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Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with long dark hair wearing a high-collared garment, set against a light background.

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Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with long dark hair wearing a high-collared garment, set against a light background.

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered subject
  • chest-up framing
  • no background details

Dense Caption

Monochrome 8-bit style icon showing a figure from the chest up. The subject has shoulder-length straight dark hair parted in the middle, covering both sides of the face. Facial features include visible eyes, nose, and mouth with a neutral expression. The person wears a high-collared garment that appears to be dark-colored fabric. Background consists of light gray pixels without distinct shapes or patterns. Image exhibits heavy pixelation typical of low-resolution digital art from early 2000s instant messaging platforms.

Description

  • Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with long dark hair wearing a high-collared garment, set against a light background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • celebrities

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • black-and-white pixel art person
  • long hair high collar neutral expression
  • chest-up monochrome icon
  • pixelated figure with dark clothing

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original resolution

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

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • black-and-white
  • pixelated
  • long hair
  • high collar
  • neutral expression
  • chest-up view
  • light background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071023235343162065873
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/e8/e8b46a118e9a73b31f08a4a47da3c92ca5756132eb0c5839eefcb1367b22fe33.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 UTC
Archive ID
e8b46a118e9a73b3
SHA-256
e8b46a118e9a73b31f08a4a47da3c92ca5756132eb0c5839eefcb1367b22fe33
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
0.124149

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.875851onnx/unsafe0.124149onnx/nsfw0.078997onnx/nsfl0.045152
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Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with long dark hair wearing a high-collared garment, set against a light background.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 12:23 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,533 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,091, response 659

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • monochrome (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • centered subject
  • chest-up framing
  • no background details

Dense Caption

Monochrome 8-bit style icon showing a figure from the chest up. The subject has shoulder-length straight dark hair parted in the middle, covering both sides of the face. Facial features include visible eyes, nose, and mouth with a neutral expression. The person wears a high-collared garment that appears to be dark-colored fabric. Background consists of light gray pixels without distinct shapes or patterns. Image exhibits heavy pixelation typical of low-resolution digital art from early 2000s instant messaging platforms.

Description

  • Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with long dark hair wearing a high-collared garment, set against a light background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • celebrities

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • black-and-white pixel art person
  • long hair high collar neutral expression
  • chest-up monochrome icon
  • pixelated figure with dark clothing

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original resolution

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

  • pixel art
  • monochrome
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • black-and-white
  • pixelated
  • long hair
  • high collar
  • neutral expression
  • chest-up view
  • light background
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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
20071023235343162065873
Archive entry
20071023235343162065873.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 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#20071023235343162065873.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071023235343162065873.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016