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Static pixelated image of a person's face with dark hair and light skin, set against a blurred background with bright highlights.

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Static pixelated image of a person's face with dark hair and light skin, set against a blurred background with bright highlights.

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Animation Summary

  • static image with no visible motion changes

Composition

  • cropped face
  • partial view
  • horizontal background bands

Dense Caption

Pixelated static image shows partial view of a person's face from left side. Visible features include dark hair on top, light brown skin tone, closed eyes or low-angle gaze, and part of the nose and mouth. Background consists of indistinct horizontal bands in white, blue, yellow, and gray tones with bright overexposed areas. Image has heavy pixelation throughout, no visible text or symbols. Composition is cropped to show only upper face and neck area.

Description

  • Static pixelated image of a person's face with dark hair and light skin, set against a blurred background with bright highlights.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200802221704531290850259

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated face dark hair light skin
  • cropped partial face horizontal background bands
  • white blue yellow gray pixelated background

Preprocessing Notes

  • heavy pixelation obscures fine details

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • face
  • dark hair
  • light skin
  • closed eyes
  • white background
  • blue band
  • yellow band
  • gray band
  • overexposed highlights

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200802221704531290850259
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:15 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/28/287bab1c43cccf0f99562d3bcea8f246d4a82d9bd20b719906f1c6079075e63b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:15 UTC
Archive ID
287bab1c43cccf0f
SHA-256
287bab1c43cccf0f99562d3bcea8f246d4a82d9bd20b719906f1c6079075e63b
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:18 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.073775

OpenAI category scores

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Static pixelated image of a person's face with dark hair and light skin, set against a blurred background with bright highlights.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 02:18 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,744 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,093, response 599

Review tags

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  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • tan (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • static image with no visible motion changes

Colors

  • black
  • brown
  • tan
  • white
  • blue
  • yellow
  • gray

Composition

  • cropped face
  • partial view
  • horizontal background bands

Dense Caption

Pixelated static image shows partial view of a person's face from left side. Visible features include dark hair on top, light brown skin tone, closed eyes or low-angle gaze, and part of the nose and mouth. Background consists of indistinct horizontal bands in white, blue, yellow, and gray tones with bright overexposed areas. Image has heavy pixelation throughout, no visible text or symbols. Composition is cropped to show only upper face and neck area.

Description

  • Static pixelated image of a person's face with dark hair and light skin, set against a blurred background with bright highlights.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200802221704531290850259

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated face dark hair light skin
  • cropped partial face horizontal background bands
  • white blue yellow gray pixelated background

Preprocessing Notes

  • heavy pixelation obscures fine details

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • face
  • dark hair
  • light skin
  • closed eyes
  • white background
  • blue band
  • yellow band
  • gray band
  • overexposed highlights
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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
200802221704531290850259
Archive entry
200802221704531290850259.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:15 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#200802221704531290850259.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200802221704531290850259.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016