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Pixelated image of a person with dark hair tied back, wearing light-colored clothing against a blurred background.

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Pixelated image of a person with dark hair tied back, wearing light-colored clothing against a blurred background.

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered subject
  • cropped at shoulders

Dense Caption

The icon shows a pixelated close-up of an individual with short dark hair styled in a side ponytail. The subject's face is visible from the shoulders up, showing brown eyes and a neutral expression. Light-colored fabric appears on the lower portion of the image, suggesting clothing. The background consists of blurred light blue and white tones. Pixelation obscures fine details but preserves basic color separation.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with dark hair tied back, wearing light-colored clothing against a blurred background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • dark hair side ponytail
  • brown eyes neutral expression
  • light clothing pixelated background

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original dimensions

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 topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • dark hair
  • side ponytail
  • brown eyes
  • neutral expression
  • light-colored clothing
  • blurred background
  • pixelated rendering

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2009072521135319768148
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 UTC

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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/b8/b8693726c3556d29b5c0b775b9816c7d6c5aa91096f8cf70c9842e608b80d941.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 UTC
Archive ID
b8693726c3556d29
SHA-256
b8693726c3556d29b5c0b775b9816c7d6c5aa91096f8cf70c9842e608b80d941
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 11, 2026 at 09:25 UTC
Run
1281
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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July 23, 2026 at 19:32 UTC
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Pixelated image of a person with dark hair tied back, wearing light-colored clothing against a blurred background.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 15:17 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,492 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,093, response 645

Review tags

  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (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

  • dark blue
  • brown
  • white
  • light blue

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered subject
  • cropped at shoulders

Dense Caption

The icon shows a pixelated close-up of an individual with short dark hair styled in a side ponytail. The subject's face is visible from the shoulders up, showing brown eyes and a neutral expression. Light-colored fabric appears on the lower portion of the image, suggesting clothing. The background consists of blurred light blue and white tones. Pixelation obscures fine details but preserves basic color separation.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with dark hair tied back, wearing light-colored clothing against a blurred background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • dark hair side ponytail
  • brown eyes neutral expression
  • light clothing pixelated background

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original dimensions

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 topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • dark hair
  • side ponytail
  • brown eyes
  • neutral expression
  • light-colored clothing
  • blurred background
  • pixelated rendering
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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
2009072521135319768148
Archive entry
2009072521135319768148.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 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#2009072521135319768148.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2009072521135319768148.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016