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Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair and brown skin, profile view facing left, against a light background with blue sky.

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Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair and brown skin, profile view facing left, against a light background with blue sky.

Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair and brown skin, profile view facing left, against a light background with blue sky. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fr…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • profile view
  • left-facing
  • cropped to shoulders

Dense Caption

Pixelated static image showing a person's profile from the shoulders up, facing left. The person has dark hair, brown skin tone, and visible ear. Background consists of light-colored area on the left transitioning to blue sky on the top. Image has low resolution with visible pixelation. No text or additional objects are present. The person's expression appears neutral. The image is cropped to show only the head and upper shoulders.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair and brown skin, profile view facing left, against a light background with blue sky.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080727140103814139689

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person profile dark hair brown skin
  • pixelated profile view blue sky
  • low resolution person neutral expression
  • dark hair brown skin light background

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled

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 topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Wordwall

  • profile view
  • dark hair
  • brown skin
  • light background
  • blue sky
  • pixelated
  • low resolution
  • neutral expression
  • shoulders up
  • no text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080727140103814139689
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a9/a9d8af7c30c8af465813642972f53de9174f88cc130093370f321afbbd545149.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 UTC
Archive ID
a9d8af7c30c8af46
SHA-256
a9d8af7c30c8af465813642972f53de9174f88cc130093370f321afbbd545149
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:23 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.131324

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair and brown skin, profile view facing left, against a light background with blue sky.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 14:27 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,987 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,091, response 797

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark (color, 0.80)
  • light (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • brown
  • dark
  • light
  • blue

Composition

  • profile view
  • left-facing
  • cropped to shoulders

Dense Caption

Pixelated static image showing a person's profile from the shoulders up, facing left. The person has dark hair, brown skin tone, and visible ear. Background consists of light-colored area on the left transitioning to blue sky on the top. Image has low resolution with visible pixelation. No text or additional objects are present. The person's expression appears neutral. The image is cropped to show only the head and upper shoulders.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair and brown skin, profile view facing left, against a light background with blue sky.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080727140103814139689

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person profile dark hair brown skin
  • pixelated profile view blue sky
  • low resolution person neutral expression
  • dark hair brown skin light background

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled

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 topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • low resolution

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • profile view
  • dark hair
  • brown skin
  • light background
  • blue sky
  • pixelated
  • low resolution
  • neutral expression
  • shoulders up
  • no text
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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
20080727140103814139689
Archive entry
20080727140103814139689.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 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#20080727140103814139689.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080727140103814139689.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016