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A pixelated close-up of a person with light brown hair wearing a bright pink top, hand raised near the face against a dark background.

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A pixelated close-up of a person with light brown hair wearing a bright pink top, hand raised near the face against a dark background.

A pixelated close-up of a person with light brown hair wearing a bright pink top, hand raised near the face against a dark background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archi…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • partial view
  • centered subject

Dense Caption

Pixelated static image shows partial view of person from shoulders up. Light brown hair appears slightly tousled; visible ear has small purple earring. Person wears bright pink garment covering upper chest and shoulder area. Hand is positioned near right side of face, fingers extended toward cheek. Background consists of dark, indistinct shapes with hints of blue and green tones. Image exhibits low-resolution pixelation typical of early 2000s digital graphics.

Description

  • A pixelated close-up of a person with light brown hair wearing a bright pink top, hand raised near the face against a dark background.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • celebrities

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • light brown hair bright pink top
  • hand raised near face purple earring
  • pixelated image dark background

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

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • light brown hair
  • bright pink top
  • hand near face
  • small purple earring
  • dark background
  • pixelated image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200710121505281622693056
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:50 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/aa/aad38f29b83d49902d6dfa8e607fa5b72adb23be0901b828d9cb7e264561e009.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:50 UTC
Archive ID
aad38f29b83d4990
SHA-256
aad38f29b83d49902d6dfa8e607fa5b72adb23be0901b828d9cb7e264561e009
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:18 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.276578

OpenAI category scores

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A pixelated close-up of a person with light brown hair wearing a bright pink top, hand raised near the face against a dark background.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 09:27 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,108 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,091, response 658

Review tags

  • hand raised near face (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • bright pink (color, 0.80)
  • dark gray (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • purple earring (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • hand raised near face

Colors

  • light brown
  • bright pink
  • purple
  • dark gray
  • blue
  • green

Composition

  • close-up
  • partial view
  • centered subject

Dense Caption

Pixelated static image shows partial view of person from shoulders up. Light brown hair appears slightly tousled; visible ear has small purple earring. Person wears bright pink garment covering upper chest and shoulder area. Hand is positioned near right side of face, fingers extended toward cheek. Background consists of dark, indistinct shapes with hints of blue and green tones. Image exhibits low-resolution pixelation typical of early 2000s digital graphics.

Description

  • A pixelated close-up of a person with light brown hair wearing a bright pink top, hand raised near the face against a dark background.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • celebrities

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • light brown hair bright pink top
  • hand raised near face purple earring
  • pixelated image dark background

Objects

  • purple earring

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
  • static

Subjects

  • person

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • light brown hair
  • bright pink top
  • hand near face
  • small purple earring
  • dark background
  • pixelated image
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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
200710121505281622693056
Archive entry
200710121505281622693056.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:50 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#200710121505281622693056.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200710121505281622693056.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016