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Pixelated image of a person wearing a black hat with a blue top, white shirt, and blue pants, smiling against a light beige background.

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Pixelated image of a person wearing a black hat with a blue top, white shirt, and blue pants, smiling against a light beige background.

Pixelated image of a person wearing a black hat with a blue top, white shirt, and blue pants, smiling against a light beige background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Arch…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered subject
  • medium close-up
  • light background

Dense Caption

Pixelated image of a person with short brown hair wearing a black hat with a blue top, white shirt, and blue pants. The person is smiling with visible teeth, head slightly tilted, against a light beige background. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation, no text or symbols present, and appears to be a static digital portrait.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person wearing a black hat with a blue top, white shirt, and blue pants, smiling against a light beige background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 201001170943031319951735

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person smiling pixelated
  • black hat blue top white shirt
  • low resolution digital portrait
  • beige background smiling person
  • blue pants white shirt black hat
  • pixelated static image smiling
  • brown hair blue pants white shirt
  • hat shirt pants smiling person

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original dimensions

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

  • black hat
  • blue top
  • white shirt
  • blue pants
  • smiling
  • short brown hair
  • light beige background
  • pixelated
  • static image
  • low resolution

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
201001170943031319951735
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.4 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 16:04 UTC
Archive ID
d0a701ce89182804
SHA-256
d0a701ce89182804de89060b1d580072958b1e48c867e67e87bcd7f6a0ba5ee9
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:06 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.081914

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated image of a person wearing a black hat with a blue top, white shirt, and blue pants, smiling against a light beige background.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 16:23 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,732 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,093, response 818

Review tags

  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • tilting head (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
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  • pants (object, 0.80)
  • shirt (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static digital portrait (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling
  • tilting head

Colors

  • black
  • blue
  • white
  • brown
  • beige

Composition

  • centered subject
  • medium close-up
  • light background

Dense Caption

Pixelated image of a person with short brown hair wearing a black hat with a blue top, white shirt, and blue pants. The person is smiling with visible teeth, head slightly tilted, against a light beige background. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation, no text or symbols present, and appears to be a static digital portrait.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person wearing a black hat with a blue top, white shirt, and blue pants, smiling against a light beige background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 201001170943031319951735

Mood

  • happy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person smiling pixelated
  • black hat blue top white shirt
  • low resolution digital portrait
  • beige background smiling person
  • blue pants white shirt black hat
  • pixelated static image smiling
  • brown hair blue pants white shirt
  • hat shirt pants smiling person

Objects

  • hat
  • shirt
  • pants

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original dimensions

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • 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

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • static digital portrait

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • black hat
  • blue top
  • white shirt
  • blue pants
  • smiling
  • short brown hair
  • light beige background
  • pixelated
  • static image
  • low resolution
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 21:58 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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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
201001170943031319951735
Archive entry
201001170943031319951735.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 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#201001170943031319951735.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#201001170943031319951735.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016