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Pixelated static image of a person with short dark hair, light skin tone, blue eyes, and a neutral expression wearing a black top with a blue lanyard.

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Pixelated static image of a person with short dark hair, light skin tone, blue eyes, and a neutral expression wearing a black top with a blue lanyard.

Pixelated static image of a person with short dark hair, light skin tone, blue eyes, and a neutral expression wearing a black top with a blue lanyard. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon fro…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • head-and-shoulders crop
  • centered subject
  • plain background

Dense Caption

Static pixelated portrait shows a person from shoulders up against white background. Short dark brown hair styled upward. Light skin tone with visible facial features: eyebrows, nose, mouth. Blue eyes look slightly left of center. Black clothing collar visible below neck. Thin light blue lanyard around neck. Pixelation creates blocky appearance across all elements.

Description

Pixelated static image of a person with short dark hair, light skin tone, blue eyes, and a neutral expression wearing a black top with a blue lanyard.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person blue eyes black top
  • short dark hair neutral expression lanyard
  • light skin tone white background pixel art
  • blue lanyard head-and-shoulders crop

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected in static frame

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

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • short dark hair
  • light skin tone
  • blue eyes
  • neutral expression
  • black top
  • light blue lanyard
  • white background
  • pixelated portrait

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080525104648233558303
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:27 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.1 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/e8/e876bc0a58066082d3fb9de8e8fc808e8d4f56c2190abc07fe74eb73d88d2b1c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:27 UTC
Archive ID
e876bc0a58066082
SHA-256
e876bc0a58066082d3fb9de8e8fc808e8d4f56c2190abc07fe74eb73d88d2b1c
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:58 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.062297

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated static image of a person with short dark hair, light skin tone, blue eyes, and a neutral expression wearing a black top with a blue lanyard.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 19:08 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
16,665 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,089, response 728

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • dark brown (color, 0.80)
  • light skin tone (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • lanyard (object, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • static image (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • dark brown
  • light skin tone
  • blue
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • head-and-shoulders crop
  • centered subject
  • plain background

Dense Caption

Static pixelated portrait shows a person from shoulders up against white background. Short dark brown hair styled upward. Light skin tone with visible facial features: eyebrows, nose, mouth. Blue eyes look slightly left of center. Black clothing collar visible below neck. Thin light blue lanyard around neck. Pixelation creates blocky appearance across all elements.

Description

Pixelated static image of a person with short dark hair, light skin tone, blue eyes, and a neutral expression wearing a black top with a blue lanyard.

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

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person blue eyes black top
  • short dark hair neutral expression lanyard
  • light skin tone white background pixel art
  • blue lanyard head-and-shoulders crop

Objects

  • lanyard

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected in static frame

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixel art
  • static image

Subjects

  • person

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • short dark hair
  • light skin tone
  • blue eyes
  • neutral expression
  • black top
  • light blue lanyard
  • white background
  • pixelated portrait
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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
20080525104648233558303
Archive entry
20080525104648233558303.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:27 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#20080525104648233558303.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080525104648233558303.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016