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Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and sunglasses against a green background.

Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and sunglasses against a green background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2000s to…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered subject
  • blurred background

Dense Caption

The icon shows a pixelated close-up of a person's face. The individual has short, light brown or blonde hair styled upward at the front. They wear black rectangular sunglasses covering their eyes. The skin tone is pale. The background consists of blurred green foliage with hints of white and dark blue pixels. The image uses heavy pixelation typical of low-resolution digital art from early 2000s instant messaging platforms.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and sunglasses against a green 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: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200812060932411947932589

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person sunglasses green background pixelated
  • pixelated face dark hair sunglasses
  • green foliage background person
  • low resolution digital art sunglasses

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original low resolution

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

Visually Supported Entities

  • celebrities

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • person
  • dark hair
  • sunglasses
  • green background
  • light brown hair
  • pale skin
  • blurred foliage

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200812060932411947932589
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:45 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.8 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a8/a853e18821e22816789e0282e2514c40640c95fe4b19fff145df14ba1ad3c948.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:45 UTC
Archive ID
a853e18821e22816
SHA-256
a853e18821e22816789e0282e2514c40640c95fe4b19fff145df14ba1ad3c948
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:47 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.072302

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and sunglasses against a green background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 12:22 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,012 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,093, response 675

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • sunglasses (object, 0.80)
  • digital art (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • green
  • black
  • white
  • brown
  • blue
  • gray

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered subject
  • blurred background

Dense Caption

The icon shows a pixelated close-up of a person's face. The individual has short, light brown or blonde hair styled upward at the front. They wear black rectangular sunglasses covering their eyes. The skin tone is pale. The background consists of blurred green foliage with hints of white and dark blue pixels. The image uses heavy pixelation typical of low-resolution digital art from early 2000s instant messaging platforms.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with dark hair and sunglasses against a green 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: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200812060932411947932589

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person sunglasses green background pixelated
  • pixelated face dark hair sunglasses
  • green foliage background person
  • low resolution digital art sunglasses

Objects

  • sunglasses

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original low resolution

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

Visually Supported Entities

  • celebrities

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • person
  • dark hair
  • sunglasses
  • green background
  • light brown hair
  • pale skin
  • blurred foliage
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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
200812060932411947932589
Archive entry
200812060932411947932589.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:45 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#200812060932411947932589.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200812060932411947932589.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016