-contrast effect with bright highlights on the cap and forehead, and deep shadows on the face and background.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale profile of a person wearing a light-colored cap and dark sunglasses against a black background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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
  • 20070731222747229241740

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale profile cap sunglasses
  • pixelated black background
  • low resolution cap sunglasses
  • grayscale profile sunglasses
  • pixelated cap sunglasses
  • grayscale cap sunglasses
  • profile cap sunglasses
  • grayscale profile black background

Preprocessing Notes

  • low resolution
  • pixelation

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

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  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • profile view
  • cap
  • sunglasses
  • black background
  • low resolution
  • blocky appearance
  • high contrast
  • closed mouth
  • short hair
  • nose prominent
  • brim shadow
  • forehead highlight

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070731222747229241740
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.8 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8c/8cf276a95df942b184f3102977794feb3d050a448b6a28f58b2634e4eb8944af.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 UTC
Archive ID
8cf276a95df942b1
SHA-256
8cf276a95df942b184f3102977794feb3d050a448b6a28f58b2634e4eb8944af
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:42 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
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Overall label
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Overall score
0.074115

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

Pixelated grayscale profile of a person wearing a light-colored cap and dark sunglasses against a black background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 17:08 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,066 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,092, response 776

Review tags

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  • white (color, 0.80)
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  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • cap (object, 0.80)
  • sunglasses (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • right profile
  • centered subject
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Static pixelated grayscale image showing a right-profile view of a person's head and upper shoulders. The figure wears a light-colored cap with a rounded crown and flat brim, and dark sunglasses covering the eyes. The background is solid black. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation, creating a blocky appearance. The cap's brim casts a shadow on the forehead area. The person's hair is dark and appears to be short. The nose is prominent in profile, and the mouth is closed. The lighting creates a high-contrast effect with bright highlights on the cap and forehead, and deep shadows on the face and background.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale profile of a person wearing a light-colored cap and dark sunglasses against a black background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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
  • 20070731222747229241740

Mood

  • mysterious
  • neutral

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  • pixelated black background
  • low resolution cap sunglasses
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Objects

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  • sunglasses

Preprocessing Notes

  • low resolution
  • pixelation

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • 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

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

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  • sunglasses
  • black background
  • low resolution
  • blocky appearance
  • high contrast
  • closed mouth
  • short hair
  • nose prominent
  • brim shadow
  • forehead highlight
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
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July 27, 2026 at 10:00 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
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Error
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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
20070731222747229241740
Archive entry
20070731222747229241740.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 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#20070731222747229241740.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070731222747229241740.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016