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A pixelated image shows a person with light skin and reddish-brown hair, wearing a white shirt, with a blurred background and partially visible text.

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A pixelated image shows a person with light skin and reddish-brown hair, wearing a white shirt, with a blurred background and partially visible text.

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered subject
  • text at bottom

Dense Caption

The image is a low-resolution, pixelated static icon. A person with light skin and reddish-brown hair is centered, wearing a white shirt. The background is dark with brown and purple hues. Partially visible text at the bottom reads 'BROOKLYN' in white capital letters with a black outline. The image has a grainy texture and lacks sharp details.

Description

A pixelated image shows a person with light skin and reddish-brown hair, wearing a white shirt, with a blurred background and partially visible text.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person reddish-brown hair white shirt
  • BROOKLYN text dark background
  • pixelated low-resolution icon
  • text at bottom white capital letters

Visible Text

  • BROOKLYN

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  • person
  • light skin
  • reddish-brown hair
  • white shirt
  • dark background
  • brown hues
  • purple hues
  • partially visible text
  • BROOKLYN
  • white capital letters
  • black outline
  • grainy texture
  • low-resolution
  • pixelated

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708061903421888673506
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 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/c2/c21c2781dc4e8e990dabeb217e66c03f4980d0ceee11466e4f64434f9650b903.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC
Archive ID
c21c2781dc4e8e99
SHA-256
c21c2781dc4e8e990dabeb217e66c03f4980d0ceee11466e4f64434f9650b903
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:37 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.107229

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A pixelated image shows a person with light skin and reddish-brown hair, wearing a white shirt, with a blurred background and partially visible text.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 19:57 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,452 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,094, response 668

Review tags

  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark (color, 0.80)
  • light skin (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • reddish brown (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • light skin
  • reddish-brown
  • white
  • dark
  • brown
  • purple

Composition

  • centered subject
  • text at bottom

Dense Caption

The image is a low-resolution, pixelated static icon. A person with light skin and reddish-brown hair is centered, wearing a white shirt. The background is dark with brown and purple hues. Partially visible text at the bottom reads 'BROOKLYN' in white capital letters with a black outline. The image has a grainy texture and lacks sharp details.

Description

A pixelated image shows a person with light skin and reddish-brown hair, wearing a white shirt, with a blurred background and partially visible text.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person reddish-brown hair white shirt
  • BROOKLYN text dark background
  • pixelated low-resolution icon
  • text at bottom white capital letters

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • BROOKLYN

Wordwall

  • person
  • light skin
  • reddish-brown hair
  • white shirt
  • dark background
  • brown hues
  • purple hues
  • partially visible text
  • BROOKLYN
  • white capital letters
  • black outline
  • grainy texture
  • low-resolution
  • pixelated
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 10:39 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)
Raw JSON
Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
200708061903421888673506
Archive entry
200708061903421888673506.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 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#200708061903421888673506.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708061903421888673506.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016