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A pixelated static image shows a person with dark hair wearing a light gray cowboy hat, viewed from the side against a plain background.

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A pixelated static image shows a person with dark hair wearing a light gray cowboy hat, viewed from the side against a plain background.

A pixelated static image shows a person with dark hair wearing a light gray cowboy hat, viewed from the side against a plain background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Arc…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • profile view
  • centered subject
  • minimal background

Dense Caption

The icon is a low-resolution static image depicting a figure in profile. The figure has long dark brown or black hair and wears a light gray cowboy hat with a darker band around its base. The face shows closed eyes, a visible nose, and lips with subtle pink coloring. The background consists of indistinct light gray and white tones without distinct shapes or patterns. Pixelation is prominent across the entire image, indicating low resolution.

Description

  • A pixelated static image shows a person with dark hair wearing a light gray cowboy hat, viewed from the side against a plain 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 Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20081214152516341770467
  • franksicons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person cowboy hat profile
  • gray hat dark hair closed eyes
  • pixelated person pink lips
  • low-resolution gray background

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-quality from original source

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 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
  • gray cowboy hat
  • closed eyes
  • profile view
  • pink lips
  • light gray background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081214152516341770467
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/c2/c2fde201ab8e07555abfd5fa7e051b575a4c877241f173aa2c5af7856f0d0856.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 UTC
Archive ID
c2fde201ab8e0755
SHA-256
c2fde201ab8e07555abfd5fa7e051b575a4c877241f173aa2c5af7856f0d0856
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 22, 2026 at 06:38 UTC
Run
1322
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000017

OpenAI category scores

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 14, 2026 at 07:23 UTC
Run
1290
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000591

OpenAI category scores

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onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:50 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.150697

OpenAI category scores

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A pixelated static image shows a person with dark hair wearing a light gray cowboy hat, viewed from the side against a plain background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 13:45 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,676 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,090, response 680

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • cowboy hat (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • gray
  • black
  • brown
  • pink

Composition

  • profile view
  • centered subject
  • minimal background

Dense Caption

The icon is a low-resolution static image depicting a figure in profile. The figure has long dark brown or black hair and wears a light gray cowboy hat with a darker band around its base. The face shows closed eyes, a visible nose, and lips with subtle pink coloring. The background consists of indistinct light gray and white tones without distinct shapes or patterns. Pixelation is prominent across the entire image, indicating low resolution.

Description

  • A pixelated static image shows a person with dark hair wearing a light gray cowboy hat, viewed from the side against a plain 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 Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20081214152516341770467
  • franksicons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person cowboy hat profile
  • gray hat dark hair closed eyes
  • pixelated person pink lips
  • low-resolution gray background

Objects

  • cowboy hat

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-quality from original source

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 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
  • gray cowboy hat
  • closed eyes
  • profile view
  • pink lips
  • light gray background
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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
20081214152516341770467
Archive entry
20081214152516341770467.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 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#20081214152516341770467.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081214152516341770467.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016