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Pixelated close-up of a person in dark clothing with a light-colored collar, set against a blurred background with vertical color bands.

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Pixelated close-up of a person in dark clothing with a light-colored collar, set against a blurred background with vertical color bands.

Pixelated close-up of a person in dark clothing with a light-colored collar, set against a blurred background with vertical color bands. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Arc…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • vertical background bands

Dense Caption

The image is a pixelated close-up of a person's upper body and head. The person has dark hair and is wearing a dark blue or black jacket with a light-colored collar. The background consists of blurred vertical bands of light beige, light blue, and green. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics. No text or symbols are visible on the person or in the background. The person's face is partially visible, showing a neutral expression with closed eyes. The lighting appears to be soft and even.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person in dark clothing with a light-colored collar, set against a blurred background with vertical color bands.

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 topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person dark jacket
  • close-up neutral expression
  • beige blue green background
  • low-resolution blocky image

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • close-up
  • dark hair
  • dark jacket
  • light collar
  • beige background
  • blue background
  • green background
  • neutral expression
  • closed eyes
  • soft lighting
  • low-resolution
  • blocky appearance

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708061338031791731772
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/d5/d5969d7dee2d2843c8b72975df14aca0bb950d520e18689bafd94ce21345aad8.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC
Archive ID
d5969d7dee2d2843
SHA-256
d5969d7dee2d2843c8b72975df14aca0bb950d520e18689bafd94ce21345aad8
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 12, 2026 at 04:21 UTC
Run
1284
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.016223

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:48 UTC
Run
1140
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Overall label
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Overall score
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated close-up of a person in dark clothing with a light-colored collar, set against a blurred background with vertical color bands.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 19:44 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,161 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,088, response 666

Review tags

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  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • light beige (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • dark blue
  • black
  • light beige
  • light blue
  • green
  • brown

Composition

  • close-up
  • vertical background bands

Dense Caption

The image is a pixelated close-up of a person's upper body and head. The person has dark hair and is wearing a dark blue or black jacket with a light-colored collar. The background consists of blurred vertical bands of light beige, light blue, and green. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics. No text or symbols are visible on the person or in the background. The person's face is partially visible, showing a neutral expression with closed eyes. The lighting appears to be soft and even.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person in dark clothing with a light-colored collar, set against a blurred background with vertical color bands.

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 topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person dark jacket
  • close-up neutral expression
  • beige blue green background
  • low-resolution blocky image

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • close-up
  • dark hair
  • dark jacket
  • light collar
  • beige background
  • blue background
  • green background
  • neutral expression
  • closed eyes
  • soft lighting
  • low-resolution
  • blocky appearance
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 10:35 UTC
Run
52
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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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
200708061338031791731772
Archive entry
200708061338031791731772.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 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#200708061338031791731772.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708061338031791731772.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016