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Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair against a blue background, showing upper torso and smiling expression.

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Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair against a blue background, showing upper torso and smiling expression.

Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair against a blue background, showing upper torso and smiling expression. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sha…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • upper torso focus
  • centered subject

Dense Caption

The image is a static pixelated close-up focusing on the upper body of an individual. The subject has short dark hair and light skin tone. Visible features include eyes, nose, mouth forming a smile, and part of the neck. The person appears to be shirtless or wearing minimal clothing. The background consists of solid blue pixels with no discernible patterns or objects. Pixelation is prominent across all areas, reducing fine detail. No text, symbols, or additional props are visible in the frame.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair against a blue background, showing upper torso and smiling expression.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • 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
  • 200709142005122110723235

Named Entities

  • celebrities

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated smiling person blue background
  • dark hair light skin shirtless close-up
  • blue background pixelated upper torso

Preprocessing Notes

  • highly pixelated image with no visible motion or animation frames

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata about collection era and topic coverage but does not alter visual facts

Visually Supported Entities

  • celebrities

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • dark hair
  • light skin
  • smiling expression
  • blue background
  • upper torso
  • shirtless
  • static image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709142005122110723235
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:45 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/8e/8e5597264a93e0ac0b3f6e057599d888c93f18bc55768e0cb09c8d5739f7c11b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:45 UTC
Archive ID
8e5597264a93e0ac
SHA-256
8e5597264a93e0ac0b3f6e057599d888c93f18bc55768e0cb09c8d5739f7c11b
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:44 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.253319

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair against a blue background, showing upper torso and smiling expression.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 02:07 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,122 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,097, response 649

Review tags

  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • beige (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling

Colors

  • blue
  • brown
  • beige

Composition

  • close-up
  • upper torso focus
  • centered subject

Dense Caption

The image is a static pixelated close-up focusing on the upper body of an individual. The subject has short dark hair and light skin tone. Visible features include eyes, nose, mouth forming a smile, and part of the neck. The person appears to be shirtless or wearing minimal clothing. The background consists of solid blue pixels with no discernible patterns or objects. Pixelation is prominent across all areas, reducing fine detail. No text, symbols, or additional props are visible in the frame.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair against a blue background, showing upper torso and smiling expression.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • 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
  • 200709142005122110723235

Mood

  • happy

Named Entities

  • celebrities

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated smiling person blue background
  • dark hair light skin shirtless close-up
  • blue background pixelated upper torso

Preprocessing Notes

  • highly pixelated image with no visible motion or animation frames

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata about collection era and topic coverage but does not alter visual facts

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Visually Supported Entities

  • celebrities

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • dark hair
  • light skin
  • smiling expression
  • blue background
  • upper torso
  • shirtless
  • static image
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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
200709142005122110723235
Archive entry
200709142005122110723235.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:45 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#200709142005122110723235.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709142005122110723235.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016