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Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with short dark hair, light skin tone, and visible neck and shoulder area against gray background.

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Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with short dark hair, light skin tone, and visible neck and shoulder area against gray background.

Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with short dark hair, light skin tone, and visible neck and shoulder area against gray background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Intern…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • head and upper torso centered
  • medium gray background
  • no visible clothing or accessories

Dense Caption

Monochrome 8-bit style icon showing upper torso and head. Subject has short dark hair styled upward at front. Facial features include closed eyes, nose, mouth, and chin. Neck is prominent with smooth shading. Shoulders are broad with subtle shadowing on right side (viewer's left). Background is solid medium gray. Pixelation creates blocky texture across entire image. No visible clothing or accessories.

Description

Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with short dark hair, light skin tone, and visible neck and shoulder area against gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation file-name (gallery): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • observation title (gallery): 200803172115441116501721
  • observation file-name (gallery): 200803172115441116501721

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person monochrome
  • 8-bit style head upper torso
  • closed eyes short dark hair gray background
  • smooth neck shading broad shoulders

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original dimensions

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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 topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • 8-bit style
  • monochrome
  • pixelated
  • short dark hair
  • closed eyes
  • medium gray background
  • upper torso
  • smooth neck shading
  • broad shoulders

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200803172115441116501721
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:19 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.9 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/93/93609ff8b340a104176988f2939c0c359b017ae1e9e097bd34a76f1a103df6d9.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:19 UTC
Archive ID
93609ff8b340a104
SHA-256
93609ff8b340a104176988f2939c0c359b017ae1e9e097bd34a76f1a103df6d9
Content-safety assessments (1)
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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
0.097036

OpenAI category scores

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Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with short dark hair, light skin tone, and visible neck and shoulder area against gray background.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 07:58 UTC
Run
57
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,436 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,096, response 759

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • monochrome (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • head and upper torso centered
  • medium gray background
  • no visible clothing or accessories

Dense Caption

Monochrome 8-bit style icon showing upper torso and head. Subject has short dark hair styled upward at front. Facial features include closed eyes, nose, mouth, and chin. Neck is prominent with smooth shading. Shoulders are broad with subtle shadowing on right side (viewer's left). Background is solid medium gray. Pixelation creates blocky texture across entire image. No visible clothing or accessories.

Description

Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with short dark hair, light skin tone, and visible neck and shoulder area against gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation file-name (gallery): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • observation title (gallery): 200803172115441116501721
  • observation file-name (gallery): 200803172115441116501721

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person monochrome
  • 8-bit style head upper torso
  • closed eyes short dark hair gray background
  • smooth neck shading broad shoulders

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original dimensions

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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 topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixel art
  • monochrome
  • 8-bit

Subjects

  • person

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • 8-bit style
  • monochrome
  • pixelated
  • short dark hair
  • closed eyes
  • medium gray background
  • upper torso
  • smooth neck shading
  • broad shoulders
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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
200803172115441116501721
Archive entry
200803172115441116501721.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:19 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#200803172115441116501721.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200803172115441116501721.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016