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Black-and-white pixelated image of a person's face with closed eyes, visible ear, and neck in profile view against dark background.

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Black-and-white pixelated image of a person's face with closed eyes, visible ear, and neck in profile view against dark background.

Black-and-white pixelated image of a person's face with closed eyes, visible ear, and neck in profile view against dark background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered subject
  • tight crop
  • profile orientation

Dense Caption

Monochrome 16x16 pixel grid shows partial human head and neck. Face is turned leftward; right eye appears closed or shadowed by brow. Visible features include forehead, nose bridge, cheekbone, mouth line, ear with defined lobe, and neck. Pixelation creates blocky texture across all elements. Background consists of solid dark pixels surrounding the figure. No text or additional objects present.

Description

  • Black-and-white pixelated image of a person's face with closed eyes, visible ear, and neck in profile view against dark background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation file-name (gallery): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • observation title (gallery): 20070908175424385194444
  • observation file-name (gallery): 20070908175424385194444
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated human face closed eyes profile
  • monochrome ear neck pixel art
  • black and white 16x16 pixel grid
  • profile view dark background

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected
  • static image only

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

  • human face
  • ear
  • neck

Wordwall

  • 16x16 pixel grid
  • black-and-white
  • closed eyes
  • profile view
  • ear visible
  • neck visible
  • pixelated texture
  • dark background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070908175424385194444
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:44 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.9 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/08/08bee0ea065daa361d25fad3d0ddcaa4fa1b236bca8525a284fc4bc8de7d34c3.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:44 UTC
Archive ID
08bee0ea065daa36
SHA-256
08bee0ea065daa361d25fad3d0ddcaa4fa1b236bca8525a284fc4bc8de7d34c3
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:51 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.106507

OpenAI category scores

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Black-and-white pixelated image of a person's face with closed eyes, visible ear, and neck in profile view against dark background.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 00:30 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,532 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,084, response 793

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • serene (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • monochrome (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • ear (subject, 0.80)
  • human face (subject, 0.80)
  • neck (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • centered subject
  • tight crop
  • profile orientation

Dense Caption

Monochrome 16x16 pixel grid shows partial human head and neck. Face is turned leftward; right eye appears closed or shadowed by brow. Visible features include forehead, nose bridge, cheekbone, mouth line, ear with defined lobe, and neck. Pixelation creates blocky texture across all elements. Background consists of solid dark pixels surrounding the figure. No text or additional objects present.

Description

  • Black-and-white pixelated image of a person's face with closed eyes, visible ear, and neck in profile view against dark background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation file-name (gallery): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • observation title (gallery): 20070908175424385194444
  • observation file-name (gallery): 20070908175424385194444
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • neutral
  • serene

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated human face closed eyes profile
  • monochrome ear neck pixel art
  • black and white 16x16 pixel grid
  • profile view dark background

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected
  • static image only

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

  • pixel art
  • monochrome
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • human face
  • ear
  • neck

Visually Supported Entities

  • human face
  • ear
  • neck

Wordwall

  • 16x16 pixel grid
  • black-and-white
  • closed eyes
  • profile view
  • ear visible
  • neck visible
  • pixelated texture
  • dark 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
20070908175424385194444
Archive entry
20070908175424385194444.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:44 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#20070908175424385194444.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070908175424385194444.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016