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A pixelated image shows a person with short dark hair wearing a white shirt, standing against an outdoor background with blurred structures and sky.

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A pixelated image shows a person with short dark hair wearing a white shirt, standing against an outdoor background with blurred structures and sky.

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered subject
  • cropped at shoulders

Dense Caption

The image is highly pixelated. A person's head and upper torso are visible; the individual has short dark hair and light skin tone. The person wears a white garment on their shoulders. Background elements include indistinct shapes suggesting buildings or vehicles under a pale blue sky with faint cloud-like patterns. Pixelation obscures fine details of facial features, clothing texture, and background objects.

Description

A pixelated image shows a person with short dark hair wearing a white shirt, standing against an outdoor background with blurred structures and sky.

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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • celebrities

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person white shirt outdoor
  • dark hair light skin pale blue sky

Preprocessing Notes

  • highly pixelated image with visible compression artifacts

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • short dark hair
  • light skin tone
  • white shirt
  • outdoor setting
  • blurred structures
  • pale blue sky

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070920130016180566141
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:46 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/96/96d097f55e57a934a82325a66cbff5b1d5317294c535dfb7a0b09eff56c100a0.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:46 UTC
Archive ID
96d097f55e57a934
SHA-256
96d097f55e57a934a82325a66cbff5b1d5317294c535dfb7a0b09eff56c100a0
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:12 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.077227

OpenAI category scores

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A pixelated image shows a person with short dark hair wearing a white shirt, standing against an outdoor background with blurred structures and sky.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 03:13 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,928 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,093, response 600

Review tags

  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • pale blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • dark blue
  • light brown
  • white
  • pale blue
  • gray

Composition

  • centered subject
  • cropped at shoulders

Dense Caption

The image is highly pixelated. A person's head and upper torso are visible; the individual has short dark hair and light skin tone. The person wears a white garment on their shoulders. Background elements include indistinct shapes suggesting buildings or vehicles under a pale blue sky with faint cloud-like patterns. Pixelation obscures fine details of facial features, clothing texture, and background objects.

Description

A pixelated image shows a person with short dark hair wearing a white shirt, standing against an outdoor background with blurred structures and sky.

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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • celebrities

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person white shirt outdoor
  • dark hair light skin pale blue sky

Preprocessing Notes

  • highly pixelated image with visible compression artifacts

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • short dark hair
  • light skin tone
  • white shirt
  • outdoor setting
  • blurred structures
  • pale blue sky
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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
20070920130016180566141
Archive entry
20070920130016180566141.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:46 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#20070920130016180566141.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070920130016180566141.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016