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Pixelated close-up of a person with short hair, light skin tone, and visible ear in dimly lit indoor setting.

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Pixelated close-up of a person with short hair, light skin tone, and visible ear in dimly lit indoor setting.

Pixelated close-up of a person with short hair, light skin tone, and visible ear in dimly lit indoor setting. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bud…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered subject
  • asymmetrical background elements

Dense Caption

The image is a low-resolution static photograph showing the upper torso and head of an individual. The subject has short dark hair, light brown skin tone, and visible facial features including eyes, nose, mouth, and ears. The person's right hand is raised near their chest with fingers extended in a gesture. Background consists of dark vertical elements on left side and lighter textured surface on right side. Pixelation obscures fine details but reveals no clothing or accessories.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person with short hair, light skin tone, and visible ear in dimly lit indoor setting.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation file-name (gallery): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • observation title (gallery): 20090219170437494589071
  • observation title (gallery): 200902191705122081091292
  • observation file-name (gallery): 20090219170437494589071
  • observation file-name (gallery): 200902191705122081091292

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20090219170437494589071
  • 200902191705122081091292

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person raised hand pixelated
  • light brown skin ear visible
  • dark background light surface
  • hand gesture close-up

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from smaller original

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • short hair
  • light brown skin
  • visible ear
  • right hand raised
  • fingers extended
  • dark background element
  • light textured surface
  • pixelated image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090219170437494589071
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200902191705122081091292
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/dc/dcaa670abfd019030ac00db1cfd00fde3eabfd9c45134c9d513d3157c22a2d82.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 UTC
Archive ID
dcaa670abfd01903
SHA-256
dcaa670abfd019030ac00db1cfd00fde3eabfd9c45134c9d513d3157c22a2d82
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:52 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.113491

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.886509onnx/unsafe0.113491onnx/nsfw0.075217onnx/nsfl0.038274
Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated close-up of a person with short hair, light skin tone, and visible ear in dimly lit indoor setting.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 23:45 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,206 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,132, response 850

Review tags

  • fingers extended (action, 0.80)
  • hand raised near chest (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • tan (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • photographic (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • hand raised near chest
  • fingers extended

Colors

  • brown
  • tan
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered subject
  • asymmetrical background elements

Dense Caption

The image is a low-resolution static photograph showing the upper torso and head of an individual. The subject has short dark hair, light brown skin tone, and visible facial features including eyes, nose, mouth, and ears. The person's right hand is raised near their chest with fingers extended in a gesture. Background consists of dark vertical elements on left side and lighter textured surface on right side. Pixelation obscures fine details but reveals no clothing or accessories.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person with short hair, light skin tone, and visible ear in dimly lit indoor setting.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation file-name (gallery): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • observation title (gallery): 20090219170437494589071
  • observation title (gallery): 200902191705122081091292
  • observation file-name (gallery): 20090219170437494589071
  • observation file-name (gallery): 200902191705122081091292

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20090219170437494589071
  • 200902191705122081091292

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person raised hand pixelated
  • light brown skin ear visible
  • dark background light surface
  • hand gesture close-up

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from smaller original

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Style

  • photographic
  • low-resolution
  • pixelated

Subjects

  • person

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • short hair
  • light brown skin
  • visible ear
  • right hand raised
  • fingers extended
  • dark background element
  • light textured surface
  • pixelated image
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Full source records (2)

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
20090219170437494589071
Archive entry
20090219170437494589071.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 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#20090219170437494589071.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090219170437494589071.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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
200902191705122081091292
Archive entry
200902191705122081091292.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 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#200902191705122081091292.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200902191705122081091292.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016