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Four pixelated portrait show a person with brown hair in different poses and backgrounds, including green and white backdrops

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Four pixelated portrait show a person with brown hair in different poses and backgrounds, including green and white backdrops

Four pixelated portrait show a person with brown hair in different poses and backgrounds, including green and white backdrops. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Arch…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Actions

  • closed eyes

Composition

  • four
  • head-and-shoulders crop

Dense Caption

Top-left panel: person with dark brown hair, light skin, blue eyes; mouth slightly open, hand near face, orange background. Top-right panel: same person smiling broadly, wearing white shirt, light gray background. Bottom-left panel: person with lighter brown hair, closed eyes, pink and blue clothing, green background. Bottom-right panel: person with light brown hair, squinting smile, black clothing, green background. All panels have low-resolution pixelation typical of early 2000s digital images.

Description

  • Four pixelated portrait show a person with brown hair in different poses and backgrounds, including green and white backdrops

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown hair person smiling
  • green background pixelated portrait
  • four head shoulders
  • white shirt closed eyes smile

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling detected
  • no matte or border visible
  • quarantined description: Four pixelated portrait panels show a person with brown hair in different poses and backgrounds, including green and white backdrops.
  • quarantined composition: four-panel grid
  • quarantined retrieval: four panel grid head shoulders

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • light skin
  • blue eyes
  • smiling
  • closed eyes
  • green background
  • white shirt
  • pink and blue clothing
  • black clothing
  • pixelated

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200905051435401912828621
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090505143542429671813
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
6.2 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ea/ea59dbb65819736ec908bed80211f11ebc1229b4577c3af259b8fb7adc54de15.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 UTC
Archive ID
ea59dbb65819736e
SHA-256
ea59dbb65819736ec908bed80211f11ebc1229b4577c3af259b8fb7adc54de15
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
September 1, 2026 at 07:57 UTC
Run
15972
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000020

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
August 10, 2026 at 19:26 UTC
Run
1281
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:10 UTC
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107
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Four pixelated portrait show a person with brown hair in different poses and backgrounds, including green and white backdrops

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 08:57 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,752 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,150, response 714

Review tags

  • closed eyes (action, 0.80)
  • hand near face (action, 0.80)
  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • squinting (action, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • light skin (color, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • portrait (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling
  • hand near face
  • squinting
  • closed eyes

Colors

  • brown
  • light skin
  • blue
  • orange
  • white
  • green
  • pink
  • black

Composition

  • four
  • head-and-shoulders crop

Dense Caption

Top-left panel: person with dark brown hair, light skin, blue eyes; mouth slightly open, hand near face, orange background. Top-right panel: same person smiling broadly, wearing white shirt, light gray background. Bottom-left panel: person with lighter brown hair, closed eyes, pink and blue clothing, green background. Bottom-right panel: person with light brown hair, squinting smile, black clothing, green background. All panels have low-resolution pixelation typical of early 2000s digital images.

Description

  • Four pixelated portrait show a person with brown hair in different poses and backgrounds, including green and white backdrops

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • happy
  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown hair person smiling
  • green background pixelated portrait
  • four head shoulders
  • white shirt closed eyes smile

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling detected
  • no matte or border visible
  • quarantined description: Four pixelated portrait panels show a person with brown hair in different poses and backgrounds, including green and white backdrops.
  • quarantined composition: four-panel grid
  • quarantined retrieval: four panel grid head shoulders

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • portrait

Subjects

  • person

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • light skin
  • blue eyes
  • smiling
  • closed eyes
  • green background
  • white shirt
  • pink and blue clothing
  • black clothing
  • pixelated
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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
200905051435401912828621
Archive entry
200905051435401912828621.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 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#200905051435401912828621.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200905051435401912828621.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
20090505143542429671813
Archive entry
20090505143542429671813.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 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#20090505143542429671813.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090505143542429671813.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016