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Pixelated static image of a person wearing a white shirt with repeated 'TAL' text and a star symbol, standing against a blurred background.

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Pixelated static image of a person wearing a white shirt with repeated 'TAL' text and a star symbol, standing against a blurred background.

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered subject
  • chest-up view
  • blurred background

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image shows a person from the chest up, wearing a white short-sleeve shirt with 'TAL' repeated vertically in dark gray block letters and a small star symbol between the two 'TAL' instances. The person has brown hair and dark pants. Background is blurred with indistinct light and dark tones. Image quality is low-resolution with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated static image of a person wearing a white shirt with repeated 'TAL' text and a star symbol, standing against a blurred 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: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • TAL shirt star
  • person white shirt star
  • TAL text pixelated
  • star symbol shirt

Objects

  • star symbol

Visible Text

  • TAL

Wordwall

  • white shirt
  • TAL text
  • star symbol
  • brown hair
  • dark pants
  • blurred background
  • pixelated
  • static image
  • vertical text
  • block letters

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200903231409151952992762
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:55 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/9c/9cda8291c65e27fdb96cbd725ed631f2bfa4f959142863f6f21c8e626779ab80.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:55 UTC
Archive ID
9cda8291c65e27fd
SHA-256
9cda8291c65e27fdb96cbd725ed631f2bfa4f959142863f6f21c8e626779ab80
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
0.078793

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated static image of a person wearing a white shirt with repeated 'TAL' text and a star symbol, standing against a blurred background.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 03:54 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,604 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,092, response 570

Review tags

  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • dark gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • star symbol (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • white
  • dark gray
  • brown
  • dark blue
  • light gray
  • green
  • red

Composition

  • centered subject
  • chest-up view
  • blurred background

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image shows a person from the chest up, wearing a white short-sleeve shirt with 'TAL' repeated vertically in dark gray block letters and a small star symbol between the two 'TAL' instances. The person has brown hair and dark pants. Background is blurred with indistinct light and dark tones. Image quality is low-resolution with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated static image of a person wearing a white shirt with repeated 'TAL' text and a star symbol, standing against a blurred 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: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • TAL shirt star
  • person white shirt star
  • TAL text pixelated
  • star symbol shirt

Objects

  • star symbol

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • static

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • TAL

Wordwall

  • white shirt
  • TAL text
  • star symbol
  • brown hair
  • dark pants
  • blurred background
  • pixelated
  • static image
  • vertical text
  • block letters
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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
200903231409151952992762
Archive entry
200903231409151952992762.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:55 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#200903231409151952992762.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200903231409151952992762.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016