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Pixelated close-up of a person wearing a black fedora, dark suit jacket, white shirt, and black bow tie against a light background.

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Pixelated close-up of a person wearing a black fedora, dark suit jacket, white shirt, and black bow tie against a light background.

Pixelated close-up of a person wearing a black fedora, dark suit jacket, white shirt, and black bow tie against a light background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • upper torso and head
  • cropped to show head and shoulders

Dense Caption

Pixelated close-up of a person wearing a black fedora with a slightly curved brim, dark suit jacket, white dress shirt, and black bow tie. The person's skin tone is brown, and the background is a light gray. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance with visible pixelation. The person's head is turned slightly to the right, and the right hand is partially visible near the shoulder. The image is cropped to show the upper torso and head.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person wearing a black fedora, dark suit jacket, white shirt, and black bow tie against a light background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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

  • black fedora person
  • dark suit white shirt bow tie
  • pixelated celebrity icon
  • brown skin tone fedora

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Wordwall

  • black fedora
  • dark suit jacket
  • white dress shirt
  • black bow tie
  • brown skin tone
  • light gray background
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • head turned right
  • right hand partially visible

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200809030728001035922862
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ac/ac3ca6b21af6b1aca00facd3db12d9e60230e0e66f1637e756814b785fea7e44.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC
Archive ID
ac3ca6b21af6b1ac
SHA-256
ac3ca6b21af6b1aca00facd3db12d9e60230e0e66f1637e756814b785fea7e44
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 6, 2026 at 12:46 UTC
Run
1269
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001248

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:25 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated close-up of a person wearing a black fedora, dark suit jacket, white shirt, and black bow tie against a light background.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 22:44 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,972 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,089, response 693

Review tags

  • head turned right (action, 0.80)
  • right hand partially visible (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • black bow tie (object, 0.80)
  • black fedora (object, 0.80)
  • dark suit jacket (object, 0.80)
  • light gray background (object, 0.80)
  • white dress shirt (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • head turned right
  • right hand partially visible

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray
  • brown

Composition

  • close-up
  • upper torso and head
  • cropped to show head and shoulders

Dense Caption

Pixelated close-up of a person wearing a black fedora with a slightly curved brim, dark suit jacket, white dress shirt, and black bow tie. The person's skin tone is brown, and the background is a light gray. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance with visible pixelation. The person's head is turned slightly to the right, and the right hand is partially visible near the shoulder. The image is cropped to show the upper torso and head.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person wearing a black fedora, dark suit jacket, white shirt, and black bow tie against a light background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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

  • black fedora person
  • dark suit white shirt bow tie
  • pixelated celebrity icon
  • brown skin tone fedora

Objects

  • black fedora
  • dark suit jacket
  • white dress shirt
  • black bow tie
  • light gray background

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution

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

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  • dark suit jacket
  • white dress shirt
  • black bow tie
  • brown skin tone
  • light gray background
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • head turned right
  • right hand partially visible
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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
200809030728001035922862
Archive entry
200809030728001035922862.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 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#200809030728001035922862.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200809030728001035922862.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016