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Pixelated close-up of a person's face wearing dark sunglasses with a light-colored frame, showing a side profile against a light background.

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Pixelated close-up of a person's face wearing dark sunglasses with a light-colored frame, showing a side profile against a light background.

Pixelated close-up of a person's face wearing dark sunglasses with a light-colored frame, showing a side profile against a light background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • side profile
  • cropped

Dense Caption

The image is a pixelated close-up of a person's face in side profile. The person has short dark hair and is wearing dark sunglasses with a light-colored frame. The skin tone is brown. The background is a light, neutral color. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics. No text is visible in the image. The person's expression is neutral. The image is cropped to show only the head and part of the neck.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person's face wearing dark sunglasses with a light-colored frame, showing a side profile against a light 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: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 20090731170321430197336

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated side profile sunglasses
  • brown skin dark hair
  • low resolution digital art
  • sunglasses light frame
  • neutral expression cropped head

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled

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

  • pixelated
  • side profile
  • dark sunglasses
  • light frame
  • brown skin
  • short dark hair
  • light background
  • low resolution
  • neutral expression
  • cropped to head

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090731170321430197336
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:01 UTC

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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
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:01 UTC
Archive ID
ccf421eb8b727bfe
SHA-256
ccf421eb8b727bfe6c0b99cb103ff3d20a545d2f9446693d1a50dff01f91dfb4
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:43 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.058032

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated close-up of a person's face wearing dark sunglasses with a light-colored frame, showing a side profile against a light background.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 15:37 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,389 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,089, response 740

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • sunglasses (object, 0.80)
  • digital (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • brown
  • black
  • light gray
  • white

Composition

  • close-up
  • side profile
  • cropped

Dense Caption

The image is a pixelated close-up of a person's face in side profile. The person has short dark hair and is wearing dark sunglasses with a light-colored frame. The skin tone is brown. The background is a light, neutral color. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics. No text is visible in the image. The person's expression is neutral. The image is cropped to show only the head and part of the neck.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person's face wearing dark sunglasses with a light-colored frame, showing a side profile against a light 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: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 20090731170321430197336

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated side profile sunglasses
  • brown skin dark hair
  • low resolution digital art
  • sunglasses light frame
  • neutral expression cropped head

Objects

  • sunglasses

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • 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

Style

  • pixel art
  • low resolution
  • digital

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • side profile
  • dark sunglasses
  • light frame
  • brown skin
  • short dark hair
  • light background
  • low resolution
  • neutral expression
  • cropped to head
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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
20090731170321430197336
Archive entry
20090731170321430197336.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:01 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#20090731170321430197336.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090731170321430197336.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016