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A grayscale pixelated image of a person with dark hair and closed eyes, overlaid with green text reading 'Vicki' at the bottom.

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A grayscale pixelated image of a person with dark hair and closed eyes, overlaid with green text reading 'Vicki' at the bottom.

A grayscale pixelated image of a person with dark hair and closed eyes, overlaid with green text reading 'Vicki' at the bottom. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fran…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up portrait
  • text at bottom edge

Dense Caption

The icon is a static 2D digital image rendered in grayscale. It features a close-up portrait of an individual with voluminous dark curly hair obscuring part of their face; one eye appears closed or squinted, while the other is partially visible. The background consists of indistinct light and dark gray pixelated shapes suggesting an outdoor setting. At the bottom edge, there is green text in a blocky digital font spelling 'Vicki' with a stylized arrow replacing the letter 'O'. The image has low resolution with heavy pixelation throughout.

Description

  • A grayscale pixelated image of a person with dark hair and closed eyes, overlaid with green text reading 'Vicki' at the bottom.

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: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 20080125100219714183113

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Named Entities

  • Vicki

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixelated person
  • green text Vicki
  • stylized O icon
  • closed eye grayscale portrait

Preprocessing Notes

  • low resolution
  • heavy pixelation

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

Visible Text

  • Vicki

Visually Supported Entities

  • Vicki

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • dark hair
  • closed eye
  • green text
  • blocky font
  • stylized O
  • outdoor background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080125100219714183113
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/d1/d144ced7e8638a15c2625f6270bea0ad28b84872f17dcf72bbf8c95bc918a58f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 UTC
Archive ID
d144ced7e8638a15
SHA-256
d144ced7e8638a15c2625f6270bea0ad28b84872f17dcf72bbf8c95bc918a58f
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:46 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.228002

OpenAI category scores

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A grayscale pixelated image of a person with dark hair and closed eyes, overlaid with green text reading 'Vicki' at the bottom.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 12:48 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,428 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,090, response 702

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • gray
  • black
  • white
  • green

Composition

  • close-up portrait
  • text at bottom edge

Dense Caption

The icon is a static 2D digital image rendered in grayscale. It features a close-up portrait of an individual with voluminous dark curly hair obscuring part of their face; one eye appears closed or squinted, while the other is partially visible. The background consists of indistinct light and dark gray pixelated shapes suggesting an outdoor setting. At the bottom edge, there is green text in a blocky digital font spelling 'Vicki' with a stylized arrow replacing the letter 'O'. The image has low resolution with heavy pixelation throughout.

Description

  • A grayscale pixelated image of a person with dark hair and closed eyes, overlaid with green text reading 'Vicki' at the bottom.

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: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 20080125100219714183113

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Named Entities

  • Vicki

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixelated person
  • green text Vicki
  • stylized O icon
  • closed eye grayscale portrait

Preprocessing Notes

  • low resolution
  • heavy pixelation

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
  • grayscale
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • Vicki

Visually Supported Entities

  • Vicki

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • dark hair
  • closed eye
  • green text
  • blocky font
  • stylized O
  • outdoor 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
20080125100219714183113
Archive entry
20080125100219714183113.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 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#20080125100219714183113.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080125100219714183113.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016