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Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair wearing a dark shirt featuring a blue and white graphic design, set against a warm-toned background.

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Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair wearing a dark shirt featuring a blue and white graphic design, set against a warm-toned background.

Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair wearing a dark shirt featuring a blue and white graphic design, set against a warm-toned background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon fro…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered subject
  • close-up crop
  • warm-toned background

Dense Caption

The icon shows a pixelated figure with light brown hair styled in a voluminous manner. The individual wears a dark-colored short-sleeve shirt with a rectangular blue-and-white graphic on the chest area; this graphic contains indistinct shapes and patterns. The background consists of warm, earthy tones including shades of orange and brown. The image is highly pixelated, indicating low resolution typical of early digital graphics.

Description

Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair wearing a dark shirt featuring a blue and white graphic design, set against a warm-toned background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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
  • 20070911143447136483457

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person with light brown hair dark shirt
  • pixelated figure blue white graphic
  • warm background pixel art
  • voluminous hair low resolution

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: 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 hair
  • dark shirt
  • blue white graphic
  • warm background
  • pixelated
  • voluminous hair

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070911143447136483457
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:44 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/9c/9c6c2a0f00bb27fdedf1137b6d97477e19a6503d55a5c4c6153219a97aa5a7e9.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:44 UTC
Archive ID
9c6c2a0f00bb27fd
SHA-256
9c6c2a0f00bb27fdedf1137b6d97477e19a6503d55a5c4c6153219a97aa5a7e9
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
July 28, 2026 at 01:23 UTC
Run
1201
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000483

OpenAI category scores

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EvidenceStrengthInputenrichment/visual/violence0.500000image
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:44 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.095169

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair wearing a dark shirt featuring a blue and white graphic design, set against a warm-toned background.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 01:15 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,581 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,094, response 712

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution digital graphic (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • brown
  • orange
  • black
  • blue
  • white

Composition

  • centered subject
  • close-up crop
  • warm-toned background

Dense Caption

The icon shows a pixelated figure with light brown hair styled in a voluminous manner. The individual wears a dark-colored short-sleeve shirt with a rectangular blue-and-white graphic on the chest area; this graphic contains indistinct shapes and patterns. The background consists of warm, earthy tones including shades of orange and brown. The image is highly pixelated, indicating low resolution typical of early digital graphics.

Description

Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair wearing a dark shirt featuring a blue and white graphic design, set against a warm-toned background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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
  • 20070911143447136483457

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person with light brown hair dark shirt
  • pixelated figure blue white graphic
  • warm background pixel art
  • voluminous hair low resolution

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: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution digital graphic

Subjects

  • person

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • light brown hair
  • dark shirt
  • blue white graphic
  • warm background
  • pixelated
  • voluminous hair
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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
20070911143447136483457
Archive entry
20070911143447136483457.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:44 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#20070911143447136483457.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070911143447136483457.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016