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Pixelated close-up of a person with light brown hair, wearing a dark top and light gray garment, looking slightly upward with a neutral expression.

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Pixelated close-up of a person with light brown hair, wearing a dark top and light gray garment, looking slightly upward with a neutral expression.

Pixelated close-up of a person with light brown hair, wearing a dark top and light gray garment, looking slightly upward with a neutral expression. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from I…

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Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • indistinct background

Dense Caption

Pixelated close-up of a person with light brown hair, wearing a dark top and light gray garment, looking slightly upward with a neutral expression. The person's right eye is visible with a white reflection, and the left eye is partially visible. The background is indistinct with brown and gray tones. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital imagery.

Description

Pixelated close-up of a person with light brown hair, wearing a dark top and light gray garment, looking slightly upward with a neutral expression.

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
  • 200904211539552124802317

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • light brown hair person
  • dark top light gray garment
  • neutral expression eye reflection
  • low-resolution pixelated close-up
  • brown gray background tones
  • indistinct background close-up
  • white eye reflection
  • blocky appearance

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or cropped from a larger source

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
  • dark top
  • light gray garment
  • right eye visible
  • white eye reflection
  • neutral expression
  • low-resolution
  • blocky appearance
  • indistinct background
  • brown tones
  • gray tones

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200904211539552124802317
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 UTC
Archive ID
ebd84418899a507d
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (3)
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Assessed
August 19, 2026 at 07:39 UTC
Run
1312
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 22:05 UTC
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1162
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:00 UTC
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OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated close-up of a person with light brown hair, wearing a dark top and light gray garment, looking slightly upward with a neutral expression.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 07:31 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,295 ms
Tokens
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  • gray (color, 0.80)
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  • white (color, 0.80)
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  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • light brown
  • dark
  • light gray
  • white
  • brown
  • gray

Composition

  • close-up
  • indistinct background

Dense Caption

Pixelated close-up of a person with light brown hair, wearing a dark top and light gray garment, looking slightly upward with a neutral expression. The person's right eye is visible with a white reflection, and the left eye is partially visible. The background is indistinct with brown and gray tones. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital imagery.

Description

Pixelated close-up of a person with light brown hair, wearing a dark top and light gray garment, looking slightly upward with a neutral expression.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
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Mood

  • neutral

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  • dark top light gray garment
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Preprocessing Notes

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Source Metadata Interpretation

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Subjects

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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
200904211539552124802317
Archive entry
200904211539552124802317.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 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#200904211539552124802317.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200904211539552124802317.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016