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Pixelated image of a person with short dark hair wearing a white top, positioned against a background with brown, green, and white sections.

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Pixelated image of a person with short dark hair wearing a white top, positioned against a background with brown, green, and white sections.

Pixelated image of a person with short dark hair wearing a white top, positioned against a background with brown, green, and white sections. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • person centered
  • background split into sections

Dense Caption

The image is a pixelated static icon. A person with short dark hair and a light brown beard is visible. The person wears a white top. The background consists of a brown section on the left, a green section on the right, and a white section behind the person. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics. No text is visible in the image.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with short dark hair wearing a white top, positioned against a background with brown, green, and white sections.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person with short dark hair white top
  • brown green white background
  • pixelated static icon
  • low resolution image
  • bearded person white top
  • brown background green background
  • person centered background split
  • static pixelated image

Wordwall

  • person
  • short dark hair
  • light brown beard
  • white top
  • brown background
  • green background
  • white background
  • pixelated
  • low resolution
  • static

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200810011614101954390835
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/bd/bd3faac6f8dab8db5eb950caf37cc2a169ea63b4a7b4c10485a8330458e41a10.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC
Archive ID
bd3faac6f8dab8db
SHA-256
bd3faac6f8dab8db5eb950caf37cc2a169ea63b4a7b4c10485a8330458e41a10
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 16, 2026 at 23:00 UTC
Run
1309
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.047288

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:27 UTC
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1136
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Overall label
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Overall score
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Pixelated image of a person with short dark hair wearing a white top, positioned against a background with brown, green, and white sections.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 02:32 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,103 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,089, response 642

Review tags

  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark brown (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • brown
  • green
  • white
  • dark brown
  • light brown

Composition

  • person centered
  • background split into sections

Dense Caption

The image is a pixelated static icon. A person with short dark hair and a light brown beard is visible. The person wears a white top. The background consists of a brown section on the left, a green section on the right, and a white section behind the person. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics. No text is visible in the image.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with short dark hair wearing a white top, positioned against a background with brown, green, and white sections.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person with short dark hair white top
  • brown green white background
  • pixelated static icon
  • low resolution image
  • bearded person white top
  • brown background green background
  • person centered background split
  • static pixelated image

Style

  • pixelated
  • low resolution

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • person
  • short dark hair
  • light brown beard
  • white top
  • brown background
  • green background
  • white background
  • pixelated
  • low resolution
  • static
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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
200810011614101954390835
Archive entry
200810011614101954390835.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 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#200810011614101954390835.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200810011614101954390835.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016