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Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with light hair, smiling face, and dark clothing against a gradient background.

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Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with light hair, smiling face, and dark clothing against a gradient background.

Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with light hair, smiling face, and dark clothing against a gradient background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIc…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up portrait
  • asymmetrical framing
  • light hair on dark background

Dense Caption

Grayscale static icon shows a close-up portrait of an individual with shoulder-length light-toned hair. The subject's right eye is visible as a solid dark shape; the left eye area appears lighter due to pixelation. A subtle smile forms on the lips, and the mouth region contains distinct white pixels indicating teeth or reflection. Dark clothing covers the lower portion of the frame. Background transitions from black at top-left to light gray at bottom-right with no discernible patterns. Pixelation is consistent across all areas; no text or symbols are visible.

Description

  • Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with light hair, smiling face, and dark clothing against a gradient background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070907181125645002170

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person smiling grayscale pixelated
  • shoulder-length hair dark clothing
  • gradient background close-up portrait
  • subtle smile teeth reflection

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected in static image

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

  • black-and-white
  • pixelated
  • shoulder-length hair
  • subtle smile
  • dark clothing
  • gradient background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070907181125645002170
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.1 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/03/03e90ff437d4c5151a9ac3c906ab236f08c3912329cb227ae083030a558629f8.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 UTC
Archive ID
03e90ff437d4c515
SHA-256
03e90ff437d4c5151a9ac3c906ab236f08c3912329cb227ae083030a558629f8
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 28, 2026 at 00:11 UTC
Run
1201
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000043

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 27, 2026 at 05:15 UTC
Run
1196
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.010239

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:16 UTC
Run
106
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
0.355597

OpenAI category scores

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Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with light hair, smiling face, and dark clothing against a gradient background.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 00:07 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,697 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,093, response 725

Review tags

  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • close-up portrait
  • asymmetrical framing
  • light hair on dark background

Dense Caption

Grayscale static icon shows a close-up portrait of an individual with shoulder-length light-toned hair. The subject's right eye is visible as a solid dark shape; the left eye area appears lighter due to pixelation. A subtle smile forms on the lips, and the mouth region contains distinct white pixels indicating teeth or reflection. Dark clothing covers the lower portion of the frame. Background transitions from black at top-left to light gray at bottom-right with no discernible patterns. Pixelation is consistent across all areas; no text or symbols are visible.

Description

  • Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with light hair, smiling face, and dark clothing against a gradient background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070907181125645002170

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person smiling grayscale pixelated
  • shoulder-length hair dark clothing
  • gradient background close-up portrait
  • subtle smile teeth reflection

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected in static image

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
  • grayscale

Subjects

  • person

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • black-and-white
  • pixelated
  • shoulder-length hair
  • subtle smile
  • dark clothing
  • gradient 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
20070907181125645002170
Archive entry
20070907181125645002170.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 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#20070907181125645002170.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070907181125645002170.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016