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A pixelated close-up of a person's face with light skin tone, dark hair, and a neutral expression, set against a blurred background with blue and brown tones.

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A pixelated close-up of a person's face with light skin tone, dark hair, and a neutral expression, set against a blurred background with blue and brown tones.

A pixelated close-up of a person's face with light skin tone, dark hair, and a neutral expression, set against a blurred background with blue and brown tones. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered face
  • blurred background

Dense Caption

The image is a highly pixelated close-up of a person's face. The person has light skin tone, dark hair, and visible eyes, nose, and mouth. The eyes appear to be looking slightly upward and to the right. The background is blurred with blue and brown tones. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics. No text or additional objects are visible.

Description

A pixelated close-up of a person's face with light skin tone, dark hair, and a neutral expression, set against a blurred background with blue and brown tones.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2001
  • provenance era: 2004
  • provenance source-name: Wayback GeoCities Newsies AIM Icon GIF Captures
  • provenance cultural-slice: archived Newsies fan-made AIM icon GIFs from a GeoCities/OoCities install-link page
  • provenance topic-coverage: character icons
  • provenance era: Early-2000s Musical / Movie Fandom
  • provenance topic-coverage: fan sites
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance topic-coverage: GeoCities

Metadata Only Entities

  • Newsies

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: aim-buddy-icon

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated face
  • light skin tone
  • dark hair
  • blue background
  • brown background
  • neutral expression
  • low-resolution
  • blocky appearance

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be upscaled or enlarged from a smaller original

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2001
  • provenance era: 2004
  • provenance source-name: Wayback GeoCities Newsies AIM Icon GIF Captures
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim-buddy-icon
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM install links
  • provenance cultural-slice: archived Newsies fan-made AIM icon GIFs from a GeoCities/OoCities install-link page
  • provenance topic-coverage: character icons
  • provenance era: Early-2000s Musical / Movie Fandom
  • provenance topic-coverage: fan sites
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance topic-coverage: GeoCities

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  • pixelated
  • close-up
  • light skin tone
  • dark hair
  • neutral expression
  • blue background
  • brown background
  • blocky appearance
  • low-resolution
  • visible eyes
  • visible nose
  • visible mouth

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Added to archive
July 10, 2026

Wayback GeoCities Newsies AIM Icon GIF Captures

Source title
aimboots2
Category
lteonga / nmultimedia
Era
Early-2000s Musical / Movie Fandom
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 04:33 UTC

Original record Source download

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.3 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 10, 2026
Relative path
icons/b2/b2238fe7f82a1be6e5057475893e445ad89de5c244214e87f2dceeebfc33cc74.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:33 UTC
Archive ID
b2238fe7f82a1be6
SHA-256
b2238fe7f82a1be6e5057475893e445ad89de5c244214e87f2dceeebfc33cc74
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:28 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.080130

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.919870onnx/unsafe0.080130onnx/nsfl0.046039onnx/nsfw0.034091
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A pixelated close-up of a person's face with light skin tone, dark hair, and a neutral expression, set against a blurred background with blue and brown tones.

Reviewed
August 23, 2026 at 23:11 UTC
Run
67
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,286 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,056, response 789

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark hair (color, 0.80)
  • light skin tone (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 skin tone
  • dark hair
  • blue
  • brown

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered face
  • blurred background

Dense Caption

The image is a highly pixelated close-up of a person's face. The person has light skin tone, dark hair, and visible eyes, nose, and mouth. The eyes appear to be looking slightly upward and to the right. The background is blurred with blue and brown tones. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics. No text or additional objects are visible.

Description

A pixelated close-up of a person's face with light skin tone, dark hair, and a neutral expression, set against a blurred background with blue and brown tones.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2001
  • provenance era: 2004
  • provenance source-name: Wayback GeoCities Newsies AIM Icon GIF Captures
  • provenance cultural-slice: archived Newsies fan-made AIM icon GIFs from a GeoCities/OoCities install-link page
  • provenance topic-coverage: character icons
  • provenance era: Early-2000s Musical / Movie Fandom
  • provenance topic-coverage: fan sites
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance topic-coverage: GeoCities

Metadata Only Entities

  • Newsies

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: aim-buddy-icon

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated face
  • light skin tone
  • dark hair
  • blue background
  • brown background
  • neutral expression
  • low-resolution
  • blocky appearance

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be upscaled or enlarged from a smaller original

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2004
  • provenance source-name: Wayback GeoCities Newsies AIM Icon GIF Captures
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim-buddy-icon
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM install links
  • provenance cultural-slice: archived Newsies fan-made AIM icon GIFs from a GeoCities/OoCities install-link page
  • provenance topic-coverage: character icons
  • provenance era: Early-2000s Musical / Movie Fandom
  • provenance topic-coverage: fan sites
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance topic-coverage: GeoCities

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky

Subjects

  • person

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  • pixelated
  • close-up
  • light skin tone
  • dark hair
  • neutral expression
  • blue background
  • brown background
  • blocky appearance
  • low-resolution
  • visible eyes
  • visible nose
  • visible mouth
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 00:39 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)
Raw JSON
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 14, 2026 at 05:06 UTC
Run
30
Version
v3
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 (5)
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Full source records (1)
Wayback GeoCities Newsies AIM Icon GIF Captures (wayback-geocities-newsies-aim-icons-gifs)
Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Early-2000s Musical / Movie Fandom
Type
Wayback historical GeoCities fan-page crawl
Category
lteonga / nmultimedia
Alt
aimboots2
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 04:33 UTC
Rights
licensed movie/musical fan material; research/reference only by default
Slice
archived Newsies fan-made AIM icon GIFs from a GeoCities/OoCities install-link page
Original: http://geocities.com/lteonga/nmultimedia/aimboots2.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20090829184428id_/http://geocities.com/lteonga/nmultimedia/aimboots2.gif