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A pixelated portrait of a person with long brown hair wearing a white top with pink accents against a soft green and blue background.

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A pixelated portrait of a person with long brown hair wearing a white top with pink accents against a soft green and blue background.

A pixelated portrait of a person with long brown hair wearing a white top with pink accents against a soft green and blue background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archiv…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered subject
  • soft pastel background

Dense Caption

The image shows a static, pixelated close-up of a person with shoulder-length straight brown hair. The individual wears a light-colored sleeveless top featuring two distinct pink curved shapes on the chest area. The background consists of blended pastel tones including muted green, pale blue, and soft pink. Pixelation is prominent across all elements, indicating low resolution or heavy compression. No visible text appears in the image.

Description

  • A pixelated portrait of a person with long brown hair wearing a white top with pink accents against a soft green and blue background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation file-name (gallery): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • observation title (gallery): 2009101112471242578689
  • observation title (gallery): 20091011124715865752495
  • observation file-name (gallery): 2009101112471242578689
  • observation file-name (gallery): 20091011124715865752495

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person brown hair white top pink accents
  • pastel background pixel art portrait
  • low resolution static image no text

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or heavily compressed based on pixelation pattern

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

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • pixelated portrait
  • brown hair
  • white top with pink accents
  • pastel background
  • no visible text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2009101112471242578689
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20091011124715865752495
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b4/b4c8bbcd8d94c231c39d511b356b3e049088611c947b733d08fce3c78e75c96d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 UTC
Archive ID
b4c8bbcd8d94c231
SHA-256
b4c8bbcd8d94c231c39d511b356b3e049088611c947b733d08fce3c78e75c96d
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 19, 2026 at 19:03 UTC
Run
1315
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000034

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 26, 2026 at 12:23 UTC
Run
1191
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001146

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:29 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
nsfw
Overall score
0.696958

OpenAI category scores

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A pixelated portrait of a person with long brown hair wearing a white top with pink accents against a soft green and blue background.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 18:57 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,347 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,134, response 757

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • brown
  • white
  • pink
  • green
  • blue

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered subject
  • soft pastel background

Dense Caption

The image shows a static, pixelated close-up of a person with shoulder-length straight brown hair. The individual wears a light-colored sleeveless top featuring two distinct pink curved shapes on the chest area. The background consists of blended pastel tones including muted green, pale blue, and soft pink. Pixelation is prominent across all elements, indicating low resolution or heavy compression. No visible text appears in the image.

Description

  • A pixelated portrait of a person with long brown hair wearing a white top with pink accents against a soft green and blue background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation file-name (gallery): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • observation title (gallery): 2009101112471242578689
  • observation title (gallery): 20091011124715865752495
  • observation file-name (gallery): 2009101112471242578689
  • observation file-name (gallery): 20091011124715865752495

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person brown hair white top pink accents
  • pastel background pixel art portrait
  • low resolution static image no text

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or heavily compressed based on pixelation pattern

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • static

Subjects

  • person

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • pixelated portrait
  • brown hair
  • white top with pink accents
  • pastel background
  • no visible text
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Full source records (2)

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
2009101112471242578689
Archive entry
2009101112471242578689.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 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#2009101112471242578689.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2009101112471242578689.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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
20091011124715865752495
Archive entry
20091011124715865752495.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 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#20091011124715865752495.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20091011124715865752495.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016