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Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair against black background, wearing dark clothing and light-colored top.

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Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair against black background, wearing dark clothing and light-colored top.

Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair against black background, wearing dark clothing and light-colored top. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sha…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • partial upper body
  • centered subject

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image shows partial upper body of individual with medium-brown skin tone. Dark hair frames face; visible features include eyes, nose, mouth, and part of shoulder. Clothing appears to be dark outer layer over lighter inner garment. Background is solid black. Image has low resolution typical of early 2000s digital art. No text or symbols present.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair against black background, wearing dark clothing and light-colored top.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation file-name (gallery): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • observation title (gallery): 200806242032331539829495
  • observation file-name (gallery): 200806242032331539829495

Metadata Only Entities

  • celebrities

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person dark hair black background
  • medium-brown skin tan clothing
  • low-resolution close-up face
  • dark outer layer light inner garment

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • dark hair
  • medium-brown skin
  • black background
  • dark clothing
  • light-colored top
  • eyes visible
  • nose visible
  • mouth visible

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200806242032331539829495
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:31 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/fd/fd33c951067de3bc0e7a9db5aa8ee8c2e90d9aa15a43b5c4ae22bcda93f9ca36.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:31 UTC
Archive ID
fd33c951067de3bc
SHA-256
fd33c951067de3bc0e7a9db5aa8ee8c2e90d9aa15a43b5c4ae22bcda93f9ca36
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
July 24, 2026 at 17:52 UTC
Run
1187
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.010095

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:09 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair against black background, wearing dark clothing and light-colored top.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 08:23 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,602 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,088, response 686

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • tan (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • brown
  • tan

Composition

  • close-up
  • partial upper body
  • centered subject

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image shows partial upper body of individual with medium-brown skin tone. Dark hair frames face; visible features include eyes, nose, mouth, and part of shoulder. Clothing appears to be dark outer layer over lighter inner garment. Background is solid black. Image has low resolution typical of early 2000s digital art. No text or symbols present.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair against black background, wearing dark clothing and light-colored top.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation file-name (gallery): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • observation title (gallery): 200806242032331539829495
  • observation file-name (gallery): 200806242032331539829495

Metadata Only Entities

  • celebrities

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person dark hair black background
  • medium-brown skin tan clothing
  • low-resolution close-up face
  • dark outer layer light inner garment

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • dark hair
  • medium-brown skin
  • black background
  • dark clothing
  • light-colored top
  • eyes visible
  • nose visible
  • mouth visible
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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
200806242032331539829495
Archive entry
200806242032331539829495.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:31 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#200806242032331539829495.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200806242032331539829495.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016