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Black-and-white pixelated image of a stylized figure with dark hair, two small dots for eyes, and a white shape resembling a mouth or chin against a gray background.

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Black-and-white pixelated image of a stylized figure with dark hair, two small dots for eyes, and a white shape resembling a mouth or chin against a gray background.

Black-and-white pixelated image of a stylized figure with dark hair, two small dots for eyes, and a white shape resembling a mouth or chin against a gray background. 48×48 GIF AIM…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered figure
  • horizontal bands
  • vertical edge stripes

Dense Caption

Black-and-white pixelated image of a stylized figure with dark hair, two small dots for eyes, and a white shape resembling a mouth or chin against a gray background. The figure's head is tilted slightly left, with visible ear on the right side. The background consists of horizontal gray bands with vertical black and white stripes on the left and right edges. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation, typical of early digital graphics. No text or additional objects are present.

Description

Black-and-white pixelated image of a stylized figure with dark hair, two small dots for eyes, and a white shape resembling a mouth or chin against a gray background.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 20070820221048528027488

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • stylized figure pixelated monochrome
  • black white gray pixel art
  • low resolution buddy icon
  • gray background vertical stripes
  • two dots eyes white mouth shape
  • head tilted left ear visible
  • horizontal bands vertical edge stripes
  • pixelated monochrome figure

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or cropped from a smaller source

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

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  • stylized figure
  • dark hair
  • two small dots for eyes
  • white mouth/chin shape
  • gray background
  • horizontal gray bands
  • vertical black/white stripes
  • low resolution
  • pixelated
  • head tilted left
  • visible ear

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070820221048528027488
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8d/8d80b2310cc5dc8b1516242660514cfea5b5f7a7764998a947c71299d8bff6dd.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 UTC
Archive ID
8d80b2310cc5dc8b
SHA-256
8d80b2310cc5dc8b1516242660514cfea5b5f7a7764998a947c71299d8bff6dd
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:43 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.112791

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

Black-and-white pixelated image of a stylized figure with dark hair, two small dots for eyes, and a white shape resembling a mouth or chin against a gray background.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 03:06 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,657 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,091, response 823

Review tags

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  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • monochrome (style, 0.80)
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  • stylized figure (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • centered figure
  • horizontal bands
  • vertical edge stripes

Dense Caption

Black-and-white pixelated image of a stylized figure with dark hair, two small dots for eyes, and a white shape resembling a mouth or chin against a gray background. The figure's head is tilted slightly left, with visible ear on the right side. The background consists of horizontal gray bands with vertical black and white stripes on the left and right edges. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation, typical of early digital graphics. No text or additional objects are present.

Description

Black-and-white pixelated image of a stylized figure with dark hair, two small dots for eyes, and a white shape resembling a mouth or chin against a gray background.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 20070820221048528027488

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • black white gray pixel art
  • low resolution buddy icon
  • gray background vertical stripes
  • two dots eyes white mouth shape
  • head tilted left ear visible
  • horizontal bands vertical edge stripes
  • pixelated monochrome figure

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or cropped from a smaller source

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
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  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

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  • pixelated
  • monochrome
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • stylized figure

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  • dark hair
  • two small dots for eyes
  • white mouth/chin shape
  • gray background
  • horizontal gray bands
  • vertical black/white stripes
  • low resolution
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  • head tilted left
  • visible ear
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 12:26 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)
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
20070820221048528027488
Archive entry
20070820221048528027488.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 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#20070820221048528027488.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070820221048528027488.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016