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Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair, light skin tone, and visible ear; background is blurred neutral tones.

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Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair, light skin tone, and visible ear; background is blurred neutral tones.

Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair, light skin tone, and visible ear; background is blurred neutral tones. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sh…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • partial upper body
  • cropped at shoulders
  • centered subject

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image shows partial upper body of individual with short dark brown hair styled upward. Visible features include left eye with eyeliner, right eye partially obscured by shadow, pink lips in slight smile, and left ear. Skin tone is light beige. Background consists of indistinct muted gray and brown tones. Pixelation obscures fine details; no visible clothing or accessories beyond partial shoulder area.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair, light skin tone, and visible ear; background is blurred neutral tones.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation file-name (gallery): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • observation title (gallery): 20080309132411603702779
  • observation file-name (gallery): 20080309132411603702779

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person dark hair light skin
  • pixelated close-up celebrity
  • left ear visible pink lips
  • muted background neutral tones

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution

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

  • celebrities

Wordwall

  • dark hair
  • light skin
  • left eye
  • right eye partially obscured
  • pink lips
  • slight smile
  • left ear
  • pixelated image
  • muted background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080309132411603702779
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:18 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/c6/c6388d88fc063dba118aa58f50eb21741932fd412d23d601b81fa366595cb57e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:18 UTC
Archive ID
c6388d88fc063dba
SHA-256
c6388d88fc063dba118aa58f50eb21741932fd412d23d601b81fa366595cb57e
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 4, 2026 at 06:02 UTC
Run
1266
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.002786

OpenAI category scores

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 29, 2026 at 16:48 UTC
Run
1245
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001154

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.001154falseself-harm0.000465falsesexual0.000065falseviolence/graphic0.000013falseself-harm/intent0.000004falseself-harm/instructions0.000002falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:40 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
nsfw
Overall score
0.520194

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair, light skin tone, and visible ear; background is blurred neutral tones.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 05:51 UTC
Run
57
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,837 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,089, response 703

Review tags

  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light beige (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • close up (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • dark brown
  • light beige
  • gray
  • brown
  • pink

Composition

  • partial upper body
  • cropped at shoulders
  • centered subject

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image shows partial upper body of individual with short dark brown hair styled upward. Visible features include left eye with eyeliner, right eye partially obscured by shadow, pink lips in slight smile, and left ear. Skin tone is light beige. Background consists of indistinct muted gray and brown tones. Pixelation obscures fine details; no visible clothing or accessories beyond partial shoulder area.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair, light skin tone, and visible ear; background is blurred neutral tones.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation file-name (gallery): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • observation title (gallery): 20080309132411603702779
  • observation file-name (gallery): 20080309132411603702779

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person dark hair light skin
  • pixelated close-up celebrity
  • left ear visible pink lips
  • muted background neutral tones

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution

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
  • close-up

Subjects

  • person

Visually Supported Entities

  • celebrities

Wordwall

  • dark hair
  • light skin
  • left eye
  • right eye partially obscured
  • pink lips
  • slight smile
  • left ear
  • pixelated image
  • muted 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
20080309132411603702779
Archive entry
20080309132411603702779.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:18 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#20080309132411603702779.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080309132411603702779.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016