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Pixelated close-up of a person with light brown hair, dark eyes, and a neutral expression wearing a dark red garment against a gray background.

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Pixelated close-up of a person with light brown hair, dark eyes, and a neutral expression wearing a dark red garment against a gray background.

Pixelated close-up of a person with light brown hair, dark eyes, and a neutral expression wearing a dark red garment against a gray background. 48×48 JPG AIM buddy icon from AOL F…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • head and shoulders crop
  • centered subject
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Pixelated close-up of a person with light brown hair, dark eyes, and a neutral expression. The person wears a dark red garment. The background is a solid gray. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance with visible pixelation. The hair is styled with volume on top and longer strands on the sides. The person's mouth is closed with a slight curve. The lighting appears to be even across the face. The image is cropped to show the head and upper shoulders.

Description

Pixelated close-up of a person with light brown hair, dark eyes, and a neutral expression wearing a dark red garment against a gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • alt-text: Author: Sham Shaman; Uploaded By: Sham Shaman; Date: 11
  • category: 24BIT_ Surfer Dude
  • title: Surfer Dude
  • file-name: Dude1
  • collection identity: aol-file-library
  • collection identity: member-created
  • alt-text: 18
  • file-name: 12000
  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2003
  • provenance source-name: AOL File Library AIM Member-Created Buddy Icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2002
  • provenance era: 2002-2003 AOL Member-Created Library
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2003
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim

Metadata Only Entities

  • Sham Shaman
  • Surfer Dude
  • Dude1
  • aol-file-library
  • member-created
  • Blonde man
  • beach bum
  • skater dude
  • Poser 4

Metadata Supported By Image

alt-text: 2002; Keywords: Sham Shaman, Render, AIM, Beach, Character, Grunge, Male, Icon, WWW, Top Pick, Webart, Graphic Arts, FD; Download Count: 267; Blonde man with grunge look could be a surfer, beach bum or skater,

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • light brown hair dark red garment gray background
  • pixelated neutral expression closed mouth
  • low-resolution head and shoulders crop
  • dark brown eyes light brown hair
  • gray background pixelated image
  • dark red garment neutral expression
  • closed mouth dark brown eyes
  • low-resolution blocky image

Preprocessing Notes

  • pixelation
  • low-resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • alt-text: Author: Sham Shaman; Uploaded By: Sham Shaman; Date: 11
  • category: 24BIT_ Surfer Dude
  • title: Surfer Dude
  • file-name: Dude1
  • collection identity: aol-file-library
  • collection identity: member-created
  • alt-text: 18
  • alt-text: 2002; Keywords: Sham Shaman, Render, AIM, Beach, Character, Grunge, Male, Icon, WWW, Top Pick, Webart, Graphic Arts, FD; Download Count: 267; Blonde man with grunge look could be a surfer, beach bum or skater dude. Rendered in Poser 4.
  • file-name: 12000
  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2003
  • provenance source-name: AOL File Library AIM Member-Created Buddy Icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2002
  • provenance era: 2002-2003 AOL Member-Created Library
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2003
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim

Wordwall

  • light brown hair
  • dark eyes
  • neutral expression
  • dark red garment
  • gray background
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • closed mouth
  • even lighting
  • head and shoulders crop

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

AOL File Library AIM Member-Created Buddy Icons

Source title
Surfer Dude
Category
24BIT_ Surfer Dude
Era
2002-2003 AOL Member-Created Library
Observed
July 21, 2026 at 19:27 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
JPG
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.4 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/6d/6dfc020cc75fef7d8b8e8c96a34f5d697828fe73b3129030fe29324e346af508.jpg
Media type
image/jpeg
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 22:21 UTC
Archive ID
6dfc020cc75fef7d
SHA-256
6dfc020cc75fef7d8b8e8c96a34f5d697828fe73b3129030fe29324e346af508
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:52 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.074040

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.925960onnx/unsafe0.074040onnx/nsfw0.042438onnx/nsfl0.031602
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Pixelated close-up of a person with light brown hair, dark eyes, and a neutral expression wearing a dark red garment against a gray background.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 04:49 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
11,070 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,129, response 1,070

Review tags

  • dark brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark red (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • light brown
  • dark red
  • gray
  • dark brown

Composition

  • head and shoulders crop
  • centered subject
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Pixelated close-up of a person with light brown hair, dark eyes, and a neutral expression. The person wears a dark red garment. The background is a solid gray. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance with visible pixelation. The hair is styled with volume on top and longer strands on the sides. The person's mouth is closed with a slight curve. The lighting appears to be even across the face. The image is cropped to show the head and upper shoulders.

