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Four distinct pixelated images of a young man with dark curly hair in various poses and clothing, arranged in a

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • side-by-side
  • white background
  • blue background
  • light background

Dense Caption

Top-left: young man with dark curly hair, black jacket over gray shirt, neutral expression, light background. Top-right: same man with long dark hair, blue shirt, smiling, blue background. Bottom-left: close-up of man with dark hair, black jacket, teal shirt, smiling, hand near face. Bottom-right: three identical figures of the man in black shirts, side-by-side, white background. All images are pixelated with visible compression artifacts.

Description

  • Four distinct pixelated images of a young man with dark curly hair in various poses and clothing, arranged in a

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: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080830095004978294798

Metadata Supported By Image

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • young man dark curly hair black jacket
  • pixelated smiling
  • three identical figures side-by-side
  • blue shirt long dark hair
  • teal shirt hand near face
  • gray shirt neutral expression
  • compression artifacts white background
  • blue background smiling

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation detected; images appear static
  • quarantined description: Four distinct pixelated images of a young man with dark curly hair in various poses and clothing, arranged in a 2x2 grid.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated 2x2 grid smiling

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

Wordwall

  • dark curly hair
  • black jacket
  • gray shirt
  • blue shirt
  • teal shirt
  • smiling
  • neutral expression
  • pixelated
  • compression artifacts
  • three identical figures
  • white background
  • blue background
  • light background
  • hand near face
  • long dark hair
  • close-up
  • side-by-side

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080830095004978294798
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
7.7 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 UTC
Archive ID
a161bf3bb79f1b68
SHA-256
a161bf3bb79f1b685a03e87a646965f77cf85f36b2a5be3473f3c00a02425439
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:18 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.112922

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Four distinct pixelated images of a young man with dark curly hair in various poses and clothing, arranged in a

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 22:12 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,539 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 912

Review tags

  • hand near face (action, 0.80)
  • neutral expression (action, 0.80)
  • side by side (action, 0.80)
  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • black jacket (object, 0.80)
  • blue shirt (object, 0.80)
  • gray shirt (object, 0.80)
  • teal shirt (object, 0.80)
  • compression artifacts (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • young man (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling
  • neutral expression
  • hand near face
  • side-by-side

Colors

  • black
  • gray
  • blue
  • teal
  • white
  • light background

Composition

  • close-up
  • side-by-side
  • white background
  • blue background
  • light background

Dense Caption

Top-left: young man with dark curly hair, black jacket over gray shirt, neutral expression, light background. Top-right: same man with long dark hair, blue shirt, smiling, blue background. Bottom-left: close-up of man with dark hair, black jacket, teal shirt, smiling, hand near face. Bottom-right: three identical figures of the man in black shirts, side-by-side, white background. All images are pixelated with visible compression artifacts.

Description

  • Four distinct pixelated images of a young man with dark curly hair in various poses and clothing, arranged in a

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: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080830095004978294798

Metadata Supported By Image

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

Mood

  • neutral
  • happy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • young man dark curly hair black jacket
  • pixelated smiling
  • three identical figures side-by-side
  • blue shirt long dark hair
  • teal shirt hand near face
  • gray shirt neutral expression
  • compression artifacts white background
  • blue background smiling

Objects

  • black jacket
  • gray shirt
  • blue shirt
  • teal shirt

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation detected; images appear static
  • quarantined description: Four distinct pixelated images of a young man with dark curly hair in various poses and clothing, arranged in a 2x2 grid.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated 2x2 grid smiling

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • compression artifacts

Subjects

  • young man

Wordwall

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  • black jacket
  • gray shirt
  • blue shirt
  • teal shirt
  • smiling
  • neutral expression
  • pixelated
  • compression artifacts
  • three identical figures
  • white background
  • blue background
  • light background
  • hand near face
  • long dark hair
  • close-up
  • side-by-side
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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
20080830095004978294798
Archive entry
20080830095004978294798.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 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#20080830095004978294798.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080830095004978294798.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016