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

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

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

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • tight crop
  • head and upper torso
  • solid black background

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixel art image showing partial upper body of a person. Visible features include short dark hair, closed eyes (or squinting), nose, mouth in neutral position, ear on right side, and neck. Background is solid black. Image has low resolution with blocky pixels typical of early digital graphics. No clothing details visible beyond shoulder area. Composition crops tightly around head and upper torso.

Description

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

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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 Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20071020210547603266453
  • franksicons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixel art celebrity portrait
  • black background head crop
  • pixelated neutral expression face
  • low resolution grayscale buddy icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • low resolution
  • blocky pixels

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
  • pixelated
  • black background
  • short dark hair
  • closed eyes
  • neutral mouth
  • visible ear
  • neck

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071020210547603266453
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.4 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/2b/2b0e5e4f3a669d823de10d1cc3c72ae06115f4d7f9b9b96e05fabb9d4f37ab2c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 UTC
Archive ID
2b0e5e4f3a669d82
SHA-256
2b0e5e4f3a669d823de10d1cc3c72ae06115f4d7f9b9b96e05fabb9d4f37ab2c
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:28 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.075485

OpenAI category scores

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

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 11:41 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,562 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,092, response 670

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • gray
  • black

Composition

  • tight crop
  • head and upper torso
  • solid black background

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixel art image showing partial upper body of a person. Visible features include short dark hair, closed eyes (or squinting), nose, mouth in neutral position, ear on right side, and neck. Background is solid black. Image has low resolution with blocky pixels typical of early digital graphics. No clothing details visible beyond shoulder area. Composition crops tightly around head and upper torso.

Description

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

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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 Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20071020210547603266453
  • franksicons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixel art celebrity portrait
  • black background head crop
  • pixelated neutral expression face
  • low resolution grayscale buddy icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • low resolution
  • blocky pixels

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

  • person

Visually Supported Entities

  • celebrities

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • black background
  • short dark hair
  • closed eyes
  • neutral mouth
  • visible ear
  • neck
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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
20071020210547603266453
Archive entry
20071020210547603266453.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 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#20071020210547603266453.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071020210547603266453.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016