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A pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair, light skin, and a yellow garment, holding a hand near their face against a dark background.

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A pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair, light skin, and a yellow garment, holding a hand near their face against a dark background.

A pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair, light skin, and a yellow garment, holding a hand near their face against a dark background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered subject
  • dark background

Dense Caption

The image is a static, pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair and light skin. The person has a neutral expression with eyes looking slightly upward. They are wearing a yellow garment visible on the left and right edges of the frame. A hand is positioned near the right side of the face, with fingers extended. The background is dark with a small blue pixel cluster in the upper right. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • A pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair, light skin, and a yellow garment, holding a hand near their face against a dark 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 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
  • 20090509221137888486203

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person dark hair yellow garment
  • hand near face dark background
  • neutral expression blocky appearance
  • blue pixel cluster dark hair

Objects

  • hand

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from lower 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

  • pixelated
  • dark hair
  • light skin
  • yellow garment
  • hand near face
  • dark background
  • blue pixel cluster
  • neutral expression
  • blocky appearance
  • close-up

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090509221137888486203
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a4/a4d69c111975f4800126ed17f976d3b2814b90e127f0e337771231f22ac0aab6.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 UTC
Archive ID
a4d69c111975f480
SHA-256
a4d69c111975f4800126ed17f976d3b2814b90e127f0e337771231f22ac0aab6
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:20 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.084860

OpenAI category scores

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A pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair, light skin, and a yellow garment, holding a hand near their face against a dark background.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 09:22 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,691 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,093, response 812

Review tags

  • holding hand near face (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • hand (object, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding hand near face

Colors

  • dark blue
  • yellow
  • light brown
  • blue
  • pink

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered subject
  • dark background

Dense Caption

The image is a static, pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair and light skin. The person has a neutral expression with eyes looking slightly upward. They are wearing a yellow garment visible on the left and right edges of the frame. A hand is positioned near the right side of the face, with fingers extended. The background is dark with a small blue pixel cluster in the upper right. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • A pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair, light skin, and a yellow garment, holding a hand near their face against a dark 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 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
  • 20090509221137888486203

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person dark hair yellow garment
  • hand near face dark background
  • neutral expression blocky appearance
  • blue pixel cluster dark hair

Objects

  • hand

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from lower resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • 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
  • low-resolution
  • blocky

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • dark hair
  • light skin
  • yellow garment
  • hand near face
  • dark background
  • blue pixel cluster
  • neutral expression
  • blocky appearance
  • close-up
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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
20090509221137888486203
Archive entry
20090509221137888486203.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 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#20090509221137888486203.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090509221137888486203.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016