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Black-and-white pixelated portrait of a person with shoulder-length dark hair, neutral expression, and visible facial features including eyes, nose, mouth, and ears.

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Black-and-white pixelated portrait of a person with shoulder-length dark hair, neutral expression, and visible facial features including eyes, nose, mouth, and ears.

Black-and-white pixelated portrait of a person with shoulder-length dark hair, neutral expression, and visible facial features including eyes, nose, mouth, and ears. 48×48 GIF AIM…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • head-and-shoulders crop
  • centered subject
  • plain background

Dense Caption

Static grayscale image rendered in low-resolution pixels. The subject has straight dark hair reaching below the shoulders, parted slightly off-center on the left side. Facial features include closed or squinted eyes with defined eyelids, a small rounded nose, a faintly curved mouth line suggesting neutral expression, and visible earlobes. Hair appears solid black against lighter skin tones. Background is plain white with no additional elements. Image shows heavy pixelation typical of early digital avatar art.

Description

Black-and-white pixelated portrait of a person with shoulder-length dark hair, neutral expression, and visible facial features including eyes, nose, mouth, and ears.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • 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
  • 200710111805452053222018

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated grayscale portrait person
  • shoulder-length dark hair neutral expression
  • closed eyes small nose faint mouth line
  • black-and-white earlobes visible

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original resolution based on pixel density and edge artifacts

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
  • neutral expression
  • closed eyes
  • small nose
  • faint mouth line
  • visible earlobes
  • solid black hair
  • plain white background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200710111805452053222018
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:50 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.8 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/35/354898ede90da945beb2c9213451212601b5108ca4481cca0601d84cdb7a299e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:50 UTC
Archive ID
354898ede90da945
SHA-256
354898ede90da945beb2c9213451212601b5108ca4481cca0601d84cdb7a299e
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:39 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.077005

OpenAI category scores

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Black-and-white pixelated portrait of a person with shoulder-length dark hair, neutral expression, and visible facial features including eyes, nose, mouth, and ears.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 09:19 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,958 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,090, response 761

Review tags

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  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • head-and-shoulders crop
  • centered subject
  • plain background

Dense Caption

Static grayscale image rendered in low-resolution pixels. The subject has straight dark hair reaching below the shoulders, parted slightly off-center on the left side. Facial features include closed or squinted eyes with defined eyelids, a small rounded nose, a faintly curved mouth line suggesting neutral expression, and visible earlobes. Hair appears solid black against lighter skin tones. Background is plain white with no additional elements. Image shows heavy pixelation typical of early digital avatar art.

Description

Black-and-white pixelated portrait of a person with shoulder-length dark hair, neutral expression, and visible facial features including eyes, nose, mouth, and ears.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • 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
  • 200710111805452053222018

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated grayscale portrait person
  • shoulder-length dark hair neutral expression
  • closed eyes small nose faint mouth line
  • black-and-white earlobes visible

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original resolution based on pixel density and edge artifacts

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • 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

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  • pixel art
  • grayscale
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

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  • pixelated
  • shoulder-length hair
  • neutral expression
  • closed eyes
  • small nose
  • faint mouth line
  • visible earlobes
  • solid black hair
  • plain white 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
200710111805452053222018
Archive entry
200710111805452053222018.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:50 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#200710111805452053222018.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200710111805452053222018.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016