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Pixelated image of a person with dark hair wearing a checkered shirt, set against a blurred background.

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Pixelated image of a person with dark hair wearing a checkered shirt, set against a blurred background.

Pixelated image of a person with dark hair wearing a checkered shirt, set against a blurred background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Ico…

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered figure
  • cropped to torso and head

Dense Caption

The icon shows a pixelated figure with short dark hair and light skin. The figure wears a white-and-blue checkered shirt. Background elements include brown tones on the left and right edges, with lighter areas suggesting an indoor setting. Pixelation obscures fine details but preserves overall shape and color distribution.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with dark hair wearing a checkered shirt, set against a blurred 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: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200909142135051355875004

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person dark hair checkered shirt
  • pixelated figure brown background
  • white blue checkered shirt

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original dimensions

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

Wordwall

  • dark hair
  • light skin
  • checkered shirt
  • white-and-blue
  • brown background
  • pixelated

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200909142135051355875004
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.7 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/d7/d7ff4108b4328ff0ca46e50a325a7609596e9fae6e6885c07b22c838288e08c5.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 UTC
Archive ID
d7ff4108b4328ff0
SHA-256
d7ff4108b4328ff0ca46e50a325a7609596e9fae6e6885c07b22c838288e08c5
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 13, 2026 at 12:19 UTC
Run
1287
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001163

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:49 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image of a person with dark hair wearing a checkered shirt, set against a blurred background.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 17:55 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,739 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,095, response 620

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • brown
  • white
  • blue
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • centered figure
  • cropped to torso and head

Dense Caption

The icon shows a pixelated figure with short dark hair and light skin. The figure wears a white-and-blue checkered shirt. Background elements include brown tones on the left and right edges, with lighter areas suggesting an indoor setting. Pixelation obscures fine details but preserves overall shape and color distribution.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with dark hair wearing a checkered shirt, set against a blurred 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: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200909142135051355875004

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person dark hair checkered shirt
  • pixelated figure brown background
  • white blue checkered shirt

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original dimensions

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
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • dark hair
  • light skin
  • checkered shirt
  • white-and-blue
  • brown background
  • pixelated
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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
200909142135051355875004
Archive entry
200909142135051355875004.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 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#200909142135051355875004.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200909142135051355875004.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016