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A pixelated close-up of a person with short dark hair wearing a dark top, holding a green and white object near their face against a blurred background.

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A pixelated close-up of a person with short dark hair wearing a dark top, holding a green and white object near their face against a blurred background.

A pixelated close-up of a person with short dark hair wearing a dark top, holding a green and white object near their face against a blurred background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon f…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • tight crop
  • close-up
  • blurred background

Dense Caption

Pixelated close-up of a person with short dark hair, light brown skin tone, and a dark top. The person holds a green and white object near their left side, partially visible. Background includes blurred green and white elements. Image has low resolution with visible pixelation. No text or symbols are present. The person's expression appears neutral. The object held is indistinct but has a curved shape with green and white coloring. The background contains blurred green foliage and a light-colored structure. The image is cropped tightly around the upper body and head.

Description

A pixelated close-up of a person with short dark hair wearing a dark top, holding a green and white object near their face 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: 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

  • celebrities

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person holding green and white object
  • pixelated close-up
  • low resolution image
  • neutral expression
  • blurred background
  • dark top
  • short dark hair
  • brown skin tone

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

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  • pixelated
  • close-up
  • short dark hair
  • light brown skin
  • dark top
  • green and white object
  • blurred background
  • low resolution
  • neutral expression
  • indistinct object

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070808131307204946533
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 UTC

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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/d8/d8490496cf8edbc3acaf74a647df9c89871832992583bc444942c03d482eeeaa.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 UTC
Archive ID
d8490496cf8edbc3
SHA-256
d8490496cf8edbc3acaf74a647df9c89871832992583bc444942c03d482eeeaa
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:49 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.088044

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

A pixelated close-up of a person with short dark hair wearing a dark top, holding a green and white object near their face against a blurred background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 20:47 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,786 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,087, response 768

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  • green and white object (object, 0.80)
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  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding

Colors

  • brown
  • green
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • tight crop
  • close-up
  • blurred background

Dense Caption

Pixelated close-up of a person with short dark hair, light brown skin tone, and a dark top. The person holds a green and white object near their left side, partially visible. Background includes blurred green and white elements. Image has low resolution with visible pixelation. No text or symbols are present. The person's expression appears neutral. The object held is indistinct but has a curved shape with green and white coloring. The background contains blurred green foliage and a light-colored structure. The image is cropped tightly around the upper body and head.

Description

A pixelated close-up of a person with short dark hair wearing a dark top, holding a green and white object near their face 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: 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

  • celebrities

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person holding green and white object
  • pixelated close-up
  • low resolution image
  • neutral expression
  • blurred background
  • dark top
  • short dark hair
  • brown skin tone

Objects

  • green and white object

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

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  • pixelated
  • low resolution

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  • short dark hair
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  • dark top
  • green and white object
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 10:52 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
20070808131307204946533
Archive entry
20070808131307204946533.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 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#20070808131307204946533.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070808131307204946533.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016