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Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair wearing a green and yellow patterned shirt and dark pants, holding a black object near their face.

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Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair wearing a green and yellow patterned shirt and dark pants, holding a black object near their face.

Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair wearing a green and yellow patterned shirt and dark pants, holding a black object near their face. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • chest-up view
  • person centered
  • background split

Dense Caption

The image is a low-resolution, pixelated static icon. A person with light brown hair is visible from the chest up. They wear a green and yellow patterned shirt with dark brown or black accents and dark pants. The person holds a black object near their face with their right hand. The background is a light peach color on the right and white on the left. The image has a blocky, pixelated rendering style with visible compression artifacts.

Description

Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair wearing a green and yellow patterned shirt and dark pants, holding a black object near their face.

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: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20090802112313356214693

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person holding black object
  • green yellow patterned shirt
  • light brown hair
  • peach and white background
  • pixelated static icon
  • chest-up view
  • blocky rendering
  • compression artifacts

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Wordwall

  • light brown hair
  • green and yellow patterned shirt
  • dark pants
  • black object
  • peach background
  • white background
  • pixelated
  • blocky rendering
  • compression artifacts

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090802112313356214693
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:01 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/9c/9c38a65dd51b6534c7b572bbdb138fcf1a41087165f234b5b56114d0c19c26d0.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:01 UTC
Archive ID
9c38a65dd51b6534
SHA-256
9c38a65dd51b6534c7b572bbdb138fcf1a41087165f234b5b56114d0c19c26d0
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:16 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.108120

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair wearing a green and yellow patterned shirt and dark pants, holding a black object near their face.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 15:43 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,076 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,094, response 818

Review tags

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  • black (color, 0.80)
  • dark brown (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • peach (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • black object (object, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding

Colors

  • light brown
  • green
  • yellow
  • dark brown
  • black
  • peach
  • white

Composition

  • chest-up view
  • person centered
  • background split

Dense Caption

The image is a low-resolution, pixelated static icon. A person with light brown hair is visible from the chest up. They wear a green and yellow patterned shirt with dark brown or black accents and dark pants. The person holds a black object near their face with their right hand. The background is a light peach color on the right and white on the left. The image has a blocky, pixelated rendering style with visible compression artifacts.

Description

Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair wearing a green and yellow patterned shirt and dark pants, holding a black object near their face.

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: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20090802112313356214693

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person holding black object
  • green yellow patterned shirt
  • light brown hair
  • peach and white background
  • pixelated static icon
  • chest-up view
  • blocky rendering
  • compression artifacts

Objects

  • black object

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • light brown hair
  • green and yellow patterned shirt
  • dark pants
  • black object
  • peach background
  • white background
  • pixelated
  • blocky rendering
  • compression artifacts
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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
20090802112313356214693
Archive entry
20090802112313356214693.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:01 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#20090802112313356214693.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090802112313356214693.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016