Description

Pixelated close-up of a person with light brown hair, dark eyes, and a neutral expression wearing a dark red garment against a gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • alt-text: Author: Sham Shaman; Uploaded By: Sham Shaman; Date: 11
  • category: 24BIT_ Surfer Dude
  • title: Surfer Dude
  • file-name: Dude1
  • collection identity: aol-file-library
  • collection identity: member-created
  • alt-text: 18
  • file-name: 12000
  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2003
  • provenance source-name: AOL File Library AIM Member-Created Buddy Icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2002
  • provenance era: 2002-2003 AOL Member-Created Library
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2003
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim

Metadata Only Entities

  • Sham Shaman
  • Surfer Dude
  • Dude1
  • aol-file-library
  • member-created
  • Blonde man
  • beach bum
  • skater dude
  • Poser 4

Metadata Supported By Image

alt-text: 2002; Keywords: Sham Shaman, Render, AIM, Beach, Character, Grunge, Male, Icon, WWW, Top Pick, Webart, Graphic Arts, FD; Download Count: 267; Blonde man with grunge look could be a surfer, beach bum or skater,

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • light brown hair dark red garment gray background
  • pixelated neutral expression closed mouth
  • low-resolution head and shoulders crop
  • dark brown eyes light brown hair
  • gray background pixelated image
  • dark red garment neutral expression
  • closed mouth dark brown eyes
  • low-resolution blocky image

Preprocessing Notes

  • pixelation
  • low-resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • alt-text: Author: Sham Shaman; Uploaded By: Sham Shaman; Date: 11
  • category: 24BIT_ Surfer Dude
  • title: Surfer Dude
  • file-name: Dude1
  • collection identity: aol-file-library
  • collection identity: member-created
  • alt-text: 18
  • alt-text: 2002; Keywords: Sham Shaman, Render, AIM, Beach, Character, Grunge, Male, Icon, WWW, Top Pick, Webart, Graphic Arts, FD; Download Count: 267; Blonde man with grunge look could be a surfer, beach bum or skater dude. Rendered in Poser 4.
  • file-name: 12000
  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2003
  • provenance source-name: AOL File Library AIM Member-Created Buddy Icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2002
  • provenance era: 2002-2003 AOL Member-Created Library
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2003
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • light brown hair
  • dark eyes
  • neutral expression
  • dark red garment
  • gray background
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • closed mouth
  • even lighting
  • head and shoulders crop
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Full source records (1)

AOL File Library AIM Member-Created Buddy Icons (internet-archive-aol-file-library-member-created-buddy-icons)

Kind
local-directory
Era
2002-2003 AOL Member-Created Library
Type
exact ZIP64 range extraction of the named AIM Member-Created Buddy Icons library with paired AOL info.txt metadata
Category
24BIT_ Surfer Dude
Title
Surfer Dude
Alt
Author: Sham Shaman; Uploaded By: Sham Shaman; Date: 11/18/2002; Keywords: Sham Shaman, Render, AIM, Beach, Character, Grunge, Male, Icon, WWW, Top Pick, Webart, Graphic Arts, FD; Download Count: 267; Blonde man with grunge look could be a surfer, beach bum or skater dude. Rendered in Poser 4.
Archive entry
24BIT_ Surfer Dude/Dude1.jpg
Observed
July 21, 2026 at 19:27 UTC
Rights
member-created artwork under item-specific uploader distribution notices; research/reference only by default
Slice
AOL-hosted member artwork for personal AIM identity, including holidays, flowers, animals, fantasy, flags, places, food, and expressive graphics

Original: https://archive.org/download/aolfile-12000/12000.zip#24BIT_%20Surfer%20Dude%2FDude1.jpg Download: https://archive.org/download/aolfile-12000/12000.zip#24BIT_%20Surfer%20Dude%2FDude1.jpg Page: https://archive.org/details/aolfile-12000