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Pixelated static image of a person with light brown hair wearing a white shirt and blue checkered neckerchief against a brown background.

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Pixelated static image of a person with light brown hair wearing a white shirt and blue checkered neckerchief against a brown background.

Pixelated static image of a person with light brown hair wearing a white shirt and blue checkered neckerchief against a brown background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Ar…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • upper body
  • partial face
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image shows a person with light brown hair styled in a short cut, wearing a white shirt with a blue and white checkered neckerchief. The background is a solid brown color. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation across all elements. The person's face is partially visible with light skin tone, showing eyes, nose, and mouth. The image appears cropped to show only the upper body and head. The pixelation suggests this is a low-resolution digital image, likely from an older online service.

Description

  • Pixelated static image of a person with light brown hair wearing a white shirt and blue checkered neckerchief against a brown 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: 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
  • 201007121853161058854880

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • light brown hair white shirt blue checkered neckerchief
  • pixelated static image brown background
  • low resolution upper body person
  • blue checkered neckerchief white shirt light brown hair

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be a low-resolution digital capture with heavy pixelation

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

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  • light brown hair
  • white shirt
  • blue checkered neckerchief
  • brown background
  • low resolution
  • pixelated
  • partial face
  • upper body
  • light skin tone
  • static image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
201007121853161058854880
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:06 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ea/eac171a543d450942668342dcc3e4f732f70e63dcf5d0db2dbb2c2a5cdd94709.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:06 UTC
Archive ID
eac171a543d45094
SHA-256
eac171a543d450942668342dcc3e4f732f70e63dcf5d0db2dbb2c2a5cdd94709
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:48 UTC
Run
1140
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.085250

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated static image of a person with light brown hair wearing a white shirt and blue checkered neckerchief against a brown background.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 19:57 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,044 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,092, response 823

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neckerchief (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • light brown
  • white
  • blue
  • brown

Composition

  • upper body
  • partial face
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image shows a person with light brown hair styled in a short cut, wearing a white shirt with a blue and white checkered neckerchief. The background is a solid brown color. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation across all elements. The person's face is partially visible with light skin tone, showing eyes, nose, and mouth. The image appears cropped to show only the upper body and head. The pixelation suggests this is a low-resolution digital image, likely from an older online service.

Description

  • Pixelated static image of a person with light brown hair wearing a white shirt and blue checkered neckerchief against a brown 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: 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
  • 201007121853161058854880

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • light brown hair white shirt blue checkered neckerchief
  • pixelated static image brown background
  • low resolution upper body person
  • blue checkered neckerchief white shirt light brown hair

Objects

  • neckerchief

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be a low-resolution digital capture with heavy pixelation

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low resolution
  • static

Subjects

  • person

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  • white shirt
  • blue checkered neckerchief
  • brown background
  • low resolution
  • pixelated
  • partial face
  • upper body
  • light skin tone
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 22:56 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
Raw JSON
Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
201007121853161058854880
Archive entry
201007121853161058854880.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:06 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#201007121853161058854880.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#201007121853161058854880.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016