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Pixelated static image of a person with dark hair and brown skin wearing a dark blue top against a blurred background with light and dark areas.

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Pixelated static image of a person with dark hair and brown skin wearing a dark blue top against a blurred background with light and dark areas.

Pixelated static image of a person with dark hair and brown skin wearing a dark blue top against a blurred background with light and dark areas. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Inte…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • cropped to upper body
  • partial face
  • blurred background
  • mixed light and shadow

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image shows a person with dark hair and brown skin wearing a dark blue top. The background contains blurred light and dark areas with vertical and horizontal shapes. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation. No text or symbols are present. The person's face is partially visible with a neutral expression. The image is cropped to show the upper body and head. The lighting appears to be natural with a mix of light and shadow.

Description

Pixelated static image of a person with dark hair and brown skin wearing a dark blue top against a blurred background with light and dark areas.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person dark hair brown skin dark blue top
  • pixelated static image
  • blurred background light and dark areas
  • neutral expression upper body
  • low resolution cropped image
  • no text no symbols
  • natural lighting mixed colors
  • vertical horizontal shapes

Preprocessing Notes

  • image is pixelated
  • image is static
  • image is cropped

Source Metadata Interpretation

untrustedSourceHintsJson contains multiple era claims (2007, 2016) and collection claims (franksicons, 2007-2016) but these are not confirmed by pixel evidence

Wordwall

  • dark hair
  • brown skin
  • dark blue top
  • pixelated
  • blurred background
  • neutral expression
  • upper body
  • natural lighting
  • low resolution
  • vertical shapes
  • horizontal shapes
  • light and dark areas
  • partially visible face
  • cropped image
  • no text
  • no symbols
  • light and shadow
  • mixed colors
  • static image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080916172256320538166
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/bc/bc10303b43279783cee7c28a691b6f90f3ee75af729e7fad17a57762c6a15eaf.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC
Archive ID
bc10303b43279783
SHA-256
bc10303b43279783cee7c28a691b6f90f3ee75af729e7fad17a57762c6a15eaf
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:34 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.081942

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated static image of a person with dark hair and brown skin wearing a dark blue top against a blurred background with light and dark areas.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 00:34 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,509 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,089, response 772

Review tags

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

  • dark blue
  • brown
  • light gray
  • dark gray
  • white
  • green

Composition

  • cropped to upper body
  • partial face
  • blurred background
  • mixed light and shadow

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image shows a person with dark hair and brown skin wearing a dark blue top. The background contains blurred light and dark areas with vertical and horizontal shapes. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation. No text or symbols are present. The person's face is partially visible with a neutral expression. The image is cropped to show the upper body and head. The lighting appears to be natural with a mix of light and shadow.

Description

Pixelated static image of a person with dark hair and brown skin wearing a dark blue top against a blurred background with light and dark areas.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person dark hair brown skin dark blue top
  • pixelated static image
  • blurred background light and dark areas
  • neutral expression upper body
  • low resolution cropped image
  • no text no symbols
  • natural lighting mixed colors
  • vertical horizontal shapes

Preprocessing Notes

  • image is pixelated
  • image is static
  • image is cropped

Source Metadata Interpretation

untrustedSourceHintsJson contains multiple era claims (2007, 2016) and collection claims (franksicons, 2007-2016) but these are not confirmed by pixel evidence

Style

  • pixelated
  • low resolution
  • static

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

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  • brown skin
  • dark blue top
  • pixelated
  • blurred background
  • neutral expression
  • upper body
  • natural lighting
  • low resolution
  • vertical shapes
  • horizontal shapes
  • light and dark areas
  • partially visible face
  • cropped image
  • no text
  • no symbols
  • light and shadow
  • mixed colors
  • static 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
20080916172256320538166
Archive entry
20080916172256320538166.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 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#20080916172256320538166.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080916172256320538166.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016