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A pixelated portrait of a person with short dark hair wearing a black top, set against a gradient background with a blue signature-like mark on the right.

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A pixelated portrait of a person with short dark hair wearing a black top, set against a gradient background with a blue signature-like mark on the right.

A pixelated portrait of a person with short dark hair wearing a black top, set against a gradient background with a blue signature-like mark on the right. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • partial face view
  • centered subject
  • gradient background

Dense Caption

The image is a static, pixelated portrait of a person with short dark hair and light skin tone, wearing a black top. The background features a gradient transitioning from dark on the left to light on the right. A blue, stylized signature-like mark appears on the right side of the background. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics. The person's face is partially visible, showing the right side of the head and neck. The lighting suggests a single light source from the left, casting subtle shadows on the right side of the face. The overall color palette includes shades of brown, black, and blue.

Description

A pixelated portrait of a person with short dark hair wearing a black top, set against a gradient background with a blue signature-like mark on the right.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: action
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance topic-coverage: cars
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: dolls
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2005
  • provenance era: 2011
  • provenance source-name: Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated portrait person
  • blue signature mark
  • gradient background
  • low-resolution
  • black top
  • short dark hair
  • light skin tone
  • partial face view

Preprocessing Notes

  • low-resolution
  • pixelated

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2005
  • provenance era: 2011
  • provenance source-name: Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs
  • provenance topic-coverage: action
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: cars
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: dolls
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Wordwall

  • pixelated portrait
  • short dark hair
  • light skin tone
  • black top
  • gradient background
  • blue signature mark
  • low-resolution
  • single light source
  • partial face view
  • blocky appearance

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Added to archive
July 11, 2026

Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs

Source title
2929
Category
img / icon
Era
Mid-to-Late-2000s AIM Portal
Observed
July 11, 2026 at 22:26 UTC

Original record Source download

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 11, 2026
Relative path
icons/af/af7280b058c5e420224eb537b7932a810632990af1c7eec9d3174d6e474687b8.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 11, 2026 at 22:26 UTC
Archive ID
af7280b058c5e420
SHA-256
af7280b058c5e420224eb537b7932a810632990af1c7eec9d3174d6e474687b8
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:49 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.086143

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.913857onnx/unsafe0.086143onnx/nsfw0.048020onnx/nsfl0.038122
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A pixelated portrait of a person with short dark hair wearing a black top, set against a gradient background with a blue signature-like mark on the right.

Reviewed
August 24, 2026 at 17:34 UTC
Run
68
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,325 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,025, response 752

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • gradient background (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • brown
  • black
  • blue
  • light gray

Composition

  • partial face view
  • centered subject
  • gradient background

Dense Caption

The image is a static, pixelated portrait of a person with short dark hair and light skin tone, wearing a black top. The background features a gradient transitioning from dark on the left to light on the right. A blue, stylized signature-like mark appears on the right side of the background. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics. The person's face is partially visible, showing the right side of the head and neck. The lighting suggests a single light source from the left, casting subtle shadows on the right side of the face. The overall color palette includes shades of brown, black, and blue.

Description

A pixelated portrait of a person with short dark hair wearing a black top, set against a gradient background with a blue signature-like mark on the right.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: action
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance topic-coverage: cars
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: dolls
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2005
  • provenance era: 2011
  • provenance source-name: Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated portrait person
  • blue signature mark
  • gradient background
  • low-resolution
  • black top
  • short dark hair
  • light skin tone
  • partial face view

Preprocessing Notes

  • low-resolution
  • pixelated

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2005
  • provenance era: 2011
  • provenance source-name: Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs
  • provenance topic-coverage: action
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: cars
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: dolls
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • gradient background

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • pixelated portrait
  • short dark hair
  • light skin tone
  • black top
  • gradient background
  • blue signature mark
  • low-resolution
  • single light source
  • partial face view
  • blocky appearance
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 04:26 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
Raw JSON
Source semantic tags (1)
TagConf.Evidenceimg0.80wayback-buddy-icons-info-img-icon-gifs · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · category · broad · observation-category
Full source records (1)
Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs (wayback-buddy-icons-info-img-icon-gifs)
Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-to-Late-2000s AIM Portal
Type
Wayback direct native asset enumeration
Category
img / icon
Alt
2929
Observed
July 11, 2026 at 22:26 UTC
Rights
mixed user-submitted and licensed imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
native Buddy-Icons.info AIM icon assets spanning user submissions, fandom, identity, relationships, school, sports, music, movies, and celebrity culture
Original: http://buddy-icons.info/img/icon/2929.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20111128163429id_/http://buddy-icons.info/img/icon/2929.gif