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A pixelated close-up of a person with light brown hair and glasses, wearing a yellow garment against a dark background.

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A pixelated close-up of a person with light brown hair and glasses, wearing a yellow garment against a dark background.

A pixelated close-up of a person with light brown hair and glasses, wearing a yellow garment against a dark background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered subject
  • dark background

Dense Caption

The image is a static 16x16 pixel icon. It shows the upper face and shoulders of an individual with medium-length curly brown hair. The subject wears thin-framed eyeglasses with white temples. A bright yellow top or shirt is visible, with light reflecting off its surface near the chest area. The background consists of dark brown and black pixels. Pixelation obscures fine details but reveals no text or symbols.

Description

  • A pixelated close-up of a person with light brown hair and glasses, wearing a yellow garment against a dark 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
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080420152311877958824
  • franksicons
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person with glasses yellow clothing brown hair
  • pixelated face dark background
  • eyeglasses yellow shirt close-up
  • brown hair white temples glasses

Preprocessing Notes

  • upscaling detected in source file

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 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

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • brown hair
  • glasses
  • yellow clothing
  • dark background
  • upper face
  • shoulders

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080420152311877958824
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:23 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/e3/e33eed85989acdc2b81390cca2aea1b4e7a6105cf5f09e4e126753b28bbae838.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:23 UTC
Archive ID
e33eed85989acdc2
SHA-256
e33eed85989acdc2b81390cca2aea1b4e7a6105cf5f09e4e126753b28bbae838
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 8, 2026 at 00:38 UTC
Run
1275
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000483

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:55 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
0.172202

OpenAI category scores

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A pixelated close-up of a person with light brown hair and glasses, wearing a yellow garment against a dark background.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 06:34 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
16,853 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,087, response 706

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • clothing (object, 0.80)
  • eyeglasses (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • brown
  • black
  • white
  • yellow
  • orange

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered subject
  • dark background

Dense Caption

The image is a static 16x16 pixel icon. It shows the upper face and shoulders of an individual with medium-length curly brown hair. The subject wears thin-framed eyeglasses with white temples. A bright yellow top or shirt is visible, with light reflecting off its surface near the chest area. The background consists of dark brown and black pixels. Pixelation obscures fine details but reveals no text or symbols.

Description

  • A pixelated close-up of a person with light brown hair and glasses, wearing a yellow garment against a dark 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
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080420152311877958824
  • franksicons
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person with glasses yellow clothing brown hair
  • pixelated face dark background
  • eyeglasses yellow shirt close-up
  • brown hair white temples glasses

Objects

  • eyeglasses
  • clothing

Preprocessing Notes

  • upscaling detected in source file

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 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

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • brown hair
  • glasses
  • yellow clothing
  • dark background
  • upper face
  • shoulders
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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
20080420152311877958824
Archive entry
20080420152311877958824.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:23 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#20080420152311877958824.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080420152311877958824.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016