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Pixelated portrait of a person with dark hair styled upward, wearing a dark top against a muted gray background.

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Pixelated portrait of a person with dark hair styled upward, wearing a dark top against a muted gray background.

Pixelated portrait of a person with dark hair styled upward, wearing a dark top against a muted gray background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • upper body
  • cropped to face and shoulders

Dense Caption

Pixelated portrait of a person with dark brown hair styled upward and slightly tousled. The individual has a light skin tone, dark eyes, and a neutral expression. They wear a dark-colored top with visible collar and shoulder details. The background consists of muted gray and dark tones with subtle light reflections. The image uses a low-resolution pixel art style with visible dithering and blocky color transitions. The composition is a close-up focusing on the upper body and head, cropped to show only the face and shoulders.

Description

  • Pixelated portrait of a person with dark hair styled upward, wearing a dark top against a muted gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200812141033451725458171
  • 2007
  • 2016
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • anime
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive
  • holidays
  • humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200812141033451725458171
  • 2007
  • 2016
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • anime
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive
  • holidays

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated portrait dark brown hair
  • low-resolution neutral expression
  • muted gray background pixel art
  • dark top close-up upper body

Preprocessing Notes

  • low-resolution pixelated image
  • visible dithering
  • blocky color transitions

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200812141033451725458171
  • 2007
  • 2016
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • anime
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive
  • holidays
  • humor

Wordwall

  • dark brown hair
  • light skin tone
  • dark eyes
  • neutral expression
  • dark top
  • muted gray background
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • dithering
  • blocky color transitions
  • close-up
  • upper body
  • cropped to face and shoulders

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200812141033451725458171
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

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
icons/f6/f6823badbf59a13c5cdb12c419fac3bd62c279601d60641ea30358999a0da347.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 UTC
Archive ID
f6823badbf59a13c
SHA-256
f6823badbf59a13c5cdb12c419fac3bd62c279601d60641ea30358999a0da347
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:05 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.081813

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated portrait of a person with dark hair styled upward, wearing a dark top against a muted gray background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 13:42 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,281 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,089, response 856

Review tags

  • dark (color, 0.80)
  • dark brown (color, 0.80)
  • light skin tone (color, 0.80)
  • muted gray (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • dithering (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • dark brown
  • light skin tone
  • dark
  • muted gray

Composition

  • close-up
  • upper body
  • cropped to face and shoulders

Dense Caption

Pixelated portrait of a person with dark brown hair styled upward and slightly tousled. The individual has a light skin tone, dark eyes, and a neutral expression. They wear a dark-colored top with visible collar and shoulder details. The background consists of muted gray and dark tones with subtle light reflections. The image uses a low-resolution pixel art style with visible dithering and blocky color transitions. The composition is a close-up focusing on the upper body and head, cropped to show only the face and shoulders.

Description

  • Pixelated portrait of a person with dark hair styled upward, wearing a dark top against a muted gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200812141033451725458171
  • 2007
  • 2016
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • anime
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive
  • holidays
  • humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200812141033451725458171
  • 2007
  • 2016
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • anime
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive
  • holidays

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • low-resolution neutral expression
  • muted gray background pixel art
  • dark top close-up upper body

Preprocessing Notes

  • low-resolution pixelated image
  • visible dithering
  • blocky color transitions

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • franksicons
  • 200812141033451725458171
  • 2007
  • 2016
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • anime
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive
  • holidays
  • humor

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • dithering

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

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  • light skin tone
  • dark eyes
  • neutral expression
  • dark top
  • muted gray background
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • dithering
  • blocky color transitions
  • close-up
  • upper body
  • cropped to face and shoulders
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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
200812141033451725458171
Archive entry
200812141033451725458171.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 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#200812141033451725458171.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200812141033451725458171.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016