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Pixelated close-up of a person with short brown hair, light skin, and a dark suit against a light blue background with blurred dark shapes.

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Pixelated close-up of a person with short brown hair, light skin, and a dark suit against a light blue background with blurred dark shapes.

Pixelated close-up of a person with short brown hair, light skin, and a dark suit against a light blue background with blurred dark shapes. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered subject
  • light blue background

Dense Caption

Pixelated close-up of a person with short brown hair, light skin, and a dark suit. The person has a neutral expression with closed eyes, visible lips, and a small red mark on the nose. The background is light blue with blurred dark shapes. The image has a low-resolution, blocky rendering style with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person with short brown hair, light skin, and a dark suit against a light blue background with blurred dark shapes.

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 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person with short brown hair
  • light blue background
  • red mark on nose
  • pixelated close-up
  • neutral expression
  • dark suit
  • closed eyes
  • blurred dark shapes

Preprocessing Notes

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains multiple era and collection hints but no pixel evidence supports them

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains multiple era and collection hints but no pixel evidence supports them

Wordwall

  • short brown hair
  • light skin
  • dark suit
  • closed eyes
  • red mark on nose
  • light blue background
  • blurred dark shapes
  • pixelated
  • neutral expression
  • low-resolution

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200711302215081773941146
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:01 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/92/92ef2e4b51aeff084facb0c895485f68f1fded1e60de882bccc9f851cd1b6349.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:01 UTC
Archive ID
92ef2e4b51aeff08
SHA-256
92ef2e4b51aeff084facb0c895485f68f1fded1e60de882bccc9f851cd1b6349
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:10 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.077701

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated close-up of a person with short brown hair, light skin, and a dark suit against a light blue background with blurred dark shapes.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 12:44 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,863 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,089, response 659

Review tags

  • beige (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark gray (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • light blue
  • brown
  • dark gray
  • red
  • beige

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered subject
  • light blue background

Dense Caption

Pixelated close-up of a person with short brown hair, light skin, and a dark suit. The person has a neutral expression with closed eyes, visible lips, and a small red mark on the nose. The background is light blue with blurred dark shapes. The image has a low-resolution, blocky rendering style with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person with short brown hair, light skin, and a dark suit against a light blue background with blurred dark shapes.

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 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person with short brown hair
  • light blue background
  • red mark on nose
  • pixelated close-up
  • neutral expression
  • dark suit
  • closed eyes
  • blurred dark shapes

Preprocessing Notes

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains multiple era and collection hints but no pixel evidence supports them

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains multiple era and collection hints but no pixel evidence supports them

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • short brown hair
  • light skin
  • dark suit
  • closed eyes
  • red mark on nose
  • light blue background
  • blurred dark shapes
  • pixelated
  • neutral expression
  • low-resolution
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 21:52 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
Raw JSON
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
200711302215081773941146
Archive entry
200711302215081773941146.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:01 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#200711302215081773941146.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200711302215081773941146.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016