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A pixelated image of a person with dark curly hair, light skin, and a neutral expression, cropped to show the upper chest and shoulders against a blue background.

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A pixelated image of a person with dark curly hair, light skin, and a neutral expression, cropped to show the upper chest and shoulders against a blue background.

A pixelated image of a person with dark curly hair, light skin, and a neutral expression, cropped to show the upper chest and shoulders against a blue background. Animated 50×50 G…

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Style

Mood

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Animation Summary

  • The image shows a static frame with no visible motion changes.

Composition

  • cropped to upper chest and shoulders
  • solid blue background
  • gray overlay on right

Dense Caption

The image shows a person with dark curly hair and light skin, wearing a brown sleeveless top. The background is solid blue. The image is pixelated with visible compression artifacts. The person's expression is neutral with closed lips. The image is cropped to show the upper chest and shoulders. The right side of the image has a gray rectangular overlay. The image appears to be a static frame from an animated sequence.

Description

A pixelated image of a person with dark curly hair, light skin, and a neutral expression, cropped to show the upper chest and shoulders against a blue 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 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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200902211947171922498180

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person dark curly hair neutral expression
  • brown sleeveless top blue background
  • pixelated compression artifacts
  • gray overlay upper chest shoulders

Preprocessing Notes

  • The image contains a gray overlay on the right side, which may be a post-processing artifact.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Wordwall

  • dark curly hair
  • light skin
  • neutral expression
  • brown sleeveless top
  • blue background
  • pixelated
  • compression artifacts
  • gray overlay
  • upper chest
  • shoulders
  • closed lips
  • static frame
  • animated sequence

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200902211947171922498180
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.8 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/e9/e95b22c3d3e60762677b1ef33a15458afcc014d7d3ce05ea7d6ae986ed08429e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 UTC
Archive ID
e95b22c3d3e60762
SHA-256
e95b22c3d3e60762677b1ef33a15458afcc014d7d3ce05ea7d6ae986ed08429e
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
0.114841

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A pixelated image of a person with dark curly hair, light skin, and a neutral expression, cropped to show the upper chest and shoulders against a blue background.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 00:06 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,052 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 824

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light skin (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • compressed (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • The image shows a static frame with no visible motion changes.

Colors

  • brown
  • blue
  • gray
  • light skin

Composition

  • cropped to upper chest and shoulders
  • solid blue background
  • gray overlay on right

Dense Caption

The image shows a person with dark curly hair and light skin, wearing a brown sleeveless top. The background is solid blue. The image is pixelated with visible compression artifacts. The person's expression is neutral with closed lips. The image is cropped to show the upper chest and shoulders. The right side of the image has a gray rectangular overlay. The image appears to be a static frame from an animated sequence.

Description

A pixelated image of a person with dark curly hair, light skin, and a neutral expression, cropped to show the upper chest and shoulders against a blue 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 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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200902211947171922498180

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person dark curly hair neutral expression
  • brown sleeveless top blue background
  • pixelated compression artifacts
  • gray overlay upper chest shoulders

Preprocessing Notes

  • The image contains a gray overlay on the right side, which may be a post-processing artifact.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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

Style

  • pixelated
  • compressed

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

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  • light skin
  • neutral expression
  • brown sleeveless top
  • blue background
  • pixelated
  • compression artifacts
  • gray overlay
  • upper chest
  • shoulders
  • closed lips
  • static frame
  • animated sequence
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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
200902211947171922498180
Archive entry
200902211947171922498180.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#200902211947171922498180.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200902211947171922498180.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016