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Pixelated close-up of a person with light brown skin tone, dark eyes, and short hair wearing blue clothing against black background.

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Pixelated close-up of a person with light brown skin tone, dark eyes, and short hair wearing blue clothing against black background.

Pixelated close-up of a person with light brown skin tone, dark eyes, and short hair wearing blue clothing against black background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered subject
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The image is a pixelated static portrait showing the upper body of an individual. The subject has light brown skin tone, visible facial features including eyebrows, eyes with white highlights, nose, lips, and chin. Short hair appears on the left side of the head. The person wears blue clothing with dark accents. Background is solid black. Pixelation creates a blocky appearance across all elements.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person with light brown skin tone, dark eyes, and short hair wearing blue clothing against black background.

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

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person blue clothing
  • light brown skin eye highlights
  • black background pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • upscaling detected in 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 brown skin
  • dark eyes
  • blue clothing
  • black background
  • pixelated portrait
  • short hair
  • white eye highlights

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080413114852528298276
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:23 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.9 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/98/98d5594a7162dac86733cc23fd4a305cbe63d26649864924eff0ecd1f49dfcfc.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:23 UTC
Archive ID
98d5594a7162dac8
SHA-256
98d5594a7162dac86733cc23fd4a305cbe63d26649864924eff0ecd1f49dfcfc
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 6, 2026 at 06:06 UTC
Run
1269
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000034

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:13 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.272624

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated close-up of a person with light brown skin tone, dark eyes, and short hair wearing blue clothing against black background.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 03:23 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
13,695 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,087, response 568

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • brown
  • blue
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered subject
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The image is a pixelated static portrait showing the upper body of an individual. The subject has light brown skin tone, visible facial features including eyebrows, eyes with white highlights, nose, lips, and chin. Short hair appears on the left side of the head. The person wears blue clothing with dark accents. Background is solid black. Pixelation creates a blocky appearance across all elements.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person with light brown skin tone, dark eyes, and short hair wearing blue clothing against black background.

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

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person blue clothing
  • light brown skin eye highlights
  • black background pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • upscaling detected in 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

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • light brown skin
  • dark eyes
  • blue clothing
  • black background
  • pixelated portrait
  • short hair
  • white eye highlights
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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
20080413114852528298276
Archive entry
20080413114852528298276.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:23 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#20080413114852528298276.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080413114852528298276.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016