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Pixelated image of a person with long dark hair wearing sunglasses and a dark jacket over a light blue shirt, holding a white object near their face.

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Pixelated image of a person with long dark hair wearing sunglasses and a dark jacket over a light blue shirt, holding a white object near their face.

Pixelated image of a person with long dark hair wearing sunglasses and a dark jacket over a light blue shirt, holding a white object near their face. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • person centered
  • background with blue tones

Dense Caption

Pixelated image shows a person with long dark hair, wearing dark sunglasses, a dark jacket over a light blue shirt. The person holds a white object near their face. Background has light and dark blue tones. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance with visible pixelation. No text is visible in the image. The person's expression appears neutral. The white object held near the face is indistinct but appears to be a small item.

Description

Pixelated image of a person with long dark hair wearing sunglasses and a dark jacket over a light blue shirt, holding a white object near their face.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20070820160332874306180

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person with sunglasses holding white object
  • pixelated person with long hair
  • dark jacket light blue shirt
  • low resolution image with blue background

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution

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

  • long dark hair
  • sunglasses
  • dark jacket
  • light blue shirt
  • white object
  • pixelated
  • low resolution
  • neutral expression
  • light blue background
  • dark blue background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070820160332874306180
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 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/fb/fb10ed1e04b7614954a7573c7061c7c427aeb50076be09398beb4157b0582e69.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC
Archive ID
fb10ed1e04b76149
SHA-256
fb10ed1e04b7614954a7573c7061c7c427aeb50076be09398beb4157b0582e69
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
July 30, 2026 at 12:29 UTC
Run
1249
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001149

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:08 UTC
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1140
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Overall label
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Pixelated image of a person with long dark hair wearing sunglasses and a dark jacket over a light blue shirt, holding a white object near their face.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 02:53 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,240 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,091, response 719

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • dark brown (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • white object (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding

Colors

  • dark brown
  • black
  • light blue
  • white
  • light gray
  • dark blue

Composition

  • person centered
  • background with blue tones

Dense Caption

Pixelated image shows a person with long dark hair, wearing dark sunglasses, a dark jacket over a light blue shirt. The person holds a white object near their face. Background has light and dark blue tones. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance with visible pixelation. No text is visible in the image. The person's expression appears neutral. The white object held near the face is indistinct but appears to be a small item.

Description

Pixelated image of a person with long dark hair wearing sunglasses and a dark jacket over a light blue shirt, holding a white object near their face.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20070820160332874306180

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person with sunglasses holding white object
  • pixelated person with long hair
  • dark jacket light blue shirt
  • low resolution image with blue background

Objects

  • white object

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution

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

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • long dark hair
  • sunglasses
  • dark jacket
  • light blue shirt
  • white object
  • pixelated
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  • neutral expression
  • light blue background
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 12:23 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
20070820160332874306180
Archive entry
20070820160332874306180.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 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#20070820160332874306180.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070820160332874306180.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016