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Pixelated static image of a person with short dark hair and light skin, wearing a pink garment against a dark background.

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Pixelated static image of a person with short dark hair and light skin, wearing a pink garment against a dark background.

Pixelated static image of a person with short dark hair and light skin, wearing a pink garment against a dark background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcon…

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Source terms

Composition

  • face occupies central area
  • text bar at bottom

Dense Caption

Static pixelated icon shows partial face of person with short dark hair; visible features include eye area, nose bridge, mouth, and neck. Skin tone is light beige. Person wears pink fabric around neck or shoulder. Background is solid dark gray/black. Lower portion contains black rectangular bar with white blocky text reading "ALEX" in uppercase letters. Image has low resolution typical of early 2000s digital art.

Description

  • Pixelated static image of a person with short dark hair and light skin, wearing a pink garment against a dark background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person pink garment dark background
  • pixelated face text ALEX
  • static icon short hair light skin
  • blocky text ALEX black rectangle

Visible Text

  • ALEX

Visually Supported Entities

  • ALEX

Wordwall

  • short dark hair
  • light skin tone
  • pink garment
  • dark background
  • black rectangle
  • white text
  • pixelated image
  • static icon
  • face partial view
  • text "ALEX"

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200803201827131484681315
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
48×48 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/99/99157be03baae1f4e2666d004d66868cb8080a1617011d42809111950d64677b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:19 UTC
Archive ID
99157be03baae1f4
SHA-256
99157be03baae1f4e2666d004d66868cb8080a1617011d42809111950d64677b
Content-safety assessments (1)
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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
0.091364

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated static image of a person with short dark hair and light skin, wearing a pink garment against a dark background.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 08:50 UTC
Run
57
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,702 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,096, response 572

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • dark gray (color, 0.80)
  • light beige (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • pink
  • dark gray
  • black
  • light beige

Composition

  • face occupies central area
  • text bar at bottom

Dense Caption

Static pixelated icon shows partial face of person with short dark hair; visible features include eye area, nose bridge, mouth, and neck. Skin tone is light beige. Person wears pink fabric around neck or shoulder. Background is solid dark gray/black. Lower portion contains black rectangular bar with white blocky text reading "ALEX" in uppercase letters. Image has low resolution typical of early 2000s digital art.

Description

  • Pixelated static image of a person with short dark hair and light skin, wearing a pink garment against a dark background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person pink garment dark background
  • pixelated face text ALEX
  • static icon short hair light skin
  • blocky text ALEX black rectangle

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky text

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • ALEX

Visually Supported Entities

  • ALEX

Wordwall

  • short dark hair
  • light skin tone
  • pink garment
  • dark background
  • black rectangle
  • white text
  • pixelated image
  • static icon
  • face partial view
  • text "ALEX"
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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
200803201827131484681315
Archive entry
200803201827131484681315.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#200803201827131484681315.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200803201827131484681315.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016