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Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with tousled hair, wearing dark clothing and positioned slightly off-center against a light background.

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Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with tousled hair, wearing dark clothing and positioned slightly off-center against a light background.

Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with tousled hair, wearing dark clothing and positioned slightly off-center against a light background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from I…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central figure
  • off-center positioning
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Monochrome 16x16 pixel icon rendered in grayscale. Central figure has medium-length tousled hair with darker shading on top and lighter tones below. Facial features include visible eyes, nose, mouth, and ear; expression appears neutral to slightly serious. Figure wears dark clothing with a high collar or shoulder detail. Background is solid light gray with no additional elements. Pixelation creates blocky texture typical of early digital icons. No text or symbols are present in the image.

Description

Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with tousled hair, wearing dark clothing and positioned slightly off-center against a light 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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200710231532551148527519

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person monochrome pixel art
  • tousled hair grayscale icon
  • dark clothing light background pixel
  • neutral expression low-resolution icon

Wordwall

  • 16x16 pixel
  • monochrome
  • tousled hair
  • dark clothing
  • light background
  • neutral expression
  • grayscale rendering

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200710231532551148527519
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.6 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a7/a7a783242185ce7a76a494adcfab91b6379b3439a59580409d75ea2a60457e67.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 UTC
Archive ID
a7a783242185ce7a
SHA-256
a7a783242185ce7a76a494adcfab91b6379b3439a59580409d75ea2a60457e67
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:22 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.080130

OpenAI category scores

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Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with tousled hair, wearing dark clothing and positioned slightly off-center against a light background.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 12:16 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,788 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,094, response 639

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • monochrome (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • central figure
  • off-center positioning
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Monochrome 16x16 pixel icon rendered in grayscale. Central figure has medium-length tousled hair with darker shading on top and lighter tones below. Facial features include visible eyes, nose, mouth, and ear; expression appears neutral to slightly serious. Figure wears dark clothing with a high collar or shoulder detail. Background is solid light gray with no additional elements. Pixelation creates blocky texture typical of early digital icons. No text or symbols are present in the image.

Description

Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with tousled hair, wearing dark clothing and positioned slightly off-center against a light 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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200710231532551148527519

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person monochrome pixel art
  • tousled hair grayscale icon
  • dark clothing light background pixel
  • neutral expression low-resolution icon

Style

  • pixel art
  • monochrome
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • 16x16 pixel
  • monochrome
  • tousled hair
  • dark clothing
  • light background
  • neutral expression
  • grayscale rendering
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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
200710231532551148527519
Archive entry
200710231532551148527519.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 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#200710231532551148527519.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200710231532551148527519.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016