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Pixelated image of a person wearing a red cap and dark jacket, with a blurred background and visible pixelation artifacts.

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Pixelated image of a person wearing a red cap and dark jacket, with a blurred background and visible pixelation artifacts.

Pixelated image of a person wearing a red cap and dark jacket, with a blurred background and visible pixelation artifacts. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIco…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • cropped
  • off-center
  • close-up

Dense Caption

The image is a low-resolution, pixelated static image showing a person wearing a red cap and a dark blue jacket with a hood. The person has long dark hair and is positioned slightly off-center to the right. The background is a blurred brownish tone on the left side and a lighter pinkish tone on the right side. The image exhibits significant pixelation and compression artifacts, with no visible text or distinct symbols. The person's face is partially visible, showing a neutral expression with closed eyes. The overall composition is cropped closely around the upper body and head.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person wearing a red cap and dark jacket, with a blurred background and visible pixelation artifacts.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red cap dark blue jacket
  • pixelated person closed eyes
  • blurred background brown pink
  • cropped composition neutral expression

Preprocessing Notes

  • pixelation artifacts
  • compression artifacts

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

  • red cap
  • dark blue jacket
  • long dark hair
  • neutral expression
  • closed eyes
  • blurred background
  • pixelated
  • brown background
  • pink background
  • cropped composition

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090218134337998758787
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ed/ed2191f4e02b0e7b8e6501ec89fd599e0eda071a984ec9159e09332487b26469.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 UTC
Archive ID
ed2191f4e02b0e7b
SHA-256
ed2191f4e02b0e7b8e6501ec89fd599e0eda071a984ec9159e09332487b26469
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:00 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.080150

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image of a person wearing a red cap and dark jacket, with a blurred background and visible pixelation artifacts.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 23:34 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,656 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,091, response 748

Review tags

  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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  • static (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • dark blue
  • brown
  • pink

Composition

  • cropped
  • off-center
  • close-up

Dense Caption

The image is a low-resolution, pixelated static image showing a person wearing a red cap and a dark blue jacket with a hood. The person has long dark hair and is positioned slightly off-center to the right. The background is a blurred brownish tone on the left side and a lighter pinkish tone on the right side. The image exhibits significant pixelation and compression artifacts, with no visible text or distinct symbols. The person's face is partially visible, showing a neutral expression with closed eyes. The overall composition is cropped closely around the upper body and head.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person wearing a red cap and dark jacket, with a blurred background and visible pixelation artifacts.

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

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red cap dark blue jacket
  • pixelated person closed eyes
  • blurred background brown pink
  • cropped composition neutral expression

Preprocessing Notes

  • pixelation artifacts
  • compression artifacts

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • static

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • red cap
  • dark blue jacket
  • long dark hair
  • neutral expression
  • closed eyes
  • blurred background
  • pixelated
  • brown background
  • pink background
  • cropped composition
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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
20090218134337998758787
Archive entry
20090218134337998758787.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#20090218134337998758787.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090218134337998758787.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016