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A pixelated static image shows a person with dark hair wearing sunglasses and a white triangular headpiece against a brown background.

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A pixelated static image shows a person with dark hair wearing sunglasses and a white triangular headpiece against a brown background.

A pixelated static image shows a person with dark hair wearing sunglasses and a white triangular headpiece against a brown background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archi…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • cropped upper body
  • centered subject
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The icon is a low-resolution, pixelated static image. It features a figure with short dark hair, wearing black rectangular sunglasses covering the eyes. The figure has light skin tone and wears a white triangular headpiece positioned on the left side of the head. The background consists of solid brown tones with no visible texture or additional elements. The image is cropped to show only the upper body from shoulders up.

Description

  • A pixelated static image shows a person with dark hair wearing sunglasses and a white triangular headpiece against a brown background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200806191153511984679865

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person with sunglasses and white headpiece
  • brown background pixelated icon
  • dark hair light skin tone
  • cropped upper body static image

Preprocessing Notes

  • low-resolution pixelation affects detail clarity

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata about collection era and topic coverage but no image-specific claims

Wordwall

  • dark hair
  • sunglasses
  • white headpiece
  • brown background
  • light skin tone
  • pixelated

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200806191153511984679865
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:30 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
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:30 UTC
Archive ID
c63e520eaee1d3e6
SHA-256
c63e520eaee1d3e6234bcfb2052a4c12bfeaebde5cf6dc6c79d7749b96b8bbc3
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 9, 2026 at 00:23 UTC
Run
1275
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.010106

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:40 UTC
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1140
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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A pixelated static image shows a person with dark hair wearing sunglasses and a white triangular headpiece against a brown background.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 07:10 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
5,993 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,087, response 602

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • headpiece (object, 0.80)
  • sunglasses (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • brown
  • light brown

Composition

  • cropped upper body
  • centered subject
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The icon is a low-resolution, pixelated static image. It features a figure with short dark hair, wearing black rectangular sunglasses covering the eyes. The figure has light skin tone and wears a white triangular headpiece positioned on the left side of the head. The background consists of solid brown tones with no visible texture or additional elements. The image is cropped to show only the upper body from shoulders up.

Description

  • A pixelated static image shows a person with dark hair wearing sunglasses and a white triangular headpiece against a brown background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200806191153511984679865

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person with sunglasses and white headpiece
  • brown background pixelated icon
  • dark hair light skin tone
  • cropped upper body static image

Objects

  • sunglasses
  • headpiece

Preprocessing Notes

  • low-resolution pixelation affects detail clarity

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata about collection era and topic coverage but no image-specific claims

Style

  • pixelated
  • static

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • dark hair
  • sunglasses
  • white headpiece
  • brown background
  • light skin tone
  • pixelated
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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
200806191153511984679865
Archive entry
200806191153511984679865.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:30 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#200806191153511984679865.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200806191153511984679865.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016