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Pixelated static image of a person with short dark hair wearing a white top against a light gray background.

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Pixelated static image of a person with short dark hair wearing a white top against a light gray background.

Pixelated static image of a person with short dark hair wearing a white top against a light gray background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Budd…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered face
  • upper body crop
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image shows a person with short dark hair, light skin tone, and a white top. The background is solid light gray. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation. The person's face is centered, with eyes closed or squinting, and a mouth showing teeth. The right side of the face has a lighter pixel pattern. The image is cropped to show the upper body from shoulders up. No text or symbols are visible. The rendering style is blocky with limited color depth.

Description

  • Pixelated static image of a person with short dark hair wearing a white top against a light gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • celebrities

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person smiling white top
  • short dark hair light gray background
  • blocky rendering upper body crop
  • light skin tone teeth visible

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

  • short dark hair
  • light skin tone
  • white top
  • light gray background
  • pixelated
  • eyes closed
  • teeth visible
  • blocky rendering
  • upper body crop
  • solid background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081113223905931672763
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/fe/fef3ea49138405c24558da7dffb4002791b0e9e9c0b9838498082b7c36725514.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC
Archive ID
fef3ea49138405c2
SHA-256
fef3ea49138405c24558da7dffb4002791b0e9e9c0b9838498082b7c36725514
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:10 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.079581

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated static image of a person with short dark hair wearing a white top against a light gray background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 08:41 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,903 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,092, response 718

Review tags

  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • dark brown (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling

Colors

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

Composition

  • centered face
  • upper body crop
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image shows a person with short dark hair, light skin tone, and a white top. The background is solid light gray. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation. The person's face is centered, with eyes closed or squinting, and a mouth showing teeth. The right side of the face has a lighter pixel pattern. The image is cropped to show the upper body from shoulders up. No text or symbols are visible. The rendering style is blocky with limited color depth.

Description

  • Pixelated static image of a person with short dark hair wearing a white top against a light gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • celebrities

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • happy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person smiling white top
  • short dark hair light gray background
  • blocky rendering upper body crop
  • light skin tone teeth visible

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
  • blocky
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • short dark hair
  • light skin tone
  • white top
  • light gray background
  • pixelated
  • eyes closed
  • teeth visible
  • blocky rendering
  • upper body crop
  • solid background
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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
20081113223905931672763
Archive entry
20081113223905931672763.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 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#20081113223905931672763.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081113223905931672763.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016