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Pixelated close-up of a person with short dark hair, a beard, and a light-colored shirt against a blue background.

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Pixelated close-up of a person with short dark hair, a beard, and a light-colored shirt against a blue background.

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • cropped to head and shoulders
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Pixelated close-up portrait of a person with short dark hair, a beard, and a light-colored shirt. The background is solid blue. The person's face is slightly turned to the right. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics. The visible skin tone is light. The person's ear is partially visible on the left side of the frame. The shirt appears to be a light brown or beige color. The image is cropped to show the head and upper shoulders.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person with short dark hair, a beard, and a light-colored shirt against a blue background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2005
  • provenance era: 2011
  • provenance source-name: Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs
  • provenance topic-coverage: action
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance topic-coverage: cars
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: dolls
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • observation category (broad): img
  • observation category (broad): icon
  • observation alt-text (broad): 12509
  • observation file-name (broad): 12509

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person blue background
  • bearded man low resolution
  • light shirt dark hair blue background
  • cropped head shoulders pixel art

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • blue background
  • short dark hair
  • beard
  • light-colored shirt
  • low-resolution
  • blocky appearance
  • face turned right
  • ear visible
  • light skin tone

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 11, 2026

Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs

Source title
12509
Category
img / icon
Era
Mid-to-Late-2000s AIM Portal
Observed
July 11, 2026 at 19:50 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.9 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 11, 2026
Relative path
icons/9b/9bd002e96b917d2b8235ec989beb19c83465477dd1fcdaa896df0b9d87191675.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 11, 2026 at 19:50 UTC
Archive ID
9bd002e96b917d2b
SHA-256
9bd002e96b917d2b8235ec989beb19c83465477dd1fcdaa896df0b9d87191675
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 22, 2026 at 08:22 UTC
Run
89
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.076620

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.923380onnx/unsafe0.076620onnx/nsfl0.044489onnx/nsfw0.032132
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated close-up of a person with short dark hair, a beard, and a light-colored shirt against a blue background.

Reviewed
August 24, 2026 at 14:47 UTC
Run
68
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,001 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,025, response 661

Review tags

  • beige (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • dark hair (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • light skin tone (color, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • light brown
  • beige
  • light skin tone
  • dark hair

Composition

  • close-up
  • cropped to head and shoulders
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Pixelated close-up portrait of a person with short dark hair, a beard, and a light-colored shirt. The background is solid blue. The person's face is slightly turned to the right. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics. The visible skin tone is light. The person's ear is partially visible on the left side of the frame. The shirt appears to be a light brown or beige color. The image is cropped to show the head and upper shoulders.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person with short dark hair, a beard, and a light-colored shirt against a blue background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2005
  • provenance era: 2011
  • provenance source-name: Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs
  • provenance topic-coverage: action
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance topic-coverage: cars
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: dolls
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • observation category (broad): img
  • observation category (broad): icon
  • observation alt-text (broad): 12509
  • observation file-name (broad): 12509

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person blue background
  • bearded man low resolution
  • light shirt dark hair blue background
  • cropped head shoulders pixel art

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • blue background
  • short dark hair
  • beard
  • light-colored shirt
  • low-resolution
  • blocky appearance
  • face turned right
  • ear visible
  • light skin tone
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 03:42 UTC
Run
52
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 (1)
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Full source records (1)
Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs (wayback-buddy-icons-info-img-icon-gifs)
Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-to-Late-2000s AIM Portal
Type
Wayback direct native asset enumeration
Category
img / icon
Alt
12509
Observed
July 11, 2026 at 19:50 UTC
Rights
mixed user-submitted and licensed imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
native Buddy-Icons.info AIM icon assets spanning user submissions, fandom, identity, relationships, school, sports, music, movies, and celebrity culture
Original: http://buddy-icons.info/img/icon/12509.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20160524102112id_/http://buddy-icons.info/img/icon/12509.gif