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A pixelated image of a person with long dark hair wearing white-framed sunglasses and a black sleeveless top against a red and gray background.

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A pixelated image of a person with long dark hair wearing white-framed sunglasses and a black sleeveless top against a red and gray background.

A pixelated image of a person with long dark hair wearing white-framed sunglasses and a black sleeveless top against a red and gray background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Inter…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • vertical background split

Dense Caption

The image shows a person with long dark hair, white-framed sunglasses, and a black sleeveless top. The background consists of a red vertical section on the right and a gray section on the left. The image is highly pixelated, with visible blocky artifacts. The person's mouth is slightly open, and the overall composition is a close-up portrait. The image has a low-resolution, digital appearance typical of early 2000s web graphics.

Description

A pixelated image of a person with long dark hair wearing white-framed sunglasses and a black sleeveless top against a red and gray 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
  • 2007-2016
  • 20090506080218514291251

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person with sunglasses
  • pixelated portrait
  • red and gray background
  • black sleeveless top
  • long dark hair
  • white-framed sunglasses
  • low-resolution image
  • sunglasses portrait

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Wordwall

  • long dark hair
  • white-framed sunglasses
  • black sleeveless top
  • red background
  • gray background
  • pixelated
  • mouth slightly open
  • close-up portrait
  • low-resolution
  • digital appearance

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090506080218514291251
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 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/cc/ccb5096a560fcfa1a87b0c5c6971b583758806692d64e0aa1be4b00d52ddd224.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 UTC
Archive ID
ccb5096a560fcfa1
SHA-256
ccb5096a560fcfa1a87b0c5c6971b583758806692d64e0aa1be4b00d52ddd224
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 19, 2026 at 09:09 UTC
Run
1315
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000076

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 25, 2026 at 11:01 UTC
Run
1187
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:43 UTC
Run
1140
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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A pixelated image of a person with long dark hair wearing white-framed sunglasses and a black sleeveless top against a red and gray background.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 09:01 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,540 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,090, response 771

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • sunglasses (object, 0.80)
  • top (object, 0.80)
  • digital (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • red
  • gray
  • brown

Composition

  • close-up
  • vertical background split

Dense Caption

The image shows a person with long dark hair, white-framed sunglasses, and a black sleeveless top. The background consists of a red vertical section on the right and a gray section on the left. The image is highly pixelated, with visible blocky artifacts. The person's mouth is slightly open, and the overall composition is a close-up portrait. The image has a low-resolution, digital appearance typical of early 2000s web graphics.

Description

A pixelated image of a person with long dark hair wearing white-framed sunglasses and a black sleeveless top against a red and gray 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
  • 2007-2016
  • 20090506080218514291251

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • pixelated portrait
  • red and gray background
  • black sleeveless top
  • long dark hair
  • white-framed sunglasses
  • low-resolution image
  • sunglasses portrait

Objects

  • sunglasses
  • top

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
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  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • digital

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

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  • black sleeveless top
  • red background
  • gray background
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  • digital appearance
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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
20090506080218514291251
Archive entry
20090506080218514291251.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 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#20090506080218514291251.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090506080218514291251.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016