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Pixelated static image of a person in a blue shirt against a dark background with light vertical elements.

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Pixelated static image of a person in a blue shirt against a dark background with light vertical elements.

Pixelated static image of a person in a blue shirt against a dark background with light vertical elements. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • upper body
  • dark background
  • vertical light elements on right

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image shows a person with short dark hair wearing a blue shirt. The person's face is partially visible with light skin tone, brown eyes, and a neutral expression. The background is dark with vertical light blue and white elements on the right side. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation across all areas. No text or symbols are present. The person's right arm is partially visible at the bottom left. The image is cropped to show the upper body and head.

Description

  • Pixelated static image of a person in a blue shirt against a dark background with light vertical elements.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20070902160114387178802

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person blue shirt dark hair
  • pixelated upper body dark background
  • blue shirt dark hair neutral expression
  • low resolution pixelated person

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

  • blue shirt
  • dark hair
  • light skin
  • neutral expression
  • dark background
  • vertical light elements
  • low resolution
  • pixelated
  • upper body
  • right arm partial

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070902160114387178802
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 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/b3/b36644be57ef0eac1c8cb0bd4bede2102d4ad958fa3dd8d36f8020516b160489.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 UTC
Archive ID
b36644be57ef0eac
SHA-256
b36644be57ef0eac1c8cb0bd4bede2102d4ad958fa3dd8d36f8020516b160489
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:28 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.081657

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated static image of a person in a blue shirt against a dark background with light vertical elements.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 09:17 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,212 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,087, response 760

Review tags

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

Colors

  • blue
  • dark
  • light blue
  • white
  • brown
  • light skin

Composition

  • upper body
  • dark background
  • vertical light elements on right

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image shows a person with short dark hair wearing a blue shirt. The person's face is partially visible with light skin tone, brown eyes, and a neutral expression. The background is dark with vertical light blue and white elements on the right side. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation across all areas. No text or symbols are present. The person's right arm is partially visible at the bottom left. The image is cropped to show the upper body and head.

Description

  • Pixelated static image of a person in a blue shirt against a dark background with light vertical elements.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20070902160114387178802

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person blue shirt dark hair
  • pixelated upper body dark background
  • blue shirt dark hair neutral expression
  • low resolution pixelated person

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
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  • 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

  • blue shirt
  • dark hair
  • light skin
  • neutral expression
  • dark background
  • vertical light elements
  • low resolution
  • pixelated
  • upper body
  • right arm partial
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 13:59 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)
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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
20070902160114387178802
Archive entry
20070902160114387178802.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 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#20070902160114387178802.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070902160114387178802.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016