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Pixelated image of a person with brown hair wearing dark clothing, partially obscured by white text reading "Alec" on the right side.

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Pixelated image of a person with brown hair wearing dark clothing, partially obscured by white text reading "Alec" on the right side.

Pixelated image of a person with brown hair wearing dark clothing, partially obscured by white text reading "Alec" on the right side. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archiv…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered face
  • text top-right corner
  • solid black background

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image shows a person's face and upper body; visible features include light skin tone, brown curly hair extending past shoulders, closed mouth with slight smile expression. White blocky text "Alec" appears in top-right corner over dark background. Background is solid black except for faint grayish shapes on left side. Image has low-resolution pixelation typical of early 2000s digital art. No visible clothing details beyond dark-colored shoulder area.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with brown hair wearing dark clothing, partially obscured by white text reading "Alec" on the right side.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Alec Baldwin

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • celebrities

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Named Entities

  • Alec

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown hair person Alec text
  • pixelated face white text black background
  • light skin tone closed mouth smile
  • Alec brown hair pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original dimensions

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

Visible Text

  • Alec

Visually Supported Entities

  • Alec

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • light skin tone
  • closed mouth smile
  • white text "Alec"
  • black background
  • pixelated rendering
  • dark clothing
  • faint gray shapes left

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071206173030268191063
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:02 UTC

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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/a5/a5976ce50bf4eeee0dbcf07816b77f3ac98da0b688e917aef1683835e7dae1c1.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:02 UTC
Archive ID
a5976ce50bf4eeee
SHA-256
a5976ce50bf4eeee0dbcf07816b77f3ac98da0b688e917aef1683835e7dae1c1
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:21 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.380749

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image of a person with brown hair wearing dark clothing, partially obscured by white text reading "Alec" on the right side.

Reviewed
July 30, 2026 at 23:45 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,028 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,085, response 665

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light skin tone (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution digital art (style, 0.80)
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  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • brown
  • light skin tone
  • white
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • centered face
  • text top-right corner
  • solid black background

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image shows a person's face and upper body; visible features include light skin tone, brown curly hair extending past shoulders, closed mouth with slight smile expression. White blocky text "Alec" appears in top-right corner over dark background. Background is solid black except for faint grayish shapes on left side. Image has low-resolution pixelation typical of early 2000s digital art. No visible clothing details beyond dark-colored shoulder area.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with brown hair wearing dark clothing, partially obscured by white text reading "Alec" on the right side.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Alec Baldwin

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • celebrities

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Named Entities

  • Alec

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown hair person Alec text
  • pixelated face white text black background
  • light skin tone closed mouth smile
  • Alec brown hair pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original dimensions

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

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution digital art

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • Alec

Visually Supported Entities

  • Alec

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • light skin tone
  • closed mouth smile
  • white text "Alec"
  • black background
  • pixelated rendering
  • dark clothing
  • faint gray shapes left
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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
20071206173030268191063
Archive entry
20071206173030268191063.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:02 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#20071206173030268191063.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071206173030268191063.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016