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Pixelated image of a person with light skin tone, dark eyes, and short hair wearing a black top against a solid black background.

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Pixelated image of a person with light skin tone, dark eyes, and short hair wearing a black top against a solid black background.

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered subject
  • close-up crop
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The icon is a static pixelated image showing the upper body of an individual. The figure has light skin tone, visible dark eyes, and short hair. They wear a black garment covering the shoulders and chest area. The background is uniformly solid black. Pixelation creates blocky visual artifacts across all elements including facial features, clothing, and background. No text or additional objects are present in the image.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with light skin tone, dark eyes, and short hair wearing a black top against a solid black background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person black background
  • light skin dark eyes short hair
  • black top solid background pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-quality from original source

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 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

  • light skin tone
  • dark eyes
  • short hair
  • black top
  • solid black background
  • pixelated rendering

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071021160841775416710
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 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/90/90056793eaac76e5f699fe0f11674db4aed55841619d50001b18dfb0e0c7d8b5.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 UTC
Archive ID
90056793eaac76e5
SHA-256
90056793eaac76e5f699fe0f11674db4aed55841619d50001b18dfb0e0c7d8b5
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:53 UTC
Run
1128
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.156899

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image of a person with light skin tone, dark eyes, and short hair wearing a black top against a solid black background.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 11:53 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,774 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,091, response 617

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • pinkish red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • pinkish-red

Composition

  • centered subject
  • close-up crop
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The icon is a static pixelated image showing the upper body of an individual. The figure has light skin tone, visible dark eyes, and short hair. They wear a black garment covering the shoulders and chest area. The background is uniformly solid black. Pixelation creates blocky visual artifacts across all elements including facial features, clothing, and background. No text or additional objects are present in the image.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with light skin tone, dark eyes, and short hair wearing a black top against a solid black background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person black background
  • light skin dark eyes short hair
  • black top solid background pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-quality from original source

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 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

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • light skin tone
  • dark eyes
  • short hair
  • black top
  • solid black background
  • pixelated rendering
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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
20071021160841775416710
Archive entry
20071021160841775416710.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 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#20071021160841775416710.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071021160841775416710.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016