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Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair and light skin, wearing dark clothing against a dark background.

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Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair and light skin, wearing dark clothing against a dark background.

Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair and light skin, wearing dark clothing against a dark background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bu…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered subject
  • dark background

Dense Caption

Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair and light skin, wearing dark clothing against a dark background. The person's face is partially visible with closed eyes and a neutral expression. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation. The background is predominantly dark with subtle variations in shading. The person's hair appears to be long and dark, framing the face. The lighting is dim, creating a contrast between the face and the background.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair and light skin, wearing dark clothing 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: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person close-up
  • dark hair light skin
  • closed eyes neutral expression
  • low resolution dark background

Preprocessing Notes

  • pixelation
  • low resolution

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

Visually Supported Entities

  • celebrities

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • close-up
  • dark hair
  • light skin
  • dark clothing
  • closed eyes
  • neutral expression
  • low resolution
  • dim lighting
  • subtle shading

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090526185343498734675
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:58 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200905261853492141292231
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:58 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/e9/e94c3e964a8cc2ec90876bb0ae790bdfd72e9ec739d058368b0a8e50b4958a1e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:58 UTC
Archive ID
e94c3e964a8cc2ec
SHA-256
e94c3e964a8cc2ec90876bb0ae790bdfd72e9ec739d058368b0a8e50b4958a1e
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
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
0.083998

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair and light skin, wearing dark clothing against a dark background.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 10:47 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,914 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,135, response 698

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • dark
  • light
  • brown
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered subject
  • dark background

Dense Caption

Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair and light skin, wearing dark clothing against a dark background. The person's face is partially visible with closed eyes and a neutral expression. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation. The background is predominantly dark with subtle variations in shading. The person's hair appears to be long and dark, framing the face. The lighting is dim, creating a contrast between the face and the background.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair and light skin, wearing dark clothing 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: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person close-up
  • dark hair light skin
  • closed eyes neutral expression
  • low resolution dark background

Preprocessing Notes

  • pixelation
  • low resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
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  • 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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Visually Supported Entities

  • celebrities

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • close-up
  • dark hair
  • light skin
  • dark clothing
  • closed eyes
  • neutral expression
  • low resolution
  • dim lighting
  • subtle shading
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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
20090526185343498734675
Archive entry
20090526185343498734675.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:58 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#20090526185343498734675.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090526185343498734675.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
200905261853492141292231
Archive entry
200905261853492141292231.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:58 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#200905261853492141292231.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200905261853492141292231.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016