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Pixelated grayscale image of a smiling person with short hair, cropped to show head and upper shoulders against plain background.

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Pixelated grayscale image of a smiling person with short hair, cropped to show head and upper shoulders against plain background.

Pixelated grayscale image of a smiling person with short hair, cropped to show head and upper shoulders against plain background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fr…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

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

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixel art depicts a smiling human face with visible eyes, nose, mouth showing teeth, and short hair. The figure's head is slightly tilted right. Background is solid light gray. Image has low resolution with blocky pixels; no clothing or props are visible. Cropped to show only the upper shoulders and head. No text appears in the image.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale image of a smiling person with short hair, cropped to show head and upper shoulders against plain background.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080422145327183775673
  • 200804221455521499208328

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale smiling face pixel art
  • short hair head-and-shoulders crop
  • low-resolution gray background smile
  • pixelated human face light background

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution from original source

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • 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

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • smiling face
  • short hair
  • low-resolution pixel art
  • light background
  • cropped head-and-shoulders

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080422145327183775673
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:24 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200804221455521499208328
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:24 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/36/36c6765419eee7b78299cc76e0983ca45e95c3da773ab3ba44fec28bdafb1f44.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:24 UTC
Archive ID
36c6765419eee7b7
SHA-256
36c6765419eee7b78299cc76e0983ca45e95c3da773ab3ba44fec28bdafb1f44
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 4, 2026 at 16:43 UTC
Run
1266
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001152

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:40 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.096495

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated grayscale image of a smiling person with short hair, cropped to show head and upper shoulders against plain background.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 07:26 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
16,074 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,131, response 735

Review tags

  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • human face (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling

Colors

  • gray
  • white

Composition

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

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixel art depicts a smiling human face with visible eyes, nose, mouth showing teeth, and short hair. The figure's head is slightly tilted right. Background is solid light gray. Image has low resolution with blocky pixels; no clothing or props are visible. Cropped to show only the upper shoulders and head. No text appears in the image.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale image of a smiling person with short hair, cropped to show head and upper shoulders against plain background.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080422145327183775673
  • 200804221455521499208328

Mood

  • happy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale smiling face pixel art
  • short hair head-and-shoulders crop
  • low-resolution gray background smile
  • pixelated human face light background

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution from original source

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • 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

Style

  • pixel art

Subjects

  • human face

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • smiling face
  • short hair
  • low-resolution pixel art
  • light background
  • cropped head-and-shoulders
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Full source records (2)

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
20080422145327183775673
Archive entry
20080422145327183775673.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:24 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#20080422145327183775673.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080422145327183775673.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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
200804221455521499208328
Archive entry
200804221455521499208328.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:24 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#200804221455521499208328.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200804221455521499208328.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016