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Pixelated grayscale portrait of a person with short dark hair, neutral expression, and visible neck against light background.

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Pixelated grayscale portrait of a person with short dark hair, neutral expression, and visible neck against light background.

Pixelated grayscale portrait of a person with short dark hair, neutral expression, and visible neck against light background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Franks…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered subject
  • cropped at shoulders

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixel art depicts a human face and upper torso. The subject has short dark hair styled in a rounded shape covering the top and sides of the head. Facial features include two eyes, a nose, mouth, and chin; all rendered with low-resolution grayscale pixels showing no distinct color separation beyond black, white, and gray tones. The neck is visible below the jawline. Background consists of light gray pixelated areas without discernible patterns or objects. No text, clothing details, or props are present in the image.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale portrait of a person with short dark hair, neutral expression, and visible neck against light background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixel art human face
  • short dark hair neutral expression
  • pixelated grayscale portrait
  • human face upper torso

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original resolution

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

  • celebrities

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixel art
  • short dark hair
  • neutral expression
  • visible neck
  • light background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2008012720134725281280
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:12 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/0c/0c73799e38a54627a41bffada195cb5fecfc7f9242858ab8ba5819baeead5a05.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:12 UTC
Archive ID
0c73799e38a54627
SHA-256
0c73799e38a54627a41bffada195cb5fecfc7f9242858ab8ba5819baeead5a05
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:56 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.094716

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated grayscale portrait of a person with short dark hair, neutral expression, and visible neck against light background.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 13:25 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,133 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,083, response 647

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • human face (subject, 0.80)
  • upper torso (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • centered subject
  • cropped at shoulders

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixel art depicts a human face and upper torso. The subject has short dark hair styled in a rounded shape covering the top and sides of the head. Facial features include two eyes, a nose, mouth, and chin; all rendered with low-resolution grayscale pixels showing no distinct color separation beyond black, white, and gray tones. The neck is visible below the jawline. Background consists of light gray pixelated areas without discernible patterns or objects. No text, clothing details, or props are present in the image.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale portrait of a person with short dark hair, neutral expression, and visible neck against light background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixel art human face
  • short dark hair neutral expression
  • pixelated grayscale portrait
  • human face upper torso

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original resolution

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
  • grayscale

Subjects

  • human face
  • upper torso

Visually Supported Entities

  • celebrities

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixel art
  • short dark hair
  • neutral expression
  • visible neck
  • light 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
2008012720134725281280
Archive entry
2008012720134725281280.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:12 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#2008012720134725281280.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2008012720134725281280.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016