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Black-and-white pixelated image of a person wearing a wide-brimmed hat with a light band, dark clothing, and a blurred background featuring circular light shapes.

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Black-and-white pixelated image of a person wearing a wide-brimmed hat with a light band, dark clothing, and a blurred background featuring circular light shapes.

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered
  • tilted perspective
  • blurred background

Dense Caption

Black-and-white pixelated image of a person wearing a wide-brimmed hat with a light band, dark clothing, and a blurred background featuring circular light shapes. The figure's face is partially visible with indistinct features. The image has a low-resolution, grainy texture with high contrast between light and dark areas. The background includes multiple circular light shapes and a horizontal light band. The overall composition is centered on the figure with a slightly tilted perspective.

Description

Black-and-white pixelated image of a person wearing a wide-brimmed hat with a light band, dark clothing, and a blurred background featuring circular light shapes.

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 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200810111047001284272318

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • black-and-white pixelated person
  • wide-brimmed hat circular light shapes
  • low-resolution grayscale figure
  • centered tilted perspective

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 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

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  • black-and-white
  • pixelated
  • wide-brimmed hat
  • light band
  • dark clothing
  • circular light shapes
  • horizontal light band
  • low-resolution
  • grainy texture
  • high contrast
  • centered composition
  • tilted perspective

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200810111047001284272318
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.1 KB
Motion
Still image
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 15:40 UTC
Archive ID
a4f76c4079c88612
SHA-256
a4f76c4079c88612376db13b860c3b4aa310518c1a15e6686216b2b5109bbb9f
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:20 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.084858

OpenAI category scores

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Black-and-white pixelated image of a person wearing a wide-brimmed hat with a light band, dark clothing, and a blurred background featuring circular light shapes.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 03:42 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,315 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,095, response 835

Review tags

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  • white (color, 0.80)
  • mysterious (mood, 0.80)
  • vintage (mood, 0.80)
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  • horizontal light band (object, 0.80)
  • wide brimmed hat (object, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • centered
  • tilted perspective
  • blurred background

Dense Caption

Black-and-white pixelated image of a person wearing a wide-brimmed hat with a light band, dark clothing, and a blurred background featuring circular light shapes. The figure's face is partially visible with indistinct features. The image has a low-resolution, grainy texture with high contrast between light and dark areas. The background includes multiple circular light shapes and a horizontal light band. The overall composition is centered on the figure with a slightly tilted perspective.

Description

Black-and-white pixelated image of a person wearing a wide-brimmed hat with a light band, dark clothing, and a blurred background featuring circular light shapes.

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 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200810111047001284272318

Mood

  • mysterious
  • vintage

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • black-and-white pixelated person
  • wide-brimmed hat circular light shapes
  • low-resolution grayscale figure
  • centered tilted perspective

Objects

  • wide-brimmed hat
  • circular light shapes
  • horizontal light band

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

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  • pixelated
  • wide-brimmed hat
  • light band
  • dark clothing
  • circular light shapes
  • horizontal light band
  • low-resolution
  • grainy texture
  • high contrast
  • centered composition
  • tilted perspective
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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
200810111047001284272318
Archive entry
200810111047001284272318.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 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#200810111047001284272318.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200810111047001284272318.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016