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Pixelated static image of a person with dark hair and a light-colored garment, partially obscured by a large, light-toned object on the left side.

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Pixelated static image of a person with dark hair and a light-colored garment, partially obscured by a large, light-toned object on the left side.

Pixelated static image of a person with dark hair and a light-colored garment, partially obscured by a large, light-toned object on the left side. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from In…

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Source terms

Composition

  • partially obscured
  • left-side object

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image shows a person with dark hair and a light-colored garment. A large, light-toned object (possibly a book or tablet) is positioned on the left side, partially obscuring the person. The background is dark with indistinct light and dark areas. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation. No text is visible. The person's face is partially visible with dark hair and a light-colored garment. The object on the left is light-toned with a slightly curved edge. The background contains dark and light areas with no distinct shapes. The overall image quality is low with pixelation.

Description

Pixelated static image of a person with dark hair and a light-colored garment, partially obscured by a large, light-toned object on the left side.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person dark hair light garment
  • partially obscured object
  • low resolution pixelated image
  • dark background light object

Wordwall

  • dark hair
  • light-colored garment
  • large light-toned object
  • partially obscured
  • low resolution
  • pixelated
  • dark background
  • no text
  • partially visible face
  • curved edge object

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081226160256262062297
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.7 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/f8/f8acd471a8f10c6ab5c3282e46a8192e60df3113ba266fe13f85ae45da602eb9.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 UTC
Archive ID
f8acd471a8f10c6a
SHA-256
f8acd471a8f10c6ab5c3282e46a8192e60df3113ba266fe13f85ae45da602eb9
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:06 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.076709

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated static image of a person with dark hair and a light-colored garment, partially obscured by a large, light-toned object on the left side.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 15:27 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,306 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,088, response 671

Review tags

  • dark (color, 0.80)
  • light (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • object (subject, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • dark
  • light

Composition

  • partially obscured
  • left-side object

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image shows a person with dark hair and a light-colored garment. A large, light-toned object (possibly a book or tablet) is positioned on the left side, partially obscuring the person. The background is dark with indistinct light and dark areas. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation. No text is visible. The person's face is partially visible with dark hair and a light-colored garment. The object on the left is light-toned with a slightly curved edge. The background contains dark and light areas with no distinct shapes. The overall image quality is low with pixelation.

Description

Pixelated static image of a person with dark hair and a light-colored garment, partially obscured by a large, light-toned object on the left side.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person dark hair light garment
  • partially obscured object
  • low resolution pixelated image
  • dark background light object

Objects

  • object

Style

  • pixelated
  • low resolution

Subjects

  • person
  • object

Wordwall

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  • light-colored garment
  • large light-toned object
  • partially obscured
  • low resolution
  • pixelated
  • dark background
  • no text
  • partially visible face
  • curved edge object
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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
20081226160256262062297
Archive entry
20081226160256262062297.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 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#20081226160256262062297.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081226160256262062297.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016