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Pixelated static image of a person with dark hair wearing a black jacket over a yellow shirt, smiling slightly against a blurred background.

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Pixelated static image of a person with dark hair wearing a black jacket over a yellow shirt, smiling slightly against a blurred background.

Pixelated static image of a person with dark hair wearing a black jacket over a yellow shirt, smiling slightly against a blurred background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • chest-up crop
  • centered subject
  • blurred background

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image shows a figure from the chest up. The figure has short dark hair and is wearing a black jacket with visible texture details over a yellow inner garment. The face displays a slight smile with closed lips; eyes are partially obscured by pixelation. Background consists of indistinct light gray and beige tones suggesting an indoor setting. Pixelation affects all areas, reducing fine detail but preserving color blocks.

Description

  • Pixelated static image of a person with dark hair wearing a black jacket over a yellow shirt, smiling slightly against a blurred background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • anime
  • celebrities
  • games
  • holidays
  • humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person dark hair black jacket yellow shirt
  • pixelated smiling figure indoor background
  • chest-up crop person smile
  • black jacket yellow inner garment

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-quality from original source

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity: franksicons
  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

  • dark hair
  • black jacket
  • yellow shirt
  • slight smile
  • indoor background
  • pixelated image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200904152030021670127821
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 UTC

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Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/af/afb3ac8dd61ac3a2b355fa62da4d83193e15112da7a845319ff3fed147e174b5.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 UTC
Archive ID
afb3ac8dd61ac3a2
SHA-256
afb3ac8dd61ac3a2b355fa62da4d83193e15112da7a845319ff3fed147e174b5
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 10, 2026 at 21:24 UTC
Run
1281
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001298

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July 23, 2026 at 19:26 UTC
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1136
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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Pixelated static image of a person with dark hair wearing a black jacket over a yellow shirt, smiling slightly against a blurred background.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 06:50 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,280 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,089, response 608

Review tags

  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • beige (color, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling

Colors

  • black
  • yellow
  • gray
  • beige

Composition

  • chest-up crop
  • centered subject
  • blurred background

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image shows a figure from the chest up. The figure has short dark hair and is wearing a black jacket with visible texture details over a yellow inner garment. The face displays a slight smile with closed lips; eyes are partially obscured by pixelation. Background consists of indistinct light gray and beige tones suggesting an indoor setting. Pixelation affects all areas, reducing fine detail but preserving color blocks.

Description

  • Pixelated static image of a person with dark hair wearing a black jacket over a yellow shirt, smiling slightly against a blurred background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • anime
  • celebrities
  • games
  • holidays
  • humor

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person dark hair black jacket yellow shirt
  • pixelated smiling figure indoor background
  • chest-up crop person smile
  • black jacket yellow inner garment

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-quality from original source

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity: franksicons
  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • dark hair
  • black jacket
  • yellow shirt
  • slight smile
  • indoor 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
200904152030021670127821
Archive entry
200904152030021670127821.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 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#200904152030021670127821.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200904152030021670127821.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016