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Pixelated static image of a person with long dark hair, wearing dark clothing, against a light gray background with a small blue rectangular shape on the right.

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Pixelated static image of a person with long dark hair, wearing dark clothing, against a light gray background with a small blue rectangular shape on the right.

Pixelated static image of a person with long dark hair, wearing dark clothing, against a light gray background with a small blue rectangular shape on the right. 48×48 GIF AIM budd…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered subject
  • minimal background
  • small blue shape on right

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image shows a person with long dark hair extending past shoulders, wearing dark clothing. The face is centered with closed eyes, light skin tone, and a bright pixelated area over the nose and mouth. Background is light gray with a small blue rectangular shape on the right side. Hair appears to be straight and flows over the shoulders. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation across all elements.

Description

Pixelated static image of a person with long dark hair, wearing dark clothing, against a light gray background with a small blue rectangular shape on the right.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200811111253061292333651

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person long dark hair closed eyes
  • pixelated face light gray background
  • blue shape right side
  • dark clothing light skin tone

Preprocessing Notes

  • low-resolution pixelation affects all visual elements

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains era and collection hints but no pixel-confirmed identity

Wordwall

  • long dark hair
  • closed eyes
  • light skin tone
  • dark clothing
  • light gray background
  • small blue shape
  • pixelated
  • centered face
  • bright pixelated nose/mouth
  • straight hair

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200811111253061292333651
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
2.3 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ff/ff5a4c67ae64683a1ccd228a00a8e72857e65e484401fbe2460c383e1f9950dc.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC
Archive ID
ff5a4c67ae64683a
SHA-256
ff5a4c67ae64683a1ccd228a00a8e72857e65e484401fbe2460c383e1f9950dc
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 10, 2026 at 16:35 UTC
Run
1281
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000551

OpenAI category scores

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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
0.185467

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated static image of a person with long dark hair, wearing dark clothing, against a light gray background with a small blue rectangular shape on the right.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 08:19 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,172 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,092, response 693

Review tags

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

Colors

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

Composition

  • centered subject
  • minimal background
  • small blue shape on right

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image shows a person with long dark hair extending past shoulders, wearing dark clothing. The face is centered with closed eyes, light skin tone, and a bright pixelated area over the nose and mouth. Background is light gray with a small blue rectangular shape on the right side. Hair appears to be straight and flows over the shoulders. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation across all elements.

Description

Pixelated static image of a person with long dark hair, wearing dark clothing, against a light gray background with a small blue rectangular shape on the right.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200811111253061292333651

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person long dark hair closed eyes
  • pixelated face light gray background
  • blue shape right side
  • dark clothing light skin tone

Objects

  • blue shape

Preprocessing Notes

  • low-resolution pixelation affects all visual elements

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains era and collection hints but no pixel-confirmed identity

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

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  • closed eyes
  • light skin tone
  • dark clothing
  • light gray background
  • small blue shape
  • pixelated
  • centered face
  • bright pixelated nose/mouth
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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
200811111253061292333651
Archive entry
200811111253061292333651.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#200811111253061292333651.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200811111253061292333651.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